Gill research group
insect ecology & evolution
Dr Andres Arce - Was a NERC funded PDRA in the group, and is now a University Lecturer at University of Suffolk
1. Behavioural and colony responses to pesticide exposure in bumblebees
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2. Bee population responses to environmental change
3. Bumblebee gut microbiomes
4. Gene expression after pesticide exposure
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5. Bee feeding preferences with chronic pesticide exposure
Publications
Johansson J, Arce A & Gill RJ (in press) How competition between overlapping generations can influence optimal egg-laying strategies in annual social insects. Oecologia
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Arce AN*, Cantwell-Jones A*, (+20 co-authors) & Gill RJ (2022). Signatures of increasing environmental stress in bumblebee wings over the past century: Insights from museum specimens, J. Animal Ecology.
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Mullin (14 authors), Gill RJ* & Barnes I* (2022). First large-scale quantification study of DNA preservation in insects from natural history collections using genome-wide sequencing. Methods in Ecology & Evolution.
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Colgan TJ, Arce AN, Gill RJ, Ramos Rodrigues A, Kanteh A, Duncan EJ, Li L, Chittka L & Wurm Y (2022) Genomic signatures of recent adaptation in a wild bumblebee. Molecular Biology & Evolution, 39, msab366.
Watrobska CM, Ramos Rodrigues A, Arce AN, Clarke J & Gill RJ (2022) Pollen source richness may be a poor predictor of bumblebee colony growth. Frontiers in Insect Science, 1, 741349.
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Smith DB, Arce AN, Ramos Rodrigues A, Bischoff PH, Burris D, Ahmed F & Gill RJ (2020) Insecticide exposure during brood or early-adult development reduces brain growth and impairs adult learning in bumblebees. in Proc. Roy. Soc. B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2442
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