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Jay D. Evans

scientist, USDA
Verified email at usda.gov
Cited by 33594

A metagenomic survey of microbes in honey bee colony collapse disorder

…, S Conlan, EC Holmes, G Palacios, JD Evans… - Science, 2007 - science.org
In colony collapse disorder (CCD), honey bee colonies inexplicably lose their workers. CCD
has resulted in a loss of 50 to 90% of colonies in beekeeping operations across the United …

Socialized medicine: individual and communal disease barriers in honey bees

JD Evans, M Spivak - Journal of invertebrate pathology, 2010 - Elsevier
Honey bees are attacked by numerous parasites and pathogens toward which they present
a variety of individual and group-level defenses. In this review, we briefly introduce the many …

Bees brought to their knees: microbes affecting honey bee health

JD Evans, RS Schwarz - Trends in microbiology, 2011 - cell.com
The biology and health of the honey bee Apis mellifera has been of interest to human societies
for centuries. Research on honey bee health is surging, in part due to new tools and the …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny

…, CB Do, H Ebling, K Edwards, T Eickbush, JD Evans… - Nature, 2007 - hal.science
Comparative analysis of multiple genomes in a phylogenetic framework dramatically improves
the precision and sensitivity of evolutionary inference, producing more robust results than …

[HTML][HTML] Colony collapse disorder: a descriptive study

D VanEngelsdorp, JD Evans, C Saegerman, C Mullin… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Over the last two winters, there have been large-scale, unexplained losses of
managed honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies in the United States. In the absence of a …

Immune pathways and defence mechanisms in honey bees Apis mellifera

JD Evans, K Aronstein, YP Chen, C Hetru… - Insect molecular …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Social insects are able to mount both group‐level and individual defences against pathogens.
Here we focus on individual defences, by presenting a genome‐wide analysis of immunity …

Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species

…, N Elango, E Elhaik, O Ermolaeva, JD Evans… - Science, 2010 - science.org
We report here genome sequences and comparative analyses of three closely related
parasitoid wasps: Nasonia vitripennis, N. giraulti, and N. longicornis. Parasitoids are important …

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

…, CE Mouden, ST Emlen, J Evans, R Ferriere, J Field… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Arising from MA Nowak, CE Tarnita & EO Wilson Nature466, 1057–1062 (2010)10.1038/nature09205
; Nowak et al. reply Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of …

Nosema ceranae is a long-present and wide-spread microsporidian infection of the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) in the United States

Y Chen, JD Evans, IB Smith, JS Pettis - Journal of invertebrate pathology, 2008 - Elsevier
Honey bee samples collected between 1995 and 2007 from 12 states were examined for
the presence of Nosema infections. Our results showed that Nosema ceranae is a wide-spread …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogen webs in collapsing honey bee colonies

…, D Lopez, JS Pettis, D Vanengelsdorp, JD Evans - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Recent losses in honey bee colonies are unusual in their severity, geographical distribution,
and, in some cases, failure to present recognized characteristics of known disease. …