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Ecology and Evolution

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42
Citations
7603
World Ranking
5535
National Ranking
1893

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jennifer H. Fewell is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research centers on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The subfields in which they have contributed include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science, Sociology and Political Science, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work spans multiple topics, with notable emphasis on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, and Insect Symbiosis and Bacterial Influences.

Jennifer H. Fewell's recent publications include:

  • Colony field test reveals dramatically higher toxicity of a widely-used mito-toxic fungicide on honey bees (Apis mellifera), 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • A common fungicide, Pristine®, impairs olfactory associative learning performance in honey bees (Apis mellifera), 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • Social consequences of energetically costly nest construction in a facultatively social bee, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Field cross-fostering and in vitro rearing demonstrate negative effects of both larval and adult exposure to a widely used fungicide in honey bees (Apis mellifera), 2021, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Dynamics of social interactions, in the flow of information and disease spreading in social insects colonies: Effects of environmental events and spatial heterogeneity, 2020, Journal of Theoretical Biology

Frequent co-authors include Jon F. Harrison, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Adrian Fisher, Madeleine M. Ostwald, and Brian H. Smith. Their collaborations have resulted in numerous publications within prominent journals.

Jennifer H. Fewell has contributed significantly to several publication venues, with multiple works appearing in Environmental Pollution, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, and Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.

Among the recognitions received, Jennifer H. Fewell was awarded a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • MODELS OF DIVISION OF LABOR IN SOCIAL INSECTS

    Samuel N. Beshers;Jennifer H. Fewell

  • The dynamics of animal social networks: analytical, conceptual, and theoretical advances

    Noa Pinter-Wollman;Elizabeth A. Hobson;Jennifer E. Smith;Andrew J. Edelman

  • Genetic diversity promotes homeostasis in insect colonies

    Benjamin P. Oldroyd;Jennifer H. Fewell

  • Social Insect Networks

    Jennifer H. Fewell

  • Colony state and regulation of pollen foraging in the honey bee, Apis mellifera L.

    Jennifer H. Fewell;Mark L. Winston

  • Infectious disease and group size: more than just a numbers game.

    Charles L. Nunn;Ferenc Jordán;Collin M. McCabe;Jennifer L. Verdolin

  • Emergence of increased division of labor as a function of group size

    Raphaël Jeanson;Jennifer H. Fewell;Root Gorelick;Susan M. Bertram

  • Energetic and time costs of foraging in harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

    Jennifer H. Fewell

  • Genetic determination of the queen caste in an ant hybrid zone

    Glennis E. Julian;Jennifer H. Fewell;Jürgen Gadau;Robert A. Johnson

  • Environmental and genetic influences on flight metabolic rate in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

    Jon F Harrison;Jennifer H Fewell

  • Genotypic variation in foraging responses to environmental stimuli by honey bees,Apis mellifera

    Jennifer Fewell;Robert Page

  • Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Sociocomplexity

    Juergen Gadau;Jennifer Fewell;Edward O. Wilson

  • Effects of experience on use of orientation cues in the giant tropical ant

    Jon F. Harrison;Jennifer H. Fewell;Tammy M. Stiller;Michael D. Breed

  • Effects of load type (pollen or nectar) and load mass on hovering metabolic rate and mechanical power output in the honey bee Apis mellifera

    Erica Feuerbacher;Jennifer H. Fewell;Stephen P. Roberts;Elizabeth F. Smith

  • Division of labor increases with colony size in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

    C. Tate Holbrook;Phillip M. Barden;Jennifer H. Fewell

  • Comb Wax Mediates the Acquisition of Nest-Mate Recognition Cues in Honey Bees

    Michael D. Breed;Kristina R. Williams;Jennifer H. Fewell

  • Graded recruitment in a ponerine ant

    Michael D. Breed;Jennifer H. Fewell;Allen J. Moore;Kristina R. Williams

  • The emergence of division of labour in forced associations of normally solitary ant queens

    Jennifer H. Fewell;Robert E. Page

  • Achievement of thermal stability by varying metabolic heat production in flying honeybees

    Jon F. Harrison;Jennifer H. Fewell;Stephen P. Roberts;H. Glenn Hall

  • Emergence of division of labour in halictine bees: contributions of social interactions and behavioural variance

    Raphaël Jeanson;Penelope F. Kukuk;Jennifer H. Fewell

  • Colony-level selection effects on individual and colony foraging task performance in honeybees, Apis mellifera L.

    Jennifer Fewell;Robert Page

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon F. Harrison
Jon F. Harrison Arizona State University
Michael D. Breed
Michael D. Breed University of Colorado Boulder
Juergen Gadau
Juergen Gadau University of Münster
Mark L. Winston
Mark L. Winston Simon Fraser University
Robert E. Page
Robert E. Page University of California, Davis
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman United States Department of Agriculture
Timothy A. Linksvayer
Timothy A. Linksvayer Arizona State University
George Wittemyer
George Wittemyer Colorado State University
Benjamin P. Oldroyd
Benjamin P. Oldroyd University of Sydney
Alexander S. Mikheyev
Alexander S. Mikheyev Australian National University

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