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Sean O'Donnell is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the biological sciences, with a strong focus on agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work emphasizes topics such as insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, and insect and pesticide research. Additional research interests include animal behavior and reproduction, neurobiology and insect physiology, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

O'Donnell's notable recent publications include:

  • "Evolutionary and Ecological Pressures Shaping Social Wasps Collective Defenses" (2020), published in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
  • "Individual reflectance of solar radiation confers a thermoregulatory benefit to dimorphic males bees (Centris pallida) using distinct microclimates" (2023), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Historical evaluation of the in vivo adventitious virus test and its potential for replacement with next generation sequencing (NGS)" (2023), published in Biologicals
  • "Microbial symbionts are shared between ants and their associated beetles" (2023), published in Environmental Microbiology
  • "Species differ in worker body size effects on critical thermal limits in seed-harvesting desert ants (Messor ebeninus and M. arenarius)" (2020), published in Insectes Sociaux

Frequent collaborators of Sean O'Donnell include:

  • Meghan Barrett
  • Hooman Kamel
  • New York
  • Bernard Chang
  • Dena B. Dubal

O'Donnell has published several papers in the following venues multiple times:

  • JAMA Neurology
  • Insectes Sociaux
  • Ecological Entomology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Insect Behavior

Their subfields of study focus on genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, insect science, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and ecology. These specific areas shape their broad research agenda surrounding the physiology, behavior, and ecological interactions of insects and other small animals.

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Energy, density, and constraints to species richness: ant assemblages along a productivity gradient.

    Michael Kaspari;Sean O'Donnell;James R. Kercher

  • Reproductive caste determination in eusocial wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae).

    Sean O'Donnell

  • Three energy variables predict ant abundance at a geographical scale

    M Kaspari;L Alonso;S O'Donnell

  • Use of track transects to measure the relative occurrence of some boreal mammals in uncut forest and regeneration stands

    I. D. Thompson;I. J. Davidson;S. O'Donnell;F. Brazeau

  • Microhabitat and body size effects on heat tolerance: implications for responses to climate change (army ants: Formicidae, Ecitoninae).

    Kaitlin M. Baudier;Abigail E. Mudd;Shayna C. Erickson;Sean O'Donnell

  • High rates of army ant raids in the Neotropics and implications for ant colony and community structure

    Michael Kaspari;Sean O’Donnell

  • Assured fitness returns favor sociality in a mass-provisioning sweat bee, Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

    Adam R. Smith;William T. Wcislo;Sean O'Donnell

  • The role of male disease susceptibility in the evolution of haplodiploid insect societies

    Sean O'Donnell;Samuel N. Beshers

  • Dominance and polyethism in the eusocial wasp Mischocyttarus mastigophorus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

    Sean O'Donnell

  • Methoprene accelerates age polyethism in workers of a social wasp (Polybia occidentalis)

    Sean O'donnell;Robert L. Jeanne

  • The structured diversity of specialized gut symbionts of the New World army ants.

    Piotr Łukasik;Justin A. Newton;Jon G. Sanders;Yi Hu

  • Social dominance, task performance and nutrition: implications for reproduction in eusocial wasps

    Daniel A. Markiewicz;Sean O'Donnell

  • Distributed cognition and social brains: reductions in mushroom body investment accompanied the origins of sociality in wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

    Sean O'Donnell;Susan J. Bulova;Sara DeLeon;Paulina Khodak

  • Forager specialization and the control of nest repair in Polybia occidentalis Olivier (Hymenoptera : Vespidae)

    S. O'Donnell;R. L. Jeanne

  • Individual and colony factors in bumble bee division of labor (Bombus bifarius nearcticus Handl; Hymenoptera, Apidae).

    S. O'Donnell;M. Reichardt;R. Foster

  • Mushroom body structural change is associated with division of labor in eusocial wasp workers (Polybia aequatorialis, Hymenoptera: Vespidae).

    Sean O'Donnell;Nicole A. Donlan;Theresa A. Jones

  • Army ants in four forests: geographic variation in raid rates and species composition

    Sean O'donnell;John Lattke;Scott Powell;Michael Kaspari

  • Necrophagy by neotropical swarm-founding wasps (Hymenoptera : Vespidae, Epiponini)

    Sean O'Donnell

  • Erythritol, a non-nutritive sugar alcohol sweetener and the main component of truvia®, is a palatable ingested insecticide

    Kaitlin M. Baudier;Simon D. Kaschock-Marenda;Nirali Patel;Katherine L. Diangelus

  • Lifelong patterns of forager behaviour in a tropical swarm-founding wasp : effects of specialization and activity level on longevity

    Sean O'Donnell;Robert L. Jeanne

  • Thresholds of Response in Nest Thermoregulation by Worker Bumble Bees, Bombus bifarius nearcticus (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    Sean O'Donnell;Robin L. Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Jeanne
Robert L. Jeanne University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael Kaspari
Michael Kaspari University of Oklahoma
Daniel J. C. Kronauer
Daniel J. C. Kronauer Rockefeller University
William T. Wcislo
William T. Wcislo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Theresa A. Jones
Theresa A. Jones The University of Texas at Austin
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Nicola S. Clayton
Nicola S. Clayton University of Cambridge
Fiona Maisels
Fiona Maisels Wildlife Conservation Society
Corrie S. Moreau
Corrie S. Moreau Cornell University
Frederick N. Scatena
Frederick N. Scatena University of Pennsylvania

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