In review
Pope N, Singh A, López-Uribe MM (Submitted) Shifts in bee diet breaths are associated with high gene turnover in gustatory receptors and positive selection across olfactory receptor families. Molecular Biology and Evolution
Vaudo AD, Orr M, Zhou Q-S, Zhu C-D, Mu J, López-Uribe MM (Submitted) Small-scale migratory beekeeping induces intermediate disturbance effects on native bee communities in Tibetan Plateau alpine meadows. Insect Conservation and Diversity
Gray HL, Ivers NA, López E, Peter BG, Longing S, López-Uribe MM, Jha S. (In review) Diet specialization mediates drivers of Cucurbita herbivory in a semi-arid agroecosystem. Current Research in Insect Science
Lawrence BL, Custer GF, Underwood RM, Dunn RR, Dini-Andreote F, López-Uribe MM. (In review) Honey bee bread is characterized by a code microbiome despite the effects of geography and miticide treatments. Environmental Microbiology Reports
Turley NE, Kania SE, Butzler TM, Petitta IR, Sesler VV, Biddinger DJ, López-Uribe MM. (In review) Bee monitoring in Pennsylvania by community scientist: Comparing a collections-based program with iNaturalist. Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
López-Uribe MM, Appert MK, Delgado AX, Herrera AF, Jimenez A, Martín RD, Riaño D, Cure JR, Fuentes JD, Duque LO, Gonzalez VH (In prep) Critical thermal maxima differ between groups of insects and their foraging times: Implications for their responses to climate change. Journal of Melittology
Hinshaw C, López-Uribe MM, Rosa C. (In review) Plant virus impacts on yield and plant-pollinator interactions are phylogenetically modulated independently of domestication in Cucurbita spp. Phytopathology
Bird SA, Pope NS, McGrady CM, Fleischer SJ, López-Uribe MM. (In review) Promiscuous Queen Bees: Assumptions of Monogamy are Inaccurate for the Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens). Journal of Economic Entomology.
Gray HL, López-Uribe MM, Jha S. (In review) Floral phenological plasticity induced by early-season herbivory. American Journal of Botany
2024
Jones LJ, Miller D, Schilder RJ, López-Uribe MM. (2024) Body mass, temperature, and pathogen intensity differentially affect the critical thermal maxima and its population-level variance in a solitary bee. Ecology and Evolution 14(2):e10945 [link]
- #Blog Post: Temperature, size, and pathogen load affect wild bee heat tolerance by Laura Jones
Phan NT, Joshi NK, Rajotte EG, Zhu F, Peter KA, López-Uribe MM, Biddinger DJ. (2024) Systemic pesticides in a solitary bee pollen food store affect larval development and increase pupal mortality. Science of the Total Environment 95:170048. [link]
Caesar L, Rice D, McAfee A, Underwood R, Ganote C, Tarpy D, Foster L, Newton I (2024) Metagenomic analysis of the honey bee queen microbiome reveals low bacterial diversity and Caudoviricetes phages. mSystems e01182-23 [link]
2023
Petitta IR, López-Uribe MM, Sabo AE. Biology and management of wild lupine (Lupinus perennis L.): a case study for conserving rare plants in edge habitat. Plant Ecology.
- #Blog Post: Habitat management is needed to conserve wild lupine populations and associated pollinators by Isabella Petitta
- #PennStateNews: Edge habitats along roads and power lines may be key to conserving rare plants
Cambron-Kopco L, Underwood RM, Given K, Harpur BA, López-Uribe MM. (2023) Honey bee stocks exhibit high levels of intra-colony variation in viral loads. Journal of Apicultural Research
Freitas F, Branstetter M, Franceschini-Santos V, Dorchin A, Wright K, López-Uribe MM, Griswold T, Silveira F, Almeida E. (2023). UCE phylogenomics, biogeography, and classification of long-horned bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Eucerini), with insights on using specimens with extremely degraded DNA. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(4): 3
Underwood RM, Lawrence B, Turley NE, Cambron-Kopco L, Kietzman P, Traver BE, López-Uribe MM. (2023) A longitudinal experiment demonstrates that organic beekeeping management systems support healthy and productive honey bee colonies. Scientific Reports 13(1): 6072
Pope N, Singh A, Childers A, Kapheim K, Evans J, López-Uribe MM. (2023) Expansion of agriculture drives adaptive evolution in a specialized squash pollinator. PNAS 120(15): e2208116120
Gutierrez GM, LeCroy LA, Roulston TH, Biddinger DJ, López-Uribe MM. (2023) Osmia taurus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): A new non-native bee species with invasiveness potential in North America. Environmental Entomology 52(2): 149-156
- #Blog Post: Is This Non-Native Mason Bee an Invasive Species? by John P. Roche
Sandoval-Arango S, Branstetter M, Cardoso C, López-Uribe MM. (2023). Phylogenomics reveals within species diversification but incongruence with color phenotypes in widespread orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini). Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(2):1-13
2022
Hines HM, Kilpatrick SK, Mikó I, Snellings D, López-Uribe MM, Tian L. (2022) The diversity, evolution, and development of setal morphologies in bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus spp.). PeerJ 10: e14555
Andrade TO, Ramos KS, López-Uribe MM, Branstetter MG, Brandão CRF. (2022) Integrative approach resolves the taxonomy of Eulaema cingulata (Apidae, Euglossini), an important pollinator in the Neotropics. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 94: 247–269
Jones LJ, Singh A, Schilder RJ, López-Uribe MM. (2022) Squash bees host high diversity and prevalence of parasites in the northeastern United States. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 195: 107848.
Harvey J, Tougeron K, Gols R, Heinen R, Abarca M, Abram PK, Basset Y, Berg M, Boggs C, Brodeur J, Cardoso P, de Boer JG, De Snoo G, Deacon C, Dell JE, Desneux N, Dillon M, Duffy GA, Dyer L, Jacintha E, Espíndola A, Fordyce J, Forister M, Fukushima C, García-Robledo C, Gely C, Gobbi M, Hallmann C, Hance T, Harte J, Hochkirch A, Hof C, Kingsolver J, Lamarre GPA, Laurance W, Lavandero B, Le Lann C, Ma C-S; Ma G, Moiroux J, Monticelli L, Shah AA, Thakur MP, Thomas M, Van de Pol M, Verberk WCEP, Lehmann P, López-Uribe MM; Nice C, Ode P, Pincebourde S, Ripple W, Rowe M, Samways M, Sentis A, Stork N, Terblanche J, Tylianakis J, van Baaren J, van der Putten W, Wagner D, Van Dyck H, Chown S, Wyckhuys K, Woods HA, Wetzel W, Weisser W. (2022) Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects. Ecological Monographs 93(1): e1553
Turley NE, Biddinger DJ, Joshi NK, López-Uribe MM. (2022) Six years of wild bee monitoring shows changes in biodiversity within and across years and declines in abundance. Ecology and Evolution: 12(8):e9190
- #Blog Post: What Have We Learned From 6 Years of Monitoring Wild Bees? by Nash Turley
2021
Evans KC, Underwood RM, López-Uribe MM. (2021) Combined effects of oxalic acid sublimation and brood breaks on Varroa Mite (Varroa destructor) and Deformed Wing Virus levels in newly established honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. Journal of Apicultural Research: 1-9
- #Blog Post: Oxalic acid applications to honey bee packages: Do they help reduce mites and viruses? by Robyn Underwood
Jones LJ, Ford RP, Schilder RJ, López-Uribe MM. (2021) Honey bee-associated viruses are prevalent but not abundant in wild pollinators of cucurbit agroecosystems. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
- #Blog Post: Honey bee viruses are common, but at low levels, in wild bees by Laura Jones
McGrady CM, Strange JP, López-Uribe MM, Fleischer SJ. (2021) Wild bumble bee colony abundance, scaled by field size, predicts pollination services. Ecosphere.
Miranda EA, Lima IN, Oi CA, López-Uribe MM, Del Lama MA, Freitas BM, Silva CI. (2021) Overlap of ecological niche breadth of Euglossa cordata and Eulaema nigrita (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini) accessed by pollen loads and species distribution modeling. Neotropical Entomology.
Jones LJ, Kilpatrick SK, López-Uribe MM. (2021) Gynandromorph of the squash bee Eucera (Peponapis) pruinosa from an agricultural field in central Pennsylvania, United States of America. Journal of Melittology.
- #Blog post: A diamond in the pumpkin patch by Laura Jones
Hinshaw C, Evans KC, Rosa C, López-Uribe MM. (2021) The role of pathogen dynamics and immune gene expression in the survival of feral honey bees. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 505 doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.594263
- #Blog Post: How viruses, immunity, and overwintering survival of feral honey bees compare to managed colonies by Chauncy Hinshaw
2020
Woodard SH, Federman S, James RR, Danforth BN, Griswold TL, Inouye D, McFrederick QS, Morandin L, Paul DL, Sellers E, Strange JP, Vaughan M, Williams NM, Branstetter MG, Burns C, Cane J, Cariveau AB, Cariveau DP, Childers A, Childers C, Cox-Foster DL, Evans EC, Graham KK, Hackett K, Huntzinger KT, Irwin RE, Jha S, Lawson SP, Liang C, López-Uribe MM, Melathopoulos A, Moylett HMC, Otto C, Ponisio LC, Richardson LL, Rose R, Singh R, Wehling W (2020) Toward a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees. Biological Conservation 252: 1088 doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108821
Vaudo AD, Biddinger DJ, Sickel W, Keller A, López-Uribe MM. (2020) Phylogenetic pollen preferences facilitate naturalization and pollination services of introduced bees in new habitats. Royal Society Open Science 7(7):200225 doi/10.1098/rsos.200225
Kilpatrick SK, Gibbs J, Mikulas MM, Spichiger S, Ostiguy N, Biddinger DJ, López-Uribe MM. (2020) An updated checklist of the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) of Pennsylvania, United States of America. Journal of Hymenoptera Research https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.77.49622
Phan N, Joshi N, Rajotte E, López-Uribe MM, Zhu F, Biddinger DJ. (2020) A new ingestion bioassay protocol for assessing pesticide toxicity to the adult Japanese orchard bee (Osmia cornifrons) Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66118-2
López-Uribe MM, Ricigliano V, Simone-Finstrom MD (2020) Defining Pollinator Health: Understanding bee ecological, genetic and physiological factors at the individual, colony and population levels. Annual Review of Animal Bioscience. doi:10.1146/annurev-animal-020518-115045
2019
Brashear A, Roobsoong W, Siddiqui FA, Nguitragool W, Sattabongkot J, López-Uribe MM, Miao J, Cui L (2019) A glance of the blood stage transcriptome of a Southeast Asian Plasmodium ovale isolate. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(11): e0007850. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007850
Cusser S, Grando C, Zucchi MI, López-Uribe MM, Pope NS, Ballare K, Luna-Lucena DC, Neff J, Almeida AEB, Young K, Jha S (2019) Small but critical: semi-natural habitat fragments promote bee abundance in cotton agroecosystems across both Brazil and the United States. Landscape Ecology doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00868-x
Beasley DE, Fitzgerald JL, Fowler A, Keleher K, López-Uribe MM, Dunn RR (2019) Do Bee Wings Adapt for Flight in Urban Environments?. Southeastern Naturalist 18(2):183-91.
López-Uribe MM, Jha S, Soro A. (2019) A trait-based approach to predict population genetic structure in bees. Molecular Ecology doi.org/10.1111/mec.15028
- #Blog Post: Bigger bees bumble by barriers, end up with lower population genetic differentiation by Jeremy Yoder
- #PennStateNews: Bee dispersal ability may influence conservation measures
Underwood RM, Traver BE, López-Uribe MM (2019) Beekeeping management practices are associated with operation size and beekeepers’ philosophy towards in-hive chemicals. Insects 10: 10 doi.org/10.3390/insects10010010
2018
Ryan SF, Adamson NL, Aktipis A, Andersen LK, Austin R, Barnes L, Beasley MR, Bedell KD, Bidell K, Briggs S, Chapman B, Cooper C, Corn J, Creamer NG, Delborne JA, Domenico P, Driscoll E, Goodwin J, Hjarding A, Hulbert JM, Isard S, Just MG, Kar Gupta K, López-Uribe MM, O’Sullivan J, Landin J, Landis EA, McKenney EA, Madden AA, Nichols LM, Ramaswamy S, Reading B, Russell S, Sengupta N, Shell L, Sheard JK, Shoemaker DD, Sorger DM, Starling C, Thakur S, Vatsavai R, Weinstein M, P Wimfrey, Dunn RR (2018) The Role of Citizen Science in Addressing Grand Challenges in Food and Agriculture Research. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285 (1891), 20181977 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1977
Vaudo AD, Fritz ML, López-Uribe MM. (2018) Opening the door to the past: what new genetic information can be accessed from museum curated bees. Insects Systematics and Diversity 2 (5), 4 doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixy014
- #Blog Post: Opening the door to the past: What new genetic information can be accessed from museum curated bees by Anthony Vaudo
Grando C, Amon ND, Clough S, Guo N, Wei W, Azevedo P, López-Uribe MM, Zucchi MI (2018) Two Colors, One Species: The case of Melissodes nigroaenea (Apidae: Eucerini), an important pollinator of cotton fields in Brazil. Sociobiology 65 (4), 645-653 doi: 10.13102/sociobiology.v65i4.3464
Penick CA, Halawani O, Pearson B, López-Uribe MM, Mathews S, Dunn RR, Smith AA. (2018) External immunity in ant societies: Sociality and colony size do not predict investment in antimicrobials. Royal Society Open Science 5(2): 171332. doi: 10.1098/rsos.171332
Dorchin A, López-Uribe MM, Praz CJ, Griswold T, Danforth BN (2018) Phylogeny and new generic-level classification of the Eucera complex (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Eucerini partim). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 119:81-92. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.007
2017
Hamblin AL, Youngsteadt E, López-Uribe MM, Frank SD. (2017) Physiological thermal limits predict differential responses of bees to urban heat-island effects. Biology Letters 13(6):20170125. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0125
López-Uribe MM, Fitzgerald AM§, Simone-Finstrom MD. (2017) Inducible versus constitutive social immunity: examining effects of colony infection on glucose oxidase and defensin-1 production in honeybees. Royal Society Open Science 4(5): 170224. doi: 10.1098/rsos.170224
López-Uribe MM, Appler RH, Youngsteadt E, Dunn RR, Frank SD, Tarpy DR. (2017) Higher immunocompetence is associated with higher genetic diversity in feral honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera). Conservation Genetics 18(3):659-666. doi: 10.1007/s10592-017-0942-x
Schapheer C§, López-Uribe MM, Vera A, Villagra C (2017) Distribution, habitat use and plant associations for Moluchia brevipennis (Saussure, 1864) (Blattodea: Ectobiidae): An endemic cockroach from Chilean Mediterranean Matorral biome. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 61:114-122. doi: 10.1016/j.rbe.2017.02.001
2016
López-Uribe MM, Minckley RL, Cane J, Danforth BN (2016) Crop domestication facilitated rapid geographical expansion of a specialist pollinator, the squash bee Peponapis pruinosa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 283:20160443. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0443
Kamvar ZN, López-Uribe MM, Coughan S, Grünwald NJ, Lapp H, Manel S (2016) Developing educational tools for population genetics in R: a shared and interactive approach. Molecular Ecology Resources 17(1):120-128. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12558
Youngsteadt E, Moylett H, López-Uribe MM, Hamblin AL (2016) T.B. Mitchell: The man behind ‘The Bees of the Eastern United States’. American Entomologist 62(3):157-162. doi: 10.1093/ae/tmw023
López-Uribe MM, Sconiers WB, Frank SD, Dunn RR, Tarpy DR (2016) Reduced cellular immune response in social insect lineages. Biology Letters 12(3):20150984. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0984
2015
Youngsteadt E, Appler RH, López-Uribe MM, Tarpy DR, Frank SD (2015) Urbanization increases pathogen pressure on feral and managed honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). PLoS One 10(11):e0142031. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142031
López-Uribe MM, Morreale SJ, Santiago CK, Danforth BN (2015) Nest suitability, fine-scale population structure and male-mediated dispersal of a solitary ground nesting bee in an urban landscape. PLoS One 10(5):e0125719. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125719
Ramírez SR, Hernández C, Link A, López-Uribe MM (2015) Seasonal cycles, phylogenetic assembly, and functional diversity of orchid bee communities. Ecology and Evolution 5:1896-1907. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1466
2014
López-Uribe MM, Cardoso CF, Zamudio KR, Danforth BN (2014) Climate, physiological tolerance, and sex-biased dispersal shape genetic structure of Neotropical orchid bees. Molecular Ecology 23(7):1874–1890. doi: 10.1111/mec.12689
- #CornellChronicle: Dry future climate could reduce orchid bee habitat
2013
Oi CA, López-Uribe MM, Cervini M, Del Lama MA (2013). Non-lethal method of DNA sampling in euglossine bees supported by mark-recapture experiments and microsatellite genotyping. Journal of Insect Conservation 17(5):1071-1079. doi: 10.1007/s10841-013-9582-8
López-Uribe MM, Santiago CK§, Bogdanowicz SM, Danforth BN (2013) Discovery and characterization of microsatellite primers for the solitary ground nesting bee Colletes inaequalis using enriched libraries and 454 sequencing. Apidologie 44 (2):163-172. doi: 10.1007/s13592-012-0168-3
2011
López-Uribe MM, Green AN§, Ramírez SR, Bogdanowicz SM, Danforth BN (2011) Isolation and cross-species characterization of polymorphic microsatellites for the orchid bee Eulaema meriana (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini). Conservation Genetics Resources 3(1):21-23. doi: 10.1007/s12686-010-9271-9
2010
Wikelski M, Moxley J, Eaton-Mordas A, López-Uribe MM, Holland R, Moskowitz D, Roubik DW, Kays R (2010) Large-range movements of Neotropical orchid bees observed via radio telemetry. PLoS One 5(5): e10738. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010738
2008
López-Uribe MM, Oi CA, Del Lama MA (2008) Nectar-foraging behavior of euglossine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in urban areas. Apidologie 39:410-418.
2007
López-Uribe MM, Del Lama MA (2007) Molecular identification of urban species of euglossine bees by PCR-RFLP and sequencing. Neotropical Entomology 36(5):712-720. doi: 10.1590/S1519-566X2007000500012
López-Uribe MM, Almanza MT, Ordoñez M (2007) Diploid male frequencies in Colombian populations of euglossine bees. Biotropica 39(5):660-662. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00287.x
Gaspar JCW, López-Uribe MM, Del Lama MA (2007) Allozyme variation and sociogenetic structure of Polistes satan Bequaert 1940 colonies (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Genetics and Molecular Biology 30(2):470-474.