Publications

Publications

2023

​Jones, B.M., Rubin, B.E.R., Dudchenko, O., Kingwell, C.J., et al. 2023. Convergent and complementary selection shaped gains and losses of eusociality in sweat bees. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-13.

Gernat, T., Jagla, T., Jones, B.M., Middendorf, M., and Robinson, G.E. 2023. Automated monitoring of honey bees with barcodes and artificial intelligence reveals two distinct social networks from a single affiliative behavior. Scientific Reports, 13(1):1541.

2020

​Jones, B.M., Rao, V.D., Gernat, T., Jagla, T., Cash-Ahmed, A., Rubin, B.E.R., Comi, T.J., Bhogale, S., Husain, S.S., Blatti III, C., Middendorf, M., Sinha, S., Chandrasekaran, S., and Robinson, G.E. 2020. Individual differences in honey bee (Apis melliferia) behavior enabled by plasticity in brain gene regulatory networks. eLife, 9:e62850.

Sinha, S., Jones, B.M., Traniello, I.M., Bukhari, S.A., Halfon, M.S., Hofmann, H.A., Huang, S., Katz, P.S., Keagy, J., Lynch, V., Sokolowski, M.B., Stubbs, L., Tabe-Bordbar, S., Wolfner, M.F., and Robinson, G.E. 2020. Behavior-related gene regulatory networks: A new level of organization in the brain. PNAS, 117(38):23270-23279.

Kapheim, K.M., Jones, B.M., Pan, H., Li, C., Harpur, B.A., Kent, C.F., Zayed, A., Ioannidis, P., Waterhouse, R.M., Kingwell, C., Stolle, E., Avalos, A., Zhang, G., McMillan, W.O., and Wcislo, W.T. 2020. Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee. PNAS, 117(24):13615-13625.

Jones, B.M., Seymoure, B.M., Comi, T.J., and Loew, E.R. 2020. Species and sex differences in eye morphometry and visual responsivity of two crepuscular sweat bee species (Megalopta spp.,Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130(3):533-544.

Geffre, A.C., Gernat, T., Harwood, G.P., Jones, B.M., Gysi, D.M., Hamilton, A.R., Bonning, B.C., Toth, A.L., Robinson, G.E., and Dolezal, A.G. (2020). Honey bee virus causes context-dependent changes in host social behavior. PNAS, 117(19):10406-10413.

Kapheim, K.M., Jones, B.M., Søvik., E, Stolle, E., Waterhouse, R.M., Bloch, G., and Ben-Shahar, Y. (2020). Brain microRNAs among social and solitary bees. Royal Society Open Science, 7(7):200517.

Gernat, T. Jagla, T., Jones, B.M., Middendorf, M, and Robinson, G.E. (2020). Automated monitoring of animal behaviour with barcodes and convolutional neural networks. bioRxiv, 2020.11.27.401760.
 

2019

Kapheim, K.M., Pan, H., Li, C., Blatti III, C., Harpur, B.A., Ioannidis, P., Jones, B.M., Kent, C.F., Ruzzante, L., Sloofman, L. et al. 2019. Draft genome assembly and population genetics of an agricultural pollinator, the solitary alkali bee (Halictidae: Nomia melanderi). G3, 9(3):625-634.

Rubin, B.E.R., Jones, B.M., Hunt, B.G., Kocher, S.D. Rate variation in the evolution of non-coding DNA associated with social evolution in bees.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1777):20180247.

2018

Jones, B.M., and G.E. Robinson. 2018. Genetic accommodation and the role of ancestral plasticity in the evolution of insect eusociality. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(23):jeb153163.

2017

Jones, B.M., Kingwell, C.J., Wcislo, W.T., and G.E. Robinson.  2017.  Caste-biased gene expression in a facultatively eusocial bee suggests a role for genetic accommodation in the evolution of eusociality. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284:20162228.

2016

Corby-Harris, V., Meador, C.A.D., Snyder, L.A., Schwan, M.R., Maes, P., Jones, B.M., Walton, A., Anderson, K.E. 2016.  Transcriptional, translational, and physiological signatures of undernourished honey bees (Apis mellifera) suggest a role for hormonal factors in hypopharyngeal gland degradation. Journal of Insect Physiology, 85:65-75.

2015

Jones, B.M., Wcislo, W.T., and G.E. Robinson. 2015. Developmental transcriptome for a facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis. G3: Genes| Genomes| Genetics, 5(10):2127-2135.

2014

Corby-Harris, V., Jones, B.M., Walton, A., Schwan, M., and K.E. Anderson. 2014. Transcriptional markers of sub-optimal nutrition in developing Apis mellifera nurse workers. BMC Genomics, 12:134.

2013

Jones, B.M., Leonard, A.S., Papaj, D.R. and W. Gronenberg. 2013. Plasticity of the Worker Bumblebee Brain in Relation to Age and Rearing Environment. Brain Behav Evol, 82(4): 250-261.

Anderson, K.E., Sheehan, T.H., Mott, B.M., Maes, P., Snyder, L., Schwan, M.R., Walton, A., Jones, B.M., Corby-Harris, V. 2013. Microbial Ecology of the Hive and Pollination Landscape: Bacterial Associates from Floral Nectar, the Alimentary Tract and Stored Food of Honey Bees (Apis meliifera). PLoS ONE, 8(12): p. e83125. ​