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Ecology and Evolution

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41
Citations
4869
World Ranking
5948
National Ranking
2017

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Quinn S. McFrederick is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on insect science, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, genetics, plant science, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics of their work include insect and pesticide research, plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant parasitism and resistance, bee products chemical analysis, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, as well as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

McFrederick has published extensively in several scientific journals, frequently appearing in:

  • Microbial Ecology
  • Insects
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Molecular Ecology

Their recent papers include:

  • "Dominant bee species and floral abundance drive parasite temporal dynamics in plant-pollinator communities" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "(More than) Hitchhikers through the network: the shared microbiome of bees and flowers" (2020), published in Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • "Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees" (2020), published in Biological Conservation
  • "Landscape simplification shapes pathogen prevalence in plant-pollinator networks" (2020), published in Ecology Letters
  • "Environment Shapes the Microbiome of the Blue Orchard Bee, Osmia lignaria" (2020), published in Microbial Ecology

Among frequent collaborators are Bryan N. Danforth, Kaleigh A. Russell, Lyna Ngor, Jessica Maccaro, and Magda Argueta-Guzmán.

McFrederick has contributed to book publications, including "Exploring the Bee Microbiome: Distributions, Interactions, and Functions" (2023), published by Frontiers Media.

They have been recognized with the Hellman Fellow award in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Are urban parks refuges for bumble bees Bombus spp. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)?

    Quinn S. McFrederick;Gretchen LeBuhn

  • The Bee Microbiome: Impact on Bee Health and Model for Evolution and Ecology of Host-Microbe Interactions.

    Philipp Engel;Waldan K. Kwong;Waldan K. Kwong;Quinn McFrederick;Kirk E. Anderson

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Environment or kin: Whence do bees obtain acidophilic bacteria?

    Quinn S. McFREDERICK;William T. Wcislo;Douglas R. Taylor;Heather D. Ishak

  • Do managed bees drive parasite spread and emergence in wild bees

    Peter Graystock;Edward J. Blane;Quinn S. McFrederick;Dave Goulson

  • Flowers and Wild Megachilid Bees Share Microbes.

    Quinn S. McFrederick;Jason M. Thomas;John L. Neff;Hoang Q. Vuong

  • Origin and effect of Alpha 2.2 Acetobacteraceae in honey bee larvae and description of Parasaccharibacter apium gen. nov., sp. nov.

    Vanessa Corby-Harris;Vanessa Corby-Harris;Lucy A. Snyder;Melissa R. Schwan;Patrick Maes;Patrick Maes

  • Air pollution modifies floral scent trails

    Quinn S. McFrederick;James C. Kathilankal;Jose D. Fuentes

  • Standard methods for research on Apis mellifera gut symbionts

    Philipp Engel;Rosalind R James;Ryuichi Koga;Waldan K Kwong

  • Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes : Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases

    Adriana De Palma;Adriana De Palma;Stefan Abrahamczyk;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • Characterization of pollen and bacterial community composition in brood provisions of a small carpenter bee.

    Quinn S. McFrederick;Sandra M. Rehan

  • (More than) Hitchhikers through the network: The shared microbiome of bees and flowers

    Alexander Keller;Quinn S McFrederick;Prarthana Dharampal;Shawn Steffan

  • Dominant bee species and floral abundance drive parasite temporal dynamics in plant-pollinator communities.

    Peter Graystock;Peter Graystock;Peter Graystock;Wee Hao Ng;Kyle Parks;Amber D Tripodi

  • Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees

    S. Hollis Woodard;Sarah Federman;Rosalind R. James;Bryan N. Danforth

  • Effects of air pollution on biogenic volatiles and ecological interactions.

    Quinn S. McFrederick;Jose D. Fuentes;T’ai Roulston;James C. Kathilankal

  • Hunting for healthy microbiomes: determining the core microbiomes of Ceratina, Megalopta, and Apis bees and how they associate with microbes in bee collected pollen

    Peter Graystock;Sandra M. Rehan;Quinn S. McFrederick

  • Host species and developmental stage, but not host social structure, affects bacterial community structure in socially polymorphic bees.

    Quinn S. McFrederick;Quinn S. McFrederick;William T. Wcislo;Michael C. Hout;Ulrich G. Mueller

  • Drivers, Diversity, and Functions of the Solitary-Bee Microbiota.

    Anna Voulgari-Kokota;Quinn S. McFrederick;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Alexander Keller

  • Specificity between lactobacilli and hymenopteran hosts is the exception rather than the rule.

    Quinn S. McFrederick;Jamie J. Cannone;Robin R. Gutell;Katrin Kellner

  • Landscape simplification shapes pathogen prevalence in plant-pollinator networks.

    Laura L. Figueroa;Heather Grab;Wee Hao Ng;Christopher R. Myers

  • Wild Bee Pollen Usage and Microbial Communities Co-vary Across Landscapes.

    Quinn S. McFrederick;Sandra M. Rehan

  • Intensity of Nosema ceranae infection is associated with specific honey bee gut bacteria and weakly associated with gut microbiome structure

    Andrey Rubanov;Kaleigh A. Russell;Jason A. Rothman;James C. Nieh

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Dave Goulson
Dave Goulson University of Sussex
Steven J. Fonte
Steven J. Fonte Colorado State University
Ulrich G. Mueller
Ulrich G. Mueller The University of Texas at Austin
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter University of Würzburg
Patrick Lavelle
Patrick Lavelle Sorbonne University
Ingo Grass
Ingo Grass University of Hohenheim
Mick E. Hanley
Mick E. Hanley Plymouth University

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