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Klaus Hartfelder is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans various subfields, including Genetics, Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's research focuses primarily on insect biology, with emphasis on insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, insect and pesticide research, and plant and animal studies. Additional topics covered in their work include insect resistance and genetics, neurobiology and insect physiology research, insect-plant interactions and control, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Hartfelder has published multiple papers in frequent journals and venues such as bioRxiv, Apidologie, Scientific Reports, BMC Genomics, and Molecular Ecology. Some of their recent publications include:

  • The nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of Frieseomelitta varia - a highly eusocial stingless bee (Meliponini) with a permanently sterile worker caste, 2020, BMC Genomics
  • DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming in young honey bee workers, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • Testis development and spermatogenesis in drones of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L., 2020, Apidologie
  • Transcriptomic Signatures of Ageing Vary in Solitary and Social Forms of an Orchid Bee, 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Juvenile hormone affects age polyethism, ovarian status and cuticular hydrocarbon profile in workers of the waspPolybia occidentalis, 2021, Journal of Experimental Biology

Throughout their career, Hartfelder has collaborated with several researchers, among whom the most frequent co-authors are:

  • Carlos Antônio Mendes Cardoso-Júnior
  • Denyse Cavalcante Lago
  • Isobel Ronai
  • Benjamin P. Oldroyd
  • A. P. Lourenço

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

  • Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living

    Karen M. Kapheim;Karen M. Kapheim;Hailin Pan;Cai Li;Steven L. Salzberg;Steven L. Salzberg

  • The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization

    Ben M Sadd;Ben M Sadd;Seth M Barribeau;Seth M Barribeau;Guy Bloch;Dirk C. de Graaf

  • Vitellogenin regulates hormonal dynamics in the worker caste of a eusocial insect.

    Karina R. Guidugli;Adriana M. Nascimento;Gro V. Amdam;Gro V. Amdam;Angel R. Barchuk

  • Social reversal of immunosenescence in honey bee workers.

    Gro V. Amdam;Anne Lene T.O. Aase;Siri-Christine Seehuus;M. Kim Fondrk

  • Insect juvenile hormone: from "status quo" to high society

    K. Hartfelder

  • Social insect polymorphism: hormonal regulation of plasticity in development and reproduction in the honeybee.

    Klaus Hartfelder;Wolf Engels

  • Altered Physiology in Worker Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Infested with the Mite Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae): A Factor in Colony Loss During Overwintering?

    Gro V. Amdam;Klaus Hartfelder;Kari Norberg;Arne Hagen

  • Caste and metamorphosis: hemolymph titers of juvenile hormone and ecdysteroids in last instar honeybee larvae.

    Anna Rachinsky;Colette Strambi;Alain Strambi;Klaus Hartfelder

  • Endocrine Control of Insect Polyphenism

    K. Hartfelder;D.J. Emlen

  • Life history and development ‐ a framework for understanding developmental plasticity in lower termites

    Judith Korb;Klaus Hartfelder

  • The insulin signaling pathway in honey bee (Apis mellifera) caste development - differential expression of insulin-like peptides and insulin receptors in queen and worker larvae.

    Sergio Vicente de Azevedo;Klaus Hartfelder

  • Juvenile hormone effect on DNA synthesis and apoptosis in caste-specific differentiation of the larval honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) ovary.

    Ines C.Schmidt Capella;Klaus Hartfelder

  • RNAi-mediated silencing of vitellogenin gene function turns honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers into extremely precocious foragers

    David Santos Marco Antonio;Karina Rosa Guidugli-Lazzarini;Adriana Mendes do Nascimento;Zilá Luz Paulino Simões

  • Juvenile hormone signaling in insect oogenesis.

    Carolina Gonçalves Santos;Fernanda Carvalho Humann;Klaus Hartfelder

  • Corpora allata activity, a prime regulating element for caste-specific juvenile hormone titre in honey bee larvae (Apis mellifera carnica)

    Anna Rachinsky;Klaus Hartfelder

  • Physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying caste development, reproduction and division of labor in stingless bees

    Klaus Hartfelder;Gustavo R. Makert;Carla C. Judice;Gonçalo A.G. Pereira

  • The initial stages of oogenesis and their relation to differential fertility in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) castes

    Erica D. Tanaka;Klaus Hartfelder

  • Ecdysteroid titer and reproduction in queens and workers of the honey bee and of a stingless bee: loss of ecdysteroid function at increasing levels of sociality?

    K Hartfelder;Marcia Maria Gentile Bitondi;W. C. Santana;Zilá Luz Paulino Simões

  • Identification of a juvenile hormone esterase-like gene in the honey bee, Apis mellifera L.--expression analysis and functional assays.

    Aline Mackert;Adriana Mendes do Nascimento;Márcia Maria Gentile Bitondi;Klaus Hartfelder

Frequent Co-Authors

Zilá Luz Paulino Simões
Zilá Luz Paulino Simões Universidade de São Paulo
Gro V. Amdam
Gro V. Amdam Arizona State University
Guy Bloch
Guy Bloch Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Frank Hauser
Frank Hauser University of Copenhagen
Jay D. Evans
Jay D. Evans Agricultural Research Service
Hugh M. Robertson
Hugh M. Robertson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University
Christine G. Elsik
Christine G. Elsik University of Missouri
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine

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