Heather Hines
Associate Professor of Biology and Entomology
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208 Mueller Lab
University Park, PA - hmh19@psu.edu
- 814-863-8830
Research Summary
Applies genomic, transcriptomic, phylogenomic, and bioinformatic approaches to study the evolution and genetics of diverse traits in bees and wasps. This includes study of mimetic color diversification, plant gall induction, novel morphologies, speciation, and social evolution.
Huck Affiliations
- Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
- Center for Pollinator Research
- Insect Biodiversity Center
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Publication Tags
Color Genes Butterflies Phenotype Genomics Population Genetics Hymenoptera Bombus Gene Expression Ecology Phylogeny Gene Genome Mimicry Bees Sampling Mexico Pigmentation Population Biological Sciences Radiation Genetic Selection Loci History Homeobox GenesMost Recent Papers
The role of toxic nectar secondary compounds in driving differential bumble bee preferences for milkweed flowers
Eris Villalona, Briana Ezray, Erica Laveaga, Anurag Agrawal, Jared Ali, Heather Hines, 2020, Oecologia on p. 619-630
Substantial genetic divergence and lack of recent gene flow support cryptic speciation in a colour polymorphic bumble bee (Bombus bifarius) species complex
Guillaume Ghisbain, Jeffrey Lozier, Sarthok Rahman, Briana Ezray, Li Tian, Jonah Ulmer, Sam Heraghty, James Strange, Pierre Rasmont, Heather Hines, 2020, SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY
Inverse dispersal patterns in a group of ant parasitoids (Hymenoptera
Austin J. Baker, John M. Heraty, Jason Mottern, Junxia Zhang, Heather M. Hines, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, 2020, Systematic Entomology on p. 1-19
Unsupervised machine learning reveals mimicry complexes in bumblebees occur along a perceptual continuum
Briana D. Ezray, Drew C. Wham, Carrie E. Hill, Heather M. Hines, 2019, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Unsupervised machine learning reveals mimicry complexes in bumblebees occur along a perceptual continuum
Briana Ezray, Drew Wham, Carrie Hill, Heather Hines, 2019, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Ecology and evolution of cuckoo bumble bees
Patrick Lhomme, Heather M. Hines, 2019, Annals of the Entomological Society of America on p. 122-140
From Spinning Silk to Spreading Saliva: Mouthpart Remodeling in Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
Istvan Miko, Sarthok Rahman, Anne Jones, Mark Townley, Brandon Gominho, Sulav Paudel, S Stupski, Heather Hines, Rudolf Schilder, 2019, Insect Systematics and Diversity on p. 2
Evolutionary genetics in insect phenotypic radiations: the value of a comparative genomic approach
Heather Hines, Sarthok Rahman, 2019, Current opinion in insect science
A homeotic shift late in development drives mimetic color variation in a bumble bee
Li Tian, Sarthok Rasique Rahman, Briana D. Ezray, Luca Franzini, James P. Strange, Patrick Lhomme, Heather M. Hines, 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 11857-11865
Unsupervised machine learning reveals mimicry complexes in bumblebees occur along a perceptual continuum
Briana Ezray, Drew Wham, Carrie Hill, Heather Hines, 2019, Proceedings of the Royal Society B on p. 20191501
Most-Cited Papers
Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species
Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra, James R. Walters, Adriana D. Briscoe, John W. Davey, Annabel Whibley, Nicola J. Nadeau, Aleksey V. Zimin, Camilo Salazar, Laura C. Ferguson, Simon H. Martin, Camilo Salazar, James J. Lewis, Sebastian Adler, Seung Joon Ahn, Dean A. Baker, Simon W. Baxter, Nicola L. Chamberlain, Chauhan Ritika, Brian A. Counterman, Tamas Dalmay, Lawrence E. Gilbert, Karl Gordon, David G. Heckel, Heather M. Hines, Katharina J. Hoff, Peter W.H. Holland, Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly, Francis M. Jiggins, Robert T. Jones, Durrell D. Kapan, Paul Kersey, Gerardo Lamas, Daniel Lawson, Daniel Mapleson, Luana S. Maroja, Arnaud Martin, Simon Moxon, William J. Palmer, Riccardo Papa, Alexie Papanicolaou, Yann ick Pauchet, David A. Ray, Neil Rosser, Steven L. Salzberg, Megan A. Supple, Alison Surridge, Ayse Tenger-Trolander, Heiko Vogel, Paul A. Wilkinson, Derek Wilson, 2012, Nature on p. 94-98
Optix drives the repeated convergent evolution of butterfly wing pattern mimicry
Robert D. Reed, Riccardo Papa, Arnaud Martin, Heather M. Hines, Brian A. Counterman, Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Chris D. Jiggins, Nicola L. Chamberlain, Marcus R. Kronforst, Rui Chen, Georg Halder, H. Frederik Nijhout, W. Owen McMillan, 2011, Science on p. 1137-1141
Finding Our Way through Phenotypes
Andrew Robert Deans, Suzanna E. Lewis, Eva Huala, Salvatore S. Anzaldo, Michael Ashburner, James P. Balhoff, David C. Blackburn, Judith A. Blake, J. Gordon Burleigh, Bruno Chanet, Laurel D. Cooper, Mélanie Courtot, Sándor Csösz, Hong Cui, Wasila Dahdul, Sandip Das, T. Alexander Dececchi, Agnes Dettai, Rui Diogo, Robert E. Druzinsky, Michel Dumontier, Nico M. Franz, Frank Friedrich, George V. Gkoutos, Melissa Haendel, Luke J. Harmon, Terry F. Hayamizu, Yongqun He, Heather M. Hines, Nizar Ibrahim, Laura M. Jackson, Pankaj Jaiswal, Christina James-Zorn, Sebastian Köhler, Guillaume Lecointre, Hilmar Lapp, Carolyn J. Lawrence, Nicolas Le Novère, John G. Lundberg, James Macklin, Austin R. Mast, Peter E. Midford, Istvan Miko, Christopher J. Mungall, Anika Oellrich, David Osumi-Sutherland, Helen Parkinson, Martín J. Ramírez, Stefan Richter, Peter N. Robinson, Alan Ruttenberg, Katja S. Schulz, Erik Segerdell, Katja C. Seltmann, Michael J. Sharkey, Aaron D. Smith, Barry Smith, Chelsea D. Specht, R. Burke Squires, Robert W. Thacker, Anne Thessen, Jose Fernandez-Triana, Mauno Vihinen, Peter D. Vize, Lars Vogt, Christine E. Wall, Ramona L. Walls, Monte Westerfeld, Robert A. Wharton, Christian S. Wirkner, James B. Woolley, Matthew J. Yoder, Aaron M. Zorn, Paula Mabee, 2015, PLoS biology on p. e1002033
Genomic hotspots for adaptation
Brian A. Counterman, Felix Araujo-Perez, Heather M. Hines, Simon W. Baxter, Clay M. Morrison, Daniel P. Lindstrom, Riccardo Papa, Laura Ferguson, Mathieu Joron, Richard H. Ffrench-Constant, Christopher P. Smith, Dahlia M. Nielsen, Rui Chen, Chris D. Jiggins, Robert D. Reed, Georg Halder, Jim Mallet, W. Owen McMillan, 2010, PLoS genetics
Wing patterning gene redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies
Heather M. Hines, Brian A. Counterman, Riccardo Papa, Priscila Albuquerque De Moura, Marcio Z. Cardoso, Mauricio Linares, James Mallet, Robert D. Reed, Chris D. Jiggins, Marcus R. Kronforst, W. Owen McMillan, 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 19666-19671
The gene cortex controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths
Nicola J. Nadeau, Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Annabel Whibley, Megan A. Supple, Suzanne V. Saenko, Richard W.R. Wallbank, Grace C. Wu, Luana Maroja, Laura Ferguson, Joseph J. Hanly, Heather M. Hines, Camilo Salazar, Richard M. Merrill, Andrea J. Dowling, Richard H. Ffrench-Constant, Violaine Llaurens, Mathieu Joron, W. Owen McMillan, Chris D. Jiggins, 2016, Nature on p. 106-110
Complex modular architecture around a simple toolkit of wing pattern genes
Steven M. Van Belleghem, Pasi Rastas, Alexie Papanicolaou, Simon H. Martin, Carlos F. Arias, Megan A. Supple, Joseph J. Hanly, James Mallet, James J. Lewis, Heather M. Hines, Mayte Ruiz, Camilo Salazar, Mauricio Linares, Gilson R.P. Moreira, Chris D. Jiggins, Brian A. Counterman, W. Owen McMillan, Riccardo Papa, 2017, Nature Ecology and Evolution
Geographical patterns of genetic divergence in the widespread Mesoamerican bumble bee Bombus ephippiatus (Hymenoptera
Michelle A. Duennes, Jeffrey D. Lozier, Heather M. Hines, Sydney A. Cameron, 2012, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution on p. 219-231
Genomic architecture of adaptive color pattern divergence and convergence in Heliconius butterflies
Megan A. Supple, Heather M. Hines, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra, James J. Lewis, Dahlia M. Nielsen, Christine Lavoie, David A. Ray, Camilo Salazar, W. Owen McMillan, Brian A. Counterman, 2013, Genome research on p. 1248-1257
Transcriptome analysis reveals novel patterning and pigmentation genes underlying Heliconius butterfly wing pattern variation
Heather M. Hines, Riccardo Papa, Mayte Ruiz, Alexie Papanicolaou, Charles Wang, H. F. Nijhout, W. O. McMillan, Robert D. Reed, 2012, BMC genomics on p. 288
News Articles Featuring Heather Hines
Feb 11, 2020
Climate Change Has Driven Serious Declines in World’s Bumblebees
The number of habitats in North America that bumblebees occupy has fallen by almost 50 percent
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Feb 06, 2020
Bumblebees Are Going Extinct In A Time of Climate Chaos
Loss of the vital pollinators, due in part to temperature extremes and fluctuations, could have dire consequences for ecosystems and agriculture.
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May 01, 2019
How The Bumble Bee Got Its Stripes
Researchers have discovered a gene that drives color differences within a species of bumble bees. This discovery helps to explain the highly diverse color patterns among bumble bee species as well as how mimicry — individuals in an area adopting similar color patterns — evolves.
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May 01, 2019
Researchers Identify ‘Color Switch’ Gene in Black-Tailed Bumblebees
Penn State researcher Heather Hines and colleagues investigated the genetic basis of color in the black-tailed bumblebee, which exhibits two regional color patterns.
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