PUBLICATIONS

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87. Sumner, S., Favreau, E. Geist*, K., Toth, A.L., and Rehan, S.M. Molecular patterns and processes in evolving sociality: Lessons from insects. Invited review for: Special Issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. In press.

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86. Favreau, E., Geist, K.*, Sumner, S., and Toth, A.L. and, Rehan, S.A. 2022. Co-expression gene networks and machine-learning algorithms unveil a core genetic toolkit for reproductive division of labour in rudimentary insect societies. In press, Genome Biology and Evolution.

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85. Cass, R.P., Hodgson, E.W., O’Neal, M.E., Toth, A.L., St. Clair, A.L*. and Dolezal, A.G.* Beekeeper, farmer, and landowner attitudes and aspirations for bee conservation in the Midwestern US. Journal of Integrated Pest Management.

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84. +Riojas-Schnier, J. and Toth, A.L. 2022. Insights into insect cognition from mirror-induced behavior in paper wasps.  Behaviour, in press.

83. *St. Clair, A.L., *Zhang, G., *Dolezal, A.G., O’Neal, M.E., and Toth, A.L. 2022. Agroecosystem landscape diversity shapes wild bee communities independent of managed honey bee presence. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 327: 107826.

82. *Zhang, G., *St. Clair, *Dolezal, A.G., Toth, A.L., O’Neal, M.E. 2021. Can Native Plants Mitigate Climate-related Forage Dearth for Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)? Journal of Economic Entomology, toab202.

81. *Walton, A. and Toth. A.L. 2021. Resource limitation, intra‐group aggression and brain neuropeptide expression in a social wasp. Functional Ecology 35 (10), 2241-2252

80. *Borchardt, K.E., Morales, C.L., Aizen, M.A., and Toth, A.L. 2021. Plant–pollinator conservation from the perspective of systems-ecology. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 47: 154-161.

79. *Walton, A., Toth, A.L., and *Dolezal, A.G. 2021. Developmental environment shapes honeybee worker response to virus infection. Scientific Reports 11 (1): 1-12.             

78. Teixeira, E.W., de Paiva Daibert, R.M., Júnior, L.A.G., da Silva, M.V.G.B., Florencio Alves, M.L.T.M., Evans, J.D., Toth, A.L. 2021. Transcriptomic analysis suggests candidate genes for hygienic behavior in African-derived Apis mellifera honeybees. Apidologie, 52 (2): 447-462.

77. DeGrandi-Hoffman, G., Corby-Harris, V., Carroll, M., Toth, A.L., Gage, S., deJong, E.W, Graham, H., Chambers, M., Meador, C., Obernesser, B. 2021. The importance of time and place: Nutrient composition and utilization of seasonal pollens by European honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Insects 12 (3): 235.

76. *Zhang, G., *St. Clair, A.L., *Dolezal, A.G., Toth, A.L., and O’Neal, M.E. 2021.  North American Prairie Is a Source of Pollen for Managed Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of Insect Science, 21 (1): 17.

75. Shell, W.A., Steffen, M.A., Pare, H.K., Seetharam, A.S., Severin, A.J., Toth, A.L., and Rehan, SA. 2021. Sociality sculpts similar patterns of molecular evolution in two independently evolved lineages of eusocial bees. Communications Biology 4 (1): 1-9.

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74. +Pritchard, Z.A., *Hendriksma, H., *St. Clair, A.L., *Stein, D.S., *Dolezal, A.G., O’Neal, M.E., and Toth, A.L. 2021. Do viruses from honey bees endanger wild bees in native prairie habitats?  Environmental Entomology. 50 (2): 455-466.

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73. Toth, A.L. and Zayed, A. 2020. The honey bee genome: what has it been good for?  Invited review for Apidologie, 50th anniversary special issue, In press.

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72. *St. Clair, A.L., *Dolezal, A.G., O’Neal, M.E., and Toth, A.L. 2020. Pan traps for tracking honey bee activity-density: a case study in soybeans. Insects. 11(6): 366.

71. *Walton, A., Sheehan, M.J., and Toth, A.L. 2020. Going wild for functional genomics: RNA interference as a tool to study gene-behavior associations in diverse species and ecological contexts. Hormones and Behavior. 124: 104774.

70. *Stein, D.S., Debinski, D.M., Pleasants, J.M., and Toth, A.L. 2020. Evaluating native bee communities and nutrition in managed grasslands.  Environmental Entomology. 49: 717-725.

69. *Geffre, A.C., Gernat, T., Harwood, G., Jones, B.C., Hamilton, A.R., Bonning, B.C., Toth, A.L., Robinson, G.E., *Dolezal, A.G. 2020. Honey bee virus causes context-dependent changes in host social behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 117 (19): 10406-10413.

68. *Zhang, G., *St. Clair, A.L., *Dolezal, A.G., Toth, A.L., and O’Neal, M.E. 2020. Honey bee pollen forage in a highly-cultivated agroecosystem: relationships to landscape complexity and virus resistance. Journal of Economic Entomology. 113:1062-1072.

67. *St. Clair, A.L., *Dolezal, A.G., *Zhang, G., O’Neal, M.E., and Toth, A.L. 2020. Diversified farming in a monoculture landscape: effects on honey bee health and wild bee communities. Environmental Entomology. 49: 753-754.

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66. Dolezal, A.G.*, St. Clair, A.*, Zhang, G., Toth, A.L., and O'Neal, M. 2019. Native habitat mitigates feast/famine conditions faced by honey bees in agricultural landscapes.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, in press.

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65. Toth, A.L. and Robinson, G.E. 2019. Genomics of Social Insects.  In Encyclopedia of Social Insects, in press.

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64. Manfredini, F., Arbetman, M., Toth, A.L. 2019. A potential role for phenotypic plasticity in invasions and declines of social insects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7: 375.

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63. Rutter, L.*, Carrillo-Tripp, J.*, Bonning, B.C., Cook, D., Toth, A.L., Dolezal, A.G.* 2019. Transcriptomic responses to diet quality and viral infection in Apis mellifera. BMC Genomics 20 (1): 412

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62. Rubenstein, D.R., Ågren, J.A., Carbone, L., Elde, N.C., Hoekstra, H.E., Kapheim, K.M., Keller, L., Moreau, C.S., Toth, A.L., Yeaman, S., Hofmann, H.A. 2019. Coevolution of genome architecture and social behavior. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34(9): 844.

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61. Hendriksma, H.P.*, Toth, A.L., Shafir, S. 2019. Individual and colony level foraging decisions of bumble bees and honey bees in relation to balancing of nutrient needs. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 177.

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60. *Dolezal, A.G., *Carrillo-Tripp, J., Judd, T.M., Miller, W.A., Bonning, B.C., Toth, A.L. 2019. Interacting stressors matter: diet quality and virus infection in honeybee health. Royal Society Open Science, 6(2): 181803.

59. Suryanarayanan, S., Kleinman, D.L. Gratton, C., Toth, A.L., et al. (8 more authors) 2018. Collaboration matters: honey bee health as a transdisciplinary model for understanding real-world complexity.  BioScience, 68 (12): 990-995

58. *Walton, A., *Dolezal, A.G., +Bakken, M., and Toth, A.L. 2018. Hungry for the queen: Nutritional environment affects honey bee worker pheromone response in a life stage dependent manner.  Functional Ecology, 32 (12): 2699-2706.

57. Rehan, S.A., Steffen, M., *Fay, C.R., Glastad, K., Hunt, B.G., and Toth, A.L. 2018. Conserved genes underlie phenotypic plasticity in an incipiently social bee. Genome Biology and Evolution 10 (10): 2749-2758.

56. Miller, S.A., Bluher, S.E., Bell, E., Cini, A., DaSilva, R.C., de Souza, A.R., et al. (20 more authors), A.L. Toth, and M.J. Sheehan. 2018. WASPNest: A worldwide assessment of social polistine nesting behavior.  Ecology, 99 (10), 2405-2405.

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55. Dogzhantis, K.A, Harpur, B.A., Rodrigues, A., Beani, L., Toth, A.L., and Zayed, A. 2018. Insects with similar social complexity show convergent patterns of molecular evolution. Scientific Reports 8:10388.

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54. Manfredini, F., Brown, M.J.F., and Toth, A.L. 2018.  Candidate genes for cooperation and aggression in Polistes dominula wasps. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 204: 449-463.

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53. *Dolezal, A.G. and Toth, A.L. 2018. Feedbacks between nutrition and disease in honey bee health. Current Opinion in Insect Science 26: 114-119.

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52. Branstetter, M., Childers, A.K., Cox-Foster, D., Hopper, K.R., Kapheim, K.M., Toth, A.L., Worley, K.C. 2017. Genomes of Hymenoptera. Current Opinion in Insect Science 25: 65-75.

51. Weiner, S.A.*, Geffre, A.C.*, and Toth, A.L. 2017. Functional genomics in the wild: A case study with paper wasps shows challenges and prospects for RNA-interference in ecological systems. Genome, 2017: 1-7.

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50. Toth, A.L. and Dolezal, A.G.* 2017. Editorial Overview: Integrative approaches to understanding insect sociality: Why physiology is still highly relevant. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 22: viii.

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49. Jandt, J.M.*, Suryanarayanan, S., Hermanson, J., Jeanne, R.L., Toth, A.L.  2017. Maternal and nourishment factors interact to influence offspring developmental trajectories in social wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284 (1857): 20170651.

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48. Berens, A.J.*, Tibbetts, E.A., and Toth, A.L. 2017. Cognitive specialization for learning faces is associated with shifts in the brain transcriptome of a social wasp. Journal of Experimental Biology. 220 (12): 2149-2153.

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47. Toth, A.L. 2017. To reproduce or work? Insect castes emerge from socially induced changes in nutrition-related genes. “News and Views” piece for Molecular Ecology, 26 (11): 2839-2841.

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46. Geffre, A.C.*, Liu, R.*, Manfredini, F. Beani, L., Kathirithamby, J., Grozinger, C.M., and Toth, A.L.  2017. Transcriptomics of an extended phenotype: parasite manipulation of wasp social behavior correlates with shifting expression of caste-related genes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284 (1852): 20170029.

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45. Toth, A.L., Rehan. S.M. 2017. Molecular evolution of insect sociality: an eco-evo-devo perspective. Annual Review of Entomology. 62: 419-442.

44. Dolezal, A.G.*, Scavo, N.A.+, Hendrix, S., Harris, M., O’Neal, M., Toth, A.L. 2016. Honey bee viruses in wild bees: viral Prevalence, loads, and experimental inoculation PLoS One.  11 (11): e0166190.

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43. Toth, A.L., Sumner, S., Jeanne, R.L. 2016. Patterns of longevity across a sociality gradient in vespid wasps. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 16: 28-35.

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42. Dolezal. A.G.*, Carrillo-Tripp, J.*, Miller, W.A., Bonning, B.C. Toth, A.L.   2016. Intensively cultivated landscape and Varroa mite infestation are associated with reduced honey bee nutritional state. PLoS One. 11 (4): e0153531.

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41. Smith, G.W.+, Debinski, D.M, Scavo, N.A.+, Lange, C.J.+, Delaney, J.T., Moranz, R.A., Miller, J.R., Engle, D.M. and Toth, A.L. 2016. Bee abundance and nutritional status in relation to grassland management practices in an agricultural landscape.  Environmental Entomology. 45 (2): 338-347.

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40. Carrillo-Tripp, J.*, Dolezal, A.G.*, Goblirsch, M.J., Miller, W.A., Toth, A.L., and Bonning, B.C.  2016. In vivo and in vitro infection dynamics of honey bee viruses.  Scientific Reports 6: 22265.

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39. Walton, A.* and Toth, A.L. 2016. Individual variation in honey bee behavior shows hallmarks of personality.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.  70 (7): 999.

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38. Standage, D.S., Berens, A.J., Glastad, K., Severin, A.J., Brendel, V., and Toth, A.L. 2016. Genome, transcriptome, and methylome sequencing of a primitively social wasp reveal a dramatic reduction in DNA methylation in a social insect. Molecular Ecology. 25 (8): 1769-1784.

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37. Berens, A.J., Tibbetts, E.A., and Toth, A.L. 2016. Candidate genes for individual recognition in Polistes fuscatus paper wasps.  Journal of Comparative Physiology A.  202: 115-129.

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36. Durant, D.R., Berens, A.J.*, Toth, A.L., and Rehan, S.A. 2015. Transcriptional profiling of overwintering gene expression in the small carpenter bee Ceratina calcarata. Apidologie. 47 (4): 572–582.

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35. Dolezal, A.G.*, Carrillo-Tripp, J.*, Miller, W.A., Bonning, B.C., and Toth, A.L. 2015. Pollen contaminated with field-relevant levels of cyhalothrin affects honey bee survival, nutritional physiology, and pollen consumption behavior. Journal of Economic Entomology. 109 (1): 41-48.

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34. Sheehan, M.J., Botero, C.A., Hendry, T.A., Sedio, B.E., Jandt, J.M.*, Weiner, S.A.*, Toth, A.L., and Tibbetts, E.A. 2015. Different axes of environmental variation explain the presence versus extent of cooperative nest founding associations in Polistes paper wasps. Ecology Letters. 18 (10): 1057-1067.

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33. Rehan, S.M. and Toth, A.L. 2015. Climbing the social ladder: the molecular evolution

of sociality.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 30 (7): 426–433.

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32. Jandt, J.M.*, Thomson, J.L.+, Geffre, A.C.* and Toth, A.L. 2015. Lab rearing perturbs social traits: a case study with Polistes wasps.  Behavioral Ecology. 26 (5): 1274-1284.

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31. Jandt, J.M.* and Toth, A.L. 2015. Physiological and genomic mechanisms of social organization in wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Advances in Insect Physiology 48: 95-130.

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30. Berens, A.J.*, Junt, J.H., and Toth, A.L. 2015.  Nourishment level affects caste-related gene expression in Polistes wasps.  BMC Genomics. 16: 235.

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29. Berens, A.J.*, Hunt, J.H., and Toth, A.L.  2015. Comparative transcriptomics of convergent evolution: Different genes but conserved pathways underlie caste phenotypes across lineages of eusocial insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32: 690-703.

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28. Rehan, S.M., Berens, A.J.*, Toth, A.L.  2014. At the brink of eusociality: transcriptomic correlates of worker behaviour in a subsocial bee.  BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14: 260.

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27. Skaggs, R., Jackson, J.C.+, Toth, A.L., S. S. Schneider.  2014. The vibration signal and ritualized aggression in the honey bee, Apis mellifera.  Animal Behaviour. 98: 102-111.

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26. Beani, L., Dessì-Fulgheri, F., Cappa, F. and Toth, A.L.  2014. The trap of sex in social insects: from the female to the male perspective.  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 46: 519-533.

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25. Chowdhury, N.L., Cook, D., Hofmann, H., Majumder, M., and Toth, A.L.  2014. Visual statistical inference for high dimension, small sample size data.  Computational Statistics. 2014: 1-24.

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24. Carrillo-Tripp, J.*, Krueger, E.N., Harrison, R.L., Toth, A.L., Miller, W.A. and Bonning, B.C.  2014. Lymantria dispar iflavirus 1 (LdIV1), a new model to study iflaviral persistence in lepidopterans.  Journal of General Virology. 95: 2285-96.

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 23. Miller, W.A., Carrillo-Tripp, J.*, Bonning, B.C., Dolezal, A.G.*, and Toth, A.L. 2014. Letter to the Editor: Conclusive Evidence of Replication of a Plant Virus in Honeybees Is Lacking.  mBio.  5:3 1 e00985-14.

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22. Toth, A.L., Tooker, J.T., Radhakrishnan, S.R.*, Menard, R., Henshaw, M.T., and Grozinger, C.M.  2014. Shared genes related to aggression, rather than chemical communication, are associated with reproductive dominance in paper wasps (Polistes metricus). BMC Genomics. 15: 75.

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21. Jandt, J.M.*, Tibbetts, E.A. and Toth, A.L. 2014. Polistes paper wasps: a model genus for the study of social dominance hierarchies. Insectes Sociaux.  61(1): 11-27.

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20. Dolezal, A.G.* and Toth, A.L.  2013. Honey bee sociogenomics:  A genome scale perspective on bee social behavior and health. Apidologie.  2013: 1-21.

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19. Weiner, S.A.*, Galbraith, D.A.+, Adams, D.C., Valenzuela, N., Noll, F.B., Grozinger, C.M., Toth, A.L. 2013.  A survey of DNA methylation across social insect species, life stages, and castes reveals abundant and caste-associated methylation in a primitively social wasp. Naturwissenschaften. 100(8): 795-799.

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18. Ament, S.A., Blatti, C., Alaux, C., Wheeler, M.M., Toth, A.L., LeConte, Y., Hunt, G.J., Guzmán-Novoa, E., DeGrandi-Hoffman, G., Uribe-Rubio, J.L., Amdam, G.V., Page, R.E., Rodriguez-Zas, S.L., Robinson, G.E., and Sinha, S. 2012. Meta-analysis of brain gene expression reveals shared cis-regulatory mechanisms for different behavior maturation factors.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 109(26): E1801-10.

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17. Weiner, S.A.* and Toth, A.L. 2012.  Epigenetics in social insects: a new direction for understanding the evolution of castes.  Genetics Research International. 2012: 609810.

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16. Tibbetts, E.A., Skaldina, O., Zhao, V.W.+, Toth, A.L., Skaldin, M., Beani, L., and Dale, J. 2011. Geographic variation in status signals in Polistes dominulus paper wasps. PLoS ONE. 6 (12): e28173.

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15. Daugherty, T.H.F., Toth, A.L., and Robinson, G.E. 2011. Nutrition and division of labor: Effects on foraging and brain gene expression in the paper wasp Polistes metricus. Molecular Ecology 20: 5337-5347.

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14.  Henshaw, M.T., Toth, A.L., and Young, T.J. 2011. Development of new microsatellite loci for the genus Polistes from publically available expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences. Insectes Sociaux 58: 581.585.

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13. Singh, R., Levitt, A.L., Rajotte, E.G., Holmes, E.C., Ostiguy, N., vanEngelsdorp, D., Lipkin, W.I., dePamphilis, C.W., Toth, A.L., and Cox-Foster, D.L. 2010. RNA viruses in hymenopteran pollinators: evidence of inter-taxa virus transmission via pollen and potential impact on non-Apis hymenopteran species.  PLoS ONE 5: e14357.

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12. Hunt, J.H., Wolschin, F., Mutti, N., Henshaw, M.T., Newman, T.C., Toth, A.L. and Amdam, G.V. 2010. Differential gene expression and protein abundance evince ontogenetic bias toward castes in a primitively social wasp. PLoS ONE, 5: e10674.

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11. Toth, A.L., Varala, K., Henshaw, M.T., Rodriguez-Zas, S.L., Hudson, M.E. and Robinson, G.E. 2010. Brain transcriptomic analysis in paper wasps identifies genes associated with division of labor across social insect lineages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277:2139-2148.

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10. Toth, A.L. and Robinson, G.E. 2010. Evo-devo and the evolution of social behavior: Brain gene expression analyses in social insects. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, LXXIV: 1-9.

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9. Toth, A.L., Bilof, K.J.+ Henshaw, M.T., Hunt, J.H., and Robinson, G.E. 2009. Lipid stores, ovary development, and gene expression in Polistes metricus females. Insectes Sociaux. 56:77-84.

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8. Smith, C.R.*, Toth, A.L.*, Suarez, A.V., and Robinson, G.E. 2008. Genetic and genomic analyses of the division of labour in insect societies.  Nature Reviews Genetics, 9:735-748. * these authors contributed equally

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7. Toth, A.L., Varala, K., Newman, T.C., Miguez, F.E., Hutchison, S., Willoughby, D., Simons, J.F., Egholm, M., Hunt, J.H., Hudson, M.E., and Robinson, G.E. 2007. Wasp gene expression supports an evolutionary link between maternal behavior and eusociality. Science, 318: 441-444. (cited in “Faculty of 1000 Biology”)

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6. Toth, A.L. and Robinson, G.E. 2007. Evo-devo and the evolution of social behavior. Trends in Genetics, 23: 334-341.

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5. Honey bee Genome Sequencing Consortium. 2006. Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Nature, 443: 931-948.

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4. Kunieda, T.*, Fujiyuki, T.*, Kucharski, R.*, Foret S.*, Ament, S.*, Toth, A.L*, Ohashi, K.,Takeuchi, H. Kamikouchi, A., Kage, E., Morioka, M., Beye, M., Kubo, T., Robinson, G.E., & Maleszka, R. 2006. Carbohydrate metabolism genes and pathways in insects: insights from the honey bee genome.  Insect Molecular Biology, 15: 563-576. * these authors contributed equally

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3. Toth, A.L., Kantarovich, S.+, Meisel, A.F.+ & Robinson, G.E. 2005. Nutritional status influences socially-regulated foraging ontogeny in honey bees.  Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 4641-4649.

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2. Toth, A.L. & Robinson, G.E. Nutrition and division of labor in honey bees. 2005. Animal Behaviour, 69: 427-435.  (cited in “Faculty of 1000 Biolog

1. Leoncini, I., Le Conte, Y., Costagliola, G., Plettner, E., Toth, A.L., Wang, M., Huang, Z., Bécard J-M, Crauser, D., Slessor, K.N. & Robinson, G.E. 2004. Regulation of behavioral maturation in honey bees by a primer pheromone, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 101: 17559-17564.