@KapheimLab

Plasticity | Evolution | Bees

 Utah State University
kapheimlab.com
Joined September 2017
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Sandra Rehan@sanrehan23 Mar 2022
New paper - Social divergence: molecular pathways underlying castes and longevity in a facultatively eusocial small carpenter bee royalsocietypublishing.org/d… Congrats Wyatt! The small carpenter bee, Ceratina japonica, is both solitary and eusocial in sympatry (Photo: @KodanakaBees)
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Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour, Physiology. Plenary talks at #InsetoSociaisEmRede show the diversity of fascinating research that social insect scientist do! @secbras @SBEtologia @sbentomologia @IUSSI_NAS @IUSSI_NWES @michaeltpoulsen @pfellipec
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Are you or someone you know an ABD or recently defended grad student who has done excellent social insect research? Are you a member of @IUSSI_NAS? Nominations for the Eickwort and La Fage awards are open until October 29: iussi.cyberbee.net/awards/
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#IUSSINAS Statement on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
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Amro Zayed@AmroYorkU29 May 2020
New paper led by @KarenKapheim w/ @Harpur @clementfkent1 myself and others / Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee pnas.org/content/early/2020/…

Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee | PNAS

Developmental plasticity generates phenotypic variation, but how it contributes to evolutionary change is unclear. Phenotypes of individuals in cas...

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🐝 developmental plasticity ... influences evolution of sociality @KapheimLab relationships between developmental & social plasticity in a bee species that can adopt either a social or solitary lifestyle pnas.org/content/early/2020/… @PNASNews #insect #evolution #genome
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Our (timely) new study suggests virus-infected honey bees practice "social distancing" when at home. But, the virus may manipulate bee-havior to spread to other hives! Great teamwork @PrettyPolistes, A. Dolezal & collaborators @IowaStateU @Illinois_Alma! pnas.org/content/early/2020/…
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Kate Hunter (@thefunkyfrances), 2019 #TECExplorationFund #MamontScholar Recipient Project: Evolutionary Decoupling of Life History Trade-Offs Associated w/ Sociality in Bees Location: Barro Colorado Island, Panama Institution: @USUAggies Tune in for more #StudentGrants features!
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Expression of #miRNAs from six bee 🐝 species, targeting #genes related to social behaviour biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… with @KapheimLab @BerylMJones @EirikSovik @EckartStolle @benshahary
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New research online now: 'Survival and productivity benefits of sociality vary seasonally in the tropical, facultatively eusocial bee Megalopta genalis' Smith et al. @KarenKapheim @KapheimLab link.springer.com/article/10… #socialevolution #halictidae #scicomm #socialinsects
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Very happy to share our work on genomic recombination in a social and solitary bee! Online now @MBE_press: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance… - @andreaswallberg @KarenKapheim @UU_University
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Out now - how does social behaviour influence the evolution of genome architecture? Fascinating review by @DustRubenstein @arvidagren @Carbone_Lab @ElEarlyBird @hopihoekstra @KapheimLab Laurent Keller, @CorrieMoreau @Amy_L_Toth @sam_yeaman @HofmannLab bit.ly/2QmHdyU
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Solitary alkali #bee 🐝 300 Mbp #genome 🧬 99% complete Insecta #BUSCOv3 #genes @GeneticsGSA G3 g3journal.org/content/early/… with @KarenKapheim @Harpur @laruzzante @EckartStolle et al.
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Last but not least, last paper out of my dissertation is finally published online in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution!! great collaboration on #evolutionary history and #phylogeography of the white-nosed #coati #mammals #procyonids #Biogeography doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018… …
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Today's the day! Hope to see you there!
500 Women Scientists - Logan, UT Pod@500WSLoganUT10 Aug 2018
Just a reminder that our next meet-up is next Wednesday, Aug. 15! Bring some food or drink to share, if you're able!
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Glad this didn’t happen to @KapheimLab grad student @thefunkyfrances on her way home from Panama this week! xitter.cf/EmK_wacki/status/99656…
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Tien Lindsay just got the @USUAggies College of Science Legacy Award! @jonbkoch @KarenKapheim
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Super proud of the @KapheimLab for all of the hard work and creativity they put into their research planning and execution this year. Their dedication has paid off in a big way so far:
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New episode of colony collapse tonight with an interview from Dr. Margarita Lopez-Uribe. Learn about the bees and groove. 10-midnight tonight!
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Short review on the Genomes of Hymenoptera with @KapheimLab and others. authors.elsevier.com/c/1WKqZ…
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