Oldroyd, Benjamin - University of Sydney - School of Biological Sciences

研究领域

I am primarily interested in behavioural genetics and the evolution of social behaviour. Almost all of my research has been on honey bees, including the South African Cape bee, Asian honeybees (check out my book) and Australian native stingless bees Tetragonula and Austroplebia. I started out as a quantitative geneticist, working on practical problems of bee breeding. I then got involved with the population genetics of Africanized bees in central America. For the last 20 years have been working on the mechanisms by which social cohesion is maintained in bee colonies. In particular, I have bred a unique strain of bees in which workers lay eggs with high frequency. These 'anarchistic' bees provide a superb resource for investigating the mechanisms by which worker sterility is maintained in normal colonies. By comparing the behaviour and genetics of normal and anarchistic bees, we try to uncover the fundamental properties of social insects. Our ultimate goal is to isolate and characterise the genes that control worker sterility in social insects. For more information see the Research and Publication pages.

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Ronai, I., Oldroyd, B., Barton, D., Cabanes, G., Lim, J., Vergoz, V. (2016). Anarchy Is a Molecular Signature of Worker Sterility in the Honey Bee. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(1), 134-142. [More Information] Francisco, F., Santiago, L., Mizusawa, Y., Oldroyd, B., Arias, M. (2016). Genetic structure of island and mainland populations of a Neotropical bumble bee species. Journal of Insect Conservation, 20, 383-394. [More Information] Makinson, J., Schaerf, T., Rattanawannee, A., Oldroyd, B., Beekman, M. (2016). How does a swarm of the giant Asian honeybee Apis dorsata reach consensus? A study of the individual behaviour of scout bees. Insectes Sociaux, 63(3), 395-406. [More Information] Chapman, N., Harpur, B., Lim, J., Rinderer, T., Allsopp, M., Zayed, A., Oldroyd, B. (2016). Hybrid origins of Australian honeybees (Apis mellifera). Apidologie, 47(1), 26-34. [More Information] Remnant, E., Ashe, A., Young, P., Buchmann, G., Beekman, M., Allsopp, M., Suter, C., Drewell, R., Oldroyd, B. (2016). Parent-of-origin effects on genome-wide DNA methylation in the Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis) may be confounded by allele-specific methylation. BMC Genomics, 17(1), 1-14. [More Information] Francisco, F., Santiago, L., Mizusawa, Y., Oldroyd, B., Arias, M. (2016). Population structuring of the ubiquitous stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula in southern Brazil as revealed by microsatellite and mitochondrial markers. Insect Science, in press. [More Information] Byatt, M., Chapman, N., Latty, T., Oldroyd, B. (2016). The genetic consequences of the anthropogenic movement of social bees. Insectes Sociaux, 63(1), 15-24. [More Information] Chapman, N., Harpur, B., Lim, J., Rinderer, T., Allsopp, M., Zayed, A., Oldroyd, B. (2015). A SNP test to identify Africanized honeybees via proportion of 'African' ancestry. Molecular Ecology Resources, 15(6), 1346-1355. [More Information] Harpur, B., Chapman, N., Krimus, L., Maciukiewicz, P., Sandhu, V., Sood, K., Lim, J., Rinderer, T., Allsop, M., Oldroyd, B., et al (2015). Assessing patterns of admixture and ancestry in Canadian honey bees. Insectes Sociaux, 62(4), 479-489. [More Information] Tan, K., Wang, Y., Dong, S., Liu, X., Zhuang, D., Chen, W., Oldroyd, B. (2015). Associations between reproduction and work in workers of the Asian hive bee Apis cerana. Journal of Insect Physiology, 82, 33-37. [More Information] Nunes, T., Heard, T., Venturieri, G., Oldroyd, B. (2015). Emergency queens in Tetragonula carbonaria (Smith, 1854) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Austral Entomology, 54(2), 154-158. [More Information] Oldroyd, B., Aanen, D. (2015). Entomology: A Bee Farming a Fungus. Current Biology, 25(22), R1072-R104. [More Information] Oldroyd, B. (2015). Evolution: A Royal Seal for Wasp Eggs. Current Biology, 25(12), R492-R494. [More Information] Holmes, M., Tan, K., Wang, Z., Oldroyd, B., Beekman, M. (2015). Genetic reincarnation of workers as queens in the Eastern honeybee Apis cerana. Heredity, 114, 65-68. [More Information] Tan, K., Latty, T., Dong, S., Liu, X., Wang, C., Oldroyd, B. (2015). Individual honey bee (Apis cerana) foragers adjust their fuel load to match variability in forage reward. Scientific Reports, 5(16418), 1-7. [More Information] Chapman, N., Beekman, M., Allsopp, M., Rinderer, T., Lim, J., Oxley, P., Oldroyd, B. (2015). Inheritance of thelytoky in the honey bee Apis mellifera capensis. Heredity, 114(6), 584-592. [More Information] Tan, K., Dong, S., Liu, X., Chen, W., Wang, Y., Oldroyd, B., Latty, T. (2015). Phantom alternatives influence food preferences in the eastern honeybee Apis cerana. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84(2), 509-517. [More Information] Tan, K., Liu, X., Dong, S., Wang, C., Oldroyd, B. (2015). Pheromones affecting ovary activation and ovariole loss in the Asian honey bee Apis cerana. Journal of Insect Physiology, 74, 25-29. [More Information] Ronai, I., Barton, D., Oldroyd, B., Vergoz, V. (2015). Regulation of oogenesis in honey bee workers via programed cell death. Journal of Insect Physiology, 81, 36-41. [More Information] Manfredini, F., Brown, M., Vergoz, V., Oldroyd, B. (2015). RNA-sequencing elucidates the regulation of behavioural transitions associated with the mating process in honey bee queens. BMC Genomics, 16(1), 1-13. [More Information]