Etya Amsalem

Associate Professor of Entomology

Etya Amsalem

Research Summary

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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Most Recent Publications

Hormetic response to pesticides in diapausing bees

Etya Amsalem, Nathan Derstine, Cameron Murray, 2025, Biology Letters

Post-transcriptional regulation of Dufour’s gland reproductive signals in bumble bees

N Derstine, Tatiana Laremore, Etya Amsalem, 2024, BMC Genomics on p. 976

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

Communication Between Honeybees: More than Just a Dance in the Dark

Etya Amsalem, 2023,

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 on p. 1656

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

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

Impacts and mechanisms of CO<sub>2</sub> 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 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

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

Most-Cited Papers

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

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

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

Mario Padilla, Etya Amsalem, N Altman, Abraham Hefetz, Christina M. Grozinger, 2016, Royal Society Open Science on p. 160576

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

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

The effect of intrinsic physiological traits on diapause survival and their underlying mechanisms in an annual bee species Bombus impatiens

Erin Treanore, Etya Amsalem, 2020, Conservation Physiology

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

Etya Amsalem, Mario Padilla, Paul Schreiber, N Altman, Abraham Hefetz, Christina 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

Shift in worker physiology and gene expression pattern from reproductive to diapause-like with colony age in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens

Erin D. Treanore, Jacklyn M. Kiner, Mackenzie E. Kerner, Etya Amsalem, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology

Optimizing laboratory rearing of a key pollinator, bombus impatiens

Erin Treanore, Katherine Barie, Nathan Derstine, Kaitlin Gadebusch, Margarita Orlova, Monique Porter, Frederick Purnell, Etya Amsalem, 2021, Insects