Pre-prints / under review
  • Treanore, E. Medero, AM., Garcia, J., Amsalem E. The effect of pollen diet composition and quantity on diapause survival and performance in an annual pollinator (Bombus impatiens)
  • Derstine N, Galbraith, D., Villar, G., Amsalem E. Differential gene expression underlying the biosynthesis of Dufour’s gland signals in Bombus impatiens
  • K. F. Santos, P.K.F., Murray, C.S., Amsalem, E. Sexual production is regulated by the brood in Bombus impatiens colonies
  • Orlova, M., Porter, M., Hines, H.M., Amsalem, E. Symptomatic infection with Vairimorpha bombi decreases diapause survival in a wild bumble bee species (Bombus griseocollis)


2023
  • Seltzer, R., Domer, A., Bodner, L., Bouchebti, S., Malka, M., Amsalem, E., Levin, E. The impact of mating on the physiological response of bumble bee gynes to CO2 narcosis (Accepted, Journal of Apicultural Research, Feb 2023)
  • Barie, K., Amsalem E. The influence of the social environment on larval development and resulting caste in Bombus impatiens (Journal of Animal Behavior, Accepted).

2022

  • Cressman, A., Amsalem, E. Impacts and mechanisms of CO2 narcosis in bumble bees: Narcosis depends on dose, caste and mating status and is not induced by anoxia. Journal of Experimental Biology 226 (1), jeb244746
  • Barie, K., Levin, E., Amsalem, E. “CO2 narcosis induces a metabolic shift mediated via juvenile hormone in Bombus impatiens gynes”. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 103831
  • Treanore, E., Amsalem E. (2022). “Examining the individual and additive effects of cold storage and CO2 narcosis on queen survival and reproduction in bumble bees”. Journal of Insect Physiology 139, 104394
  • Orlova, M. Villar, G., Hefetz, A., Millar G. J., Amsalem, E. (2022). “A gland of many uses: A diversity of compounds in the labial glands of the bumble bee Bombus impatiens suggests multiple signaling functions”. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 48(3):270-282.


2021
  • Santos, P.K.F, Starkey, J., Galbraith, D., Amsalem, E. (2022). “The effect of the brood and the queen on early gene expression in bumble bee workers' brains”. Scientific reports 12 (1), 1-12
  • Orlova, M., Amsalem, E. (2021). “Bumble bee queen pheromones are context-dependent” Scientific Reports 11 (1), 1-7.
  • Treanore, E., Barie, K., Derstine, N., Gadebusch, K., Orlova, M., Porter, M. Purnell, F., Amsalem, E. (2021). “Optimizing laboratory rearing of a key pollinator, Bombus impatiens”. Insects 12 (8), 673.
  • Derstine, N., Villar, G., Hefetz, A., Millar, J., & Amsalem, E. (2021). “Dufour’s gland analysis reveals caste and physiology specific signals in Bombus impatiens”. Scientific reports 11 (1), 1-13

2020
  • Treanore, E. Amsalem E. (2020). “The effect of intrinsic physiological traits on diapause survival and their underlying mechanisms in an annual bee species Bombus impatiens”. Conservation Physiology 8(1), coaa103
  • Amsalem E. (2020). “One problem, many solutions: Female reproduction is regulated by chemically diverse pheromones across insects”. Advances in Insect Physiology 59, 131-182
  • Orlova, M., Treanore, E., Amsalem E. (2020). “Built to change: dominance strategy changes with life stage in a primitively eusocial insect”. Behavioral Ecology 31 (6), 1361-1368
  • Treanore, E., Derstine, N., Amsalem E. (2020). “What can mechanisms underlying derived traits tell us about the evolution of social behavior?”. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, saaa033
  • Orlova, M., Starkey, J. A., & Amsalem, E. (2020) “A small family business: synergistic and additive effects of the queen and the brood on worker reproduction in a primitively eusocial bee. Journal of Experimental Biology 223 (3), jeb217547
  • Treanore, E. D., Kiner, J. M., Kerner, M. E., & Amsalem, E. (2020). Shift in worker physiology and gene expression pattern from reproductive to diapause-like with colony age in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens. Journal of Experimental Biology 223 (9) jeb218768

2019
  • Orlova, M., & Amsalem, E. (2019). “Context matters: plasticity in response to pheromones regulating reproduction and collective behavior in social Hymenoptera”. Current Opinion in Insect Science 35, 69-76.
  • Starkey, J. A., Derstine, N., & Amsalem, E. (2019). “Do bumble bees produce brood pheromone?” Journal of Chemical Ecology 45(9), 725-734.
  • Starkey, J. A., Brown, A., & Amsalem, E. (2019). “The road to sociality: Brood regulation of worker reproduction in the simple eusocial bee Bombus impatiens”. Animal Behavior 154, 57-65.

2018
  • Amsalem, E. & Hefetz, A. (2018). “Pheromone-mediation of female reproduction and reproductive dominance in social species”. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 44(9), 747-749.
  • Amsalem, E. & Grozinger, C. M. (2018). “The importance of holistically evaluating data: a comment on Holman”. 2018. Behavioral Ecology, 29(6), 1210-1211.
  • Cohanim, A. B., Amsalem, E. Saad, R., Shoemaker, D. D., & Privman, E. (2018). “Evolution of olfactory functions on the fire ant social chromosome”. Genome Biology and Evolution, 10(11), 2947-2960.

2017
  • Amsalem, E., Padilla, M., Schreiber, P., Altman, N., Hefetz, A., & Grozinger, C. M. (2017). “Do bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) queens signal their reproductive and mating status to their workers?” Journal of Chemical Ecology, 43(6), 563-572.
  • Amsalem, E. & Grozinger, C. M. (2017). “Evaluating the molecular, physiological and behavioral impacts of CO2 narcosis in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens)”. Journal of Insect Physiology, 101, 57-65.

2009-2016
  • Padilla, M. J., Amsalem, E., Hefetz, A., Grozinger, C. M., & Altman, N. S. (2016). “Chemical communication is not sufficient to explain reproductive inhibition in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens”. Royal Society Open Science, 3(10), 160576.
  • Amsalem, E., Orlova, M., & Grozinger, C. M. (2015). “A conserved class of queen pheromones? Re-evaluating the evidence in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens)”. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 282(1817), 20151800.
  • Amsalem, E., Galbraith, D. A., Cnaani, J., Teal, P. E., & Grozinger, C. M. (2015). “Conservation and modification of genetic and physiological toolkits underpinning diapause in bumble bee queens”. Molecular Ecology, 24(22), 5596-615.
  • Amsalem, E., Grozinger, C. M., Padilla, M. J., & Hefetz, A. (2015). “The physiological and genomic bases of bumble bee social behavior”. Advances in Insect Physiology, 48, 37-93.
  • Amsalem, E., Malka, O., Grozinger, C. M., & Hefetz, A. (2014). “Exploring the role of juvenile hormone and vitellogenin in reproduction and social behavior in bumble bees”. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14(1), 45.
  • Amsalem, E., Teal, P., Grozinger, C. M., & Hefetz, A. (2014). “Precocene-I inhibits juvenile hormone biosynthesis, ovarian activation, aggression and alters sterility signal production in bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) workers”. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 217(17), 3178-85.
  • Amsalem, E., Kiefer, J., Schulz, S., & Hefetz, A. (2014). “The effect of caste and reproductive state on the chemistry of the cephalic labial gland secretion of Bombus terrestris”. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 40(8), 900-12.
  • Shpigler, H., Amsalem, E., Huang, Z. Y., Cohen, M., Siegel, A. J., Hefetz, A., & Bloch, G. (2014). “Gonadotropic and physiological functions of juvenile hormone in bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) workers”. PloS one, 9(6), e100650.
  • Amsalem, E., Shamia, D., & Hefetz, A. (2013). “Aggression or ovarian development as determinants of reproductive dominance in B. terrestris: interpretation using a simulation model”. Insectes Sociaux, 60(2), 213-22.
  • Amsalem, E., Shpigler, H., Bloch, G., & Hefetz, A. (2013). “Dufour's gland secretion, sterility and foraging behavior: correlated behavior traits in bumble bee workers”. Journal of Insect Physiology, 59(12), 1250-5.
  • Amsalem, E., & Hefetz, A. (2011). “The effect of group size on the interplay between dominance and reproduction in Bombus terrestris”. PloS One, 6(3), e18238.
  • Amsalem, E., & Hefetz, A. (2010). “The appeasement effect of sterility signaling in dominance contests among B. terrestris workers”. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64(10), 1685-94.
  • Amsalem, E., Twele, R., Francke, W., & Hefetz, A. (2009). “Reproductive competition in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris: do workers advertise sterility?” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological sciences, 276(1660), 1295-304.