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Jeffery S. Pettis is an independent scientist and consultant based in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Pettis has a particular emphasis on insect science, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, as well as plant science and food science.

The scientist's work centers around several main topics, including insect and pesticide research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, insect pest control strategies, bee products chemical analysis, pesticide residue analysis and safety, and plasma applications and diagnostics.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Vulnerability of honey bee queens to heat-induced loss of fertility (2020), published in Nature Sustainability
  • Pesticides in honey bee colonies: Establishing a baseline for real world exposure over seven years in the USA (2021), published in Environmental Pollution
  • Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera) (2021), published in Communications Biology
  • Natural extracts as potential control agents for Nosema ceranae infection in honeybees, Apis mellifera (2021), published in Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
  • Candidate stress biomarkers for queen failure diagnostics (2020), published in BMC Genomics

Frequent publication venues for Pettis's research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Nature Sustainability, Environmental Pollution, and Communications Biology.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with coauthors such as Veeranan Chaimanee, Terd Disayathanoowat, Thummanoon Boonmee, Chainarong Sinpoo, and Alison McAfee.

Best Publications

  • A Metagenomic Survey of Microbes in Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder

    Diana L. Cox-Foster;Sean Conlan;Edward C. Holmes;Edward C. Holmes;Gustavo Palacios

  • High levels of miticides and agrochemicals in North American apiaries: implications for honey bee health.

    Christopher A. Mullin;Maryann Frazier;James L Frazier;Sara A. Ashcraft

  • Colony Collapse Disorder: A Descriptive Study

    Dennis vanEngelsdorp;Jay D. Evans;Claude Saegerman;Chris Mullin

  • A survey of honey bee colony losses in the U.S., fall 2007 to spring 2008.

    Dennis vanEngelsdorp;Dennis vanEngelsdorp;Jerry Hayes;Robyn M. Underwood;Jeffery Pettis

  • Crop Pollination Exposes Honey Bees to Pesticides Which Alters Their Susceptibility to the Gut Pathogen Nosema ceranae

    Jeffery S. Pettis;Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Michael Andree;Jennie Stitzinger

  • Pathogen webs in collapsing honey bee colonies.

    R. Scott Cornman;David R. Tarpy;Yanping Chen;Lacey Jeffreys

  • Nosema ceranae is a long-present and wide-spread microsporidian infection of the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) in the United States.

    Yanping Chen;Jay D. Evans;I. Bart Smith;Jeffery S. Pettis

  • Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination and food production

    Simon G. Potts;Vera Imperatriz Fonseca;Hien T. Ngo;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer

  • A national survey of managed honey bee 2015–2016 annual colony losses in the USA

    Kelly Kulhanek;Nathalie Steinhauer;Karen Rennich;Dewey M Caron

  • Prevalence and Transmission of Honeybee Viruses

    Y. P. Chen;J. S. Pettis;A. Collins;M. F. Feldlaufer

  • A survey of honey bee colony losses in the United States, fall 2008 to spring 2009.

    Jerry Hayes;Robyn M Underwood;Jeffery S Pettis

  • Direct effect of acaricides on pathogen loads and gene expression levels in honey bees Apis mellifera

    Humberto Boncristiani;Robyn Underwood;Ryan Schwarz;Jay D. Evans

  • Genomic Analyses of the Microsporidian Nosema ceranae, an Emergent Pathogen of Honey Bees

    R. Scott Cornman;Yan Ping Chen;Michael C. Schatz;Craig Street

  • Assessment of Chronic Sublethal Effects of Imidacloprid on Honey Bee Colony Health

    Galen P. Dively;Michael S. Embrey;Alaa Kamel;David J. Hawthorne

  • Sublethal neonicotinoid insecticide exposure reduces solitary bee reproductive success

    Christoph Sandrock;Lorenzo G. Tanadini;Jeffery S. Pettis;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer

  • Transmission of Kashmir bee virus by the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor

    Yanping Chen;Jeffery S. Pettis;Jay D. Evans;Matthew Kramer

  • Large-scale field application of RNAi technology reducing Israeli acute paralysis virus disease in honey bees (Apis mellifera, Hymenoptera: Apidae).

    Wayne Hunter;James Ellis;Dennis vanEngelsdorp;Jerry Hayes

  • In-hive Pesticide Exposome: Assessing risks to migratory honey bees from in-hive pesticide contamination in the Eastern United States

    Kirsten S. Traynor;Jeffery S. Pettis;David R. Tarpy;Christopher A. Mullin

  • A survey of managed honey bee colony losses in the USA, fall 2009 to winter 2010

    Dennis vanEngelsdorp;Jerry Hayes;Robyn M Underwood;Dewey Caron

  • survey of honey bee colony losses in the United States, fall 2008 to spring 2009

    Dennis vanEngelsdorp;Jerry Hayes;Robyn M. Underwood;Jeffery S. Pettis

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay D. Evans
Jay D. Evans Agricultural Research Service
Dennis vanEngelsdorp
Dennis vanEngelsdorp University of Maryland, College Park
Yanping Chen
Yanping Chen Agricultural Research Service
Peter J. Neumann
Peter J. Neumann University of Bern
David R. Tarpy
David R. Tarpy North Carolina State University
Leonard J. Foster
Leonard J. Foster University of British Columbia
James D. Ellis
James D. Ellis University of Florida
Kathy Baylis
Kathy Baylis University of California, Santa Barbara
W. Ian Lipkin
W. Ian Lipkin Columbia University
Galen P. Dively
Galen P. Dively University of Maryland, College Park

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