The Diversity Decline in Wild and Managed Honey Bee Populations Urges for an Integrated Conservation Approach

Semi-natural habitats promote winter survival of wild-living honeybees in an agricultural landscape

(2022) Benjamin Rutschmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Accelerated Varroa destructor population growth in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies is associated with visitation from non-natal bees

(2021) Kelly Kulhanek et al.   Scientific Reports

Deformed wing virus variant shift from 2010 to 2016 in managed and feral UK honey bee colonies

(2021) J. L. Kevill et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Colony fitness increases in the honey bee at queen mating frequencies higher than genetic diversity asymptote

(2021) Keith S. Delaplane et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Parallel evolution of Varroa resistance in honey bees: a common mechanism across continents?

(2021) Isobel Grindrod et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intensive human contact correlates with smaller brains: differential brain size reduction in cattle types

(2021) A. M. Balcarcel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

MtDNA Analysis Indicates Human-Induced Temporal Changes of Serbian Honey Bees Diversity

(2021) Marija Tanasković et al.   Insects

The Buzz Changes within Time: Native Apis mellifera mellifera Honeybee Subspecies Less and Less Popular among Polish Beekeepers Since 1980

(2021) Małgorzata Bieńkowska et al.   Agriculture-Basel

Mitochondrial and nuclear diversity of colonies of varying origins: contrasting patterns inferred from the intergenic tRNAleu-cox2 region and immune SNPs

(2021) Dora Henriques et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Unprecedented Density and Persistence of Feral Honey Bees in Urban Environments of a Large SE-European City (Belgrade, Serbia)

(2021) Jovana Bila Dubaić et al.   Insects

Varroa destructor: A Complex Parasite, Crippling Honey Bees Worldwide

(2020) Kirsten S. Traynor et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Effects of selection and local adaptation on resilience and economic suitability in Apis mellifera carnica

(2020) Marin Kovačić et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Honey bee colony winter loss rates for 35 countries participating in the COLOSS survey for winter 2018–2019, and the effects of a new queen on the risk of colony winter loss

(2020) Alison Gray et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Declining genetic diversity of European honeybees along the twentieth century

(2020) Gonçalo Espregueira Themudo et al.   Scientific Reports

Geographical Distribution and Selection of European Honey Bees Resistant to Varroa destructor

(2020) Yves Le Conte et al.   Insects

Darwinian black box selection for resistance to settled invasive Varroa destructor parasites in honey bees

(2019) Tjeerd Blacquière et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series

(2019) Antoine Fages et al.   CELL

The Conservation of Native Honey Bees Is Crucial

(2019) Fabrice Requier et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Contribution of European forests to safeguard wild honeybee populations

(2019) Fabrice Requier et al.   Conservation Letters

Introgression in native populations of Apis mellifera mellifera L: implications for conservation

(2018) Jonathan S. Ellis et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Acute bee paralysis virus occurs in the Asian honey bee Apis cerana and parasitic mite Tropilaelaps mercedesae

(2018) Pichaya Chanpanitkitchote et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

The neglected bee trees: European beech forests as a home for feral honey bee colonies

(2018) Patrick Laurenz Kohl et al.   PeerJ

The Darwin cure for apiculture? Natural selection and managed honeybee health

(2016) Peter Neumann et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Risks and benefits of the biological interface between managed and wild bee pollinators

(2016) Christian W. W. Pirk et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Feralisation targets different genomic loci to domestication in the chicken

(2016) M. Johnsson et al.   Nature Communications

An invasive social insect overcomes genetic load at the sex locus

(2016) Rosalyn Gloag et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Honeybee health in Africa—a review

(2015) Christian W. W. Pirk et al.   APIDOLOGIE

A survivor population of wild colonies of European honeybees in the northeastern United States: investigating its genetic structure

(2015) Thomas D. Seeley et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Multiple host shifts by the emerging honeybee parasite,Varroa jacobsoni

(2015) J. M. K. Roberts et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Museum samples reveal rapid evolution by wild honey bees exposed to a novel parasite

(2015) Alexander S. Mikheyev et al.   Nature Communications

Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

(2015) David Kleijn et al.   Nature Communications

Honey Bee Colonies Headed by Hyperpolyandrous Queens Have Improved Brood Rearing Efficiency and Lower Infestation Rates of Parasitic Varroa Mites

(2015) Keith S. Delaplane et al.   PLoS One

The Territorial Invasion ofApis floreain Africa

(2014) G. Bezabih et al.   AFRICAN ENTOMOLOGY

Preliminary observations on possible pathogen spill-over from Apis mellifera to Apis cerana

(2014) Eva Forsgren et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Extreme polyandry improves a honey bee colony’s ability to track dynamic foraging opportunities via greater activity of inspecting bees

(2013) Heather R. Mattila et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Conserving genetic diversity in the honeybee: Comments on Harpuret al. (2012)

(2013) Pilar De la Rúa et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Rural avenues as a refuge for feral honey bee population

(2012) Andrzej Oleksa et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Domestication of honey bees was associated with expansion of genetic diversity

(2012) BENJAMIN P. OLDROYD   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Management increases genetic diversity of honey bees via admixture

(2012) BROCK A. HARPUR et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Breeding for resistance toVarroa destructorin Europe

(2010) Ralph Büchler et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Conserving diversity and vitality for honey bee breeding

(2010) Marina D Meixner et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

(2010) Simon G. Potts et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Biodiversity, conservation and current threats to European honeybees

(2009) Pilar De la Rúa et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Estimating the Density of Honeybee Colonies across Their Natural Range to Fill the Gap in Pollinator Decline Censuses

(2009) RODOLFO JAFFÉ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A molecular phylogeny of the genusApissuggests that the Giant Honey Bee of the Philippines,A. breviligulaMaa, and the Plains Honey Bee of southern India,A. indicaFabricius, are valid species

(2009) NATHAN LO et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Long-Term Global Trends in Crop Yield and Production Reveal No Current Pollination Shortage but Increasing Pollinator Dependency

(2008) Marcelo A. Aizen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY