Etya Amsalem

Associate Professor of Entomology

Etya Amsalem

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The evolutionary development and the mechanistic basis of social behavior in insects using an integrative approach encompassing chemical, genetic and physiological tools

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Bees Bombus Queen Insects Bombus Impatiens Juvenile Hormones Bee Occupational Groups Impatiens Gene Expression Diapause Reproduction Social Behavior Aggression Stupor Biosynthesis Caste Pheromones Insects Insecta Genes Hydrocarbons Vitellogenins Carbon Dioxide Ovary Social Class

Most Recent Publications

The influence of the social environment on larval development and resulting caste in Bombus impatiens

Katherine Barie, Etya Amsalem, 2023, Animal Behaviour on p. 49-57

Symptomatic Infection with Vairimorpha spp. Decreases Diapause Survival in a Wild Bumble Bee Species (Bombus griseocollis)

Margarita Orlova, Monique Porter, Heather M. Hines, Etya Amsalem, 2023, Animals

The Effect of Pollen Diet Composition and Quantity on Diapause Survival and Performance in an Annual Pollinator (Bombus Impatiens)

E. D. Treanore, A. V. Ramos-Medero, J. Garcia, E. Amsalem, 2023, Integrative Organismal Biology

The effect of bumble bee gynes’ reproductive status on the response to CO<sub>2</sub> narcosis

Rya Seltzer, Adi Domer, Levona Bodner, Sofia Bouchebti, Maya Malka, Etya Amsalem, Eran Levin, 2023, Journal of Apicultural Research on p. 1043-1051

Differential gene expression underlying the biosynthesis of Dufour's gland signals in Bombus impatiens

Nathan Derstine, David Galbraith, Gabriel Villar, Etya Amsalem, 2023, Current Research in Insect Science

Impacts and mechanisms of CO2 narcosis in bumble bees: narcosis depends on dose, caste and mating status and is not induced by anoxia

Anna Cressman, Etya Amsalem, 2023, Journal of Experimental Biology

The effect of the brood and the queen on early gene expression in bumble bee workers' brains

Priscila K.F. Santos, David A. Galbraith, Jesse Starkey, Etya Amsalem, 2022, Scientific Reports

CO<sub>2</sub> narcosis induces a metabolic shift mediated via juvenile hormone in Bombus impatiens gynes

Katherine Barie, Eran Levin, Etya Amsalem, 2022, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Examining the individual and additive effects of cold storage and CO<sub>2</sub> narcosis on queen survival and reproduction in bumble bees

Erin D. Treanore, Etya Amsalem, 2022, Journal of Insect Physiology

A Gland of Many Uses: a Diversity of Compounds in the Labial Glands of the Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens Suggests Multiple Signaling Functions

Margarita Orlova, Gabriel Villar, Abraham Hefetz, Jocelyn G. Millar, Etya Amsalem, 2022, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 270-282

Most-Cited Papers

Exploring the role of juvenile hormone and vitellogenin in reproduction and social behavior in bumble bees

Etya Amsalem, Osnat Malka, Christina Grozinger, Abraham Hefetz, 2014, BMC Evolutionary Biology

The Physiological and Genomic Bases of Bumble Bee Social Behaviour

Etya Amsalem, Christina M. Grozinger, Mario Padilla, Abraham Hefetz, 2015, Advances in Insect Physiology on p. 37-93

Conservation and modification of genetic and physiological toolkits underpinning diapause in bumble bee queens

Etya Amsalem, David A. Galbraith, Jonathan Cnaani, Peter E.A. Teal, Christina M. Grozinger, 2015, Molecular Ecology on p. 5596-5615

Gonadotropic and physiological functions of juvenile hormone in bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) workers

Hagai Shpigler, Etya Amsalem, Zachary Y. Huang, Mira Cohen, Adam J. Siegel, Abraham Hefetz, Guy Bloch, 2014, PLoS One on p. e100650

A conserved class of queen pheromones? Re-evaluating the evidence in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens)

Etya Amsalem, Margarita Orlova, Christina M. Grozinger, 2015, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Precocene-I inhibits juvenile hormone biosynthesis, ovarian activation, aggression and alters sterility signal production in bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) workers

E. Amsalem, P. Teal, C. M. Grozinger, A. Hefetz, 2014, Journal of Experimental Biology on p. 3178-3185

Chemical communication is not sufficient to explain reproductive inhibition in the bumblebee bombus impatiens

Mario Padilla, Etya Amsalem, Naomi Altman, Abraham Hefetz, Christina M. Grozinger, 2016, Royal Society Open Science

Evaluating the molecular, physiological and behavioral impacts of CO<sub>2</sub> narcosis in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens)

Etya Amsalem, Christina M. Grozinger, 2017, Journal of Insect Physiology on p. 57-65

Do Bumble Bee, Bombus impatiens, Queens Signal their Reproductive and Mating Status to their Workers?

Etya Amsalem, Mario Padilla, Paul M. Schreiber, Naomi S. Altman, Abraham Hefetz, Christina M. Grozinger, 2017, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 563-572

The road to sociality: brood regulation of worker reproduction in the simple eusocial bee Bombus impatiens

Jesse Starkey, Ahja Brown, Etya Amsalem, 2019, Animal Behaviour on p. 57-65