Recent Publications

“Post-invasion selection acts on standing genetic variation despite a severe founding bottleneck.”

Kathleen A. Dogantzis, Rika Raffiudin, Ramadhani Eka Putra, Ismail Shaleh, Ida M. Conflitti, Mateus Pepinelli, John Roberts, Michael Holmes, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Amro Zayed, Rosalyn Gloag. Current Biology 34(6):P1349-1356.E4. 2024

“Thrice out of Asia and the adaptive radiation of the western honey bee.”

Kathleen A. Dogantzis, Tanushree Tiwari, Ida M. Conflitti, Alivia Dey, Harland M. Patch, Elliud M. Muli, Lionel Garnery, Charles W. Whitfield, Eckart Stolle, Abdulaziz S. Alqarni, Michael H. Allsopp, Amro Zayed. Science Advances 7(49):eabj2151. 2021.

“Eusociality influences the strength of negative selection on insect genomics.”

Mohammad A. Imrit, Kathleen A. Dogantzis, Brock A. Harpur, Amro Zayed. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287:20201512. 2020.

“A single gene causes thelytokous parthenogenesis, the defining feature of the cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis.”

Boris Yagound, Kathleen A. Dogantzis, Amro Zayed, Julianne Lim, Paul Broekhuyse, Emily J. Remnant, Madeleine Beekman, Michael H. Allsopp, Sarah E. Aamidor, Orly Dim, Gabriele Buchmann, Benjamin P. Oldroyd. Current Biology 30(12):2248-2259. 2020.

“Recent advances in population and quantitative genomics of honey bees.”

Kathleen A. Dogantzis, Amro Zayed. Current Opinions in Insect Science 31:93-98. 2019.

“Insects with similar social complexity show convergent patterns of adaptive molecular evolution.”

Kathleen A. Dogantzis, Brock A. Harpur, André Rodrigues, Laura Beani, Amy L. Toth, Amro Zayed. Scientific Reports 8(1):10388. 2018.

“Genomic footprint of evolution of eusociality in bees: floral food use and CYPome “blooms”.”

Reed M. Johnson, Brock A. Harpur, Kathleen A. Dogantzis, Amro Zayed, May R. Berenbaum. Insectes Sociaux 65(3):445–454. 2018.

“Prelude to a panzootic: Gene flow and immunogenetic variation in northern little brown myotis vulnerable to bat white-nose syndrome.”

Christina M. Davy, Michael E. Donaldson, Yessica Rico, Cori L. Lausen, Kathleen Dogantzis, Kyle Ritchie, Craig K.R. Willis, Douglas W. Burles,Thomas S.Jung, Scott McBurney, Allysia Park, Donald F. McAlpine, Karen J. Vanderwolf, and Christopher J. Kyle. FACETS. 2: 690–714. 2017.

“Honey Bee: Management.”

Kathleen A. Dogantzis, Brock A. Harpur, Amro Zayed. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. 2020