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Deborah R. Smith is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work intersects multiple subfields, including Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Insect Science.

Smith's research topics span diverse areas such as plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and insect and pesticide research. Other notable topics include spider taxonomy and behavior studies, lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, animal behavior and reproduction, and animal and plant science education.

Frequent publication venues for Smith include Apidologie, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Conservation, PLoS ONE, and Insect Systematics and Diversity. Among these venues, Apidologie features the highest number of their publications.

Smith has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Natapot Warrit, Gard W. Otis, Chet Bhatta, Víctor H. González, and Axel Brockmann.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Deborah R. Smith are:

  • Opportunities and challenges in Asian bee research and conservation (2023, Biological Conservation)
  • Acute exposure to sublethal doses of neonicotinoid insecticides increases heat tolerance in honey bees (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Apis laboriosa confirmed by morphometric and genetic analyses of giant honey bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from sites of sympatry in Arunachal Pradesh, North East India (2022, Apidologie)
  • Traditional uses and relative cultural importance of Tetragonula iridipennis (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in Nepal (2020, Journal of Melittology)
  • Phylogeography and species delimitation of the Asian cavity-nesting honeybees (2023, Insect Systematics and Diversity)

Best Publications

  • Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera

    George M. Weinstock;Gene E. Robinson;Richard A. Gibbs;Kim C. Worley

  • Thrice Out of Africa: Ancient and Recent Expansions of the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera

    Charles W. Whitfield;Susanta K. Behura;Stewart H. Berlocher;Andrew G. Clark

  • THE AFRICAN HONEY BEE: Factors Contributing to a Successful Biological Invasion*

    Stanley Scott Schneider;Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman;Deborah Roan Smith

  • Foraging specialization without relatedness or dominance among co-founding ant queens

    Steven W. Rissing;Gregory B. Pollock;Mark R. Higgins;Robert H. Hagen

  • Distinguishing African and European honeybee matrilines using amplified mitochondrial DNA.

    H G Hall;D R Smith

  • Varroa destructor : research avenues towards sustainable control

    Vincent Dietemann;Jochen Pflugfelder;Denis Anderson;Jean-Daniel Charriere

  • Neotropical Africanized honey bees have African mitochondrial DNA.

    Deborah Roan Smith;Orley R Taylor;Wesley M. Brown

  • Fluctuating asymmetry in the honey bee, Apis mellifera: effects of ploidy and hybridization

    D. R. Smith;D. R. Smith;B. J. Crespi;B. J. Crespi;F. L. Bookstein

  • Turkish honeybees: genetic variation and evidence for a fourth lineage of Apis mellifera mtDNA.

    Palmer Mr;Smith Dr;Kaftanoğlu O

  • Extreme genetic differences between queens and workers in hybridizing Pogonomyrmex harvester ants

    Sara Helms Cahan;Joel D Parker;Steven W Rissing;Robert A Johnson

  • Biogeography of Apis cerana F. and A. nigrocincta Smith: insights from mtDNA studies

    Deborah R. Smith;Lynn Villafuerte;Gard Otis;Michael R. Palmer

  • THE TRANSITION TO SOCIAL INBRED MATING SYSTEMS IN SPIDERS: ROLE OF INBREEDING TOLERANCE IN A SUBSOCIAL PREDECESSOR

    Trine Bilde;Trine Bilde;Yael Lubin;Deborah Smith;Jutta M. Schneider

  • Geographical Overlap of Two Mitochondrial Genomes in Spanish Honeybees (Apis mellifera iberica)

    D. R. Smith;M. F. Palopoli;B. R. Taylor;L. Garnery

  • Fluctuating asymmetry in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

    D. R. Smith;B. J. Crespi;F. L. Bookstein

  • The biogeography of Apis cerana as revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequence data

    Deborah R. Smith;Robert H. Hagen

  • Evolution of the complementary sex-determination gene of honey bees: Balancing selection and trans-species polymorphisms

    Soochin Cho;Zachary Y. Huang;Daniel R. Green;Deborah R. Smith

  • Turkish honey bees belong to the east Mediterranean mitochondrial lineage

    D.R. Smith;A. Slaymaker;M. Palmer;O. Kaftanoğlu

  • Diversity In The Genus Apis

    Deborah Roan Smith

  • Identification of African-derived bees in the Americas: a survey of methods.

    Walter S. Sheppard;Deborah R. Smith

  • The age and evolution of sociality in Stegodyphus spiders: a molecular phylogenetic perspective

    Jes Johannesen;Yael Lubin;Deborah R Smith;Trine Bilde

  • Genetic subpopulations of Varroa mites and their Apis cerana hosts in Thailand.

    Natapot Warrit;Deborah Roan Smith;Chariya Lekprayoon

  • Genetic Relatedness Among Co-Foundresses of Two Desert Ants, Veromessor Pergandei and Acromyrmex Versicolor(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Robert H. Hagen;Deborah R. Smith;Steven W. Rissing

  • Population structure and interdemic selection in the cooperative spider Anelosimus eximius

    D. R. Smith;R. H. Hagen

Frequent Co-Authors

Yael Lubin
Yael Lubin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Trine Bilde
Trine Bilde Aarhus University
Wesley M. Brown
Wesley M. Brown University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bernard J. Crespi
Bernard J. Crespi Simon Fraser University
Neil D. Tsutsui
Neil D. Tsutsui University of California, Berkeley
andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University
Michel Solignac
Michel Solignac Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Travis C. Glenn
Travis C. Glenn University of Georgia
Jianzhi Zhang
Jianzhi Zhang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael B. Eisen
Michael B. Eisen University of California, Berkeley

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