E. D. Treanore

Built to change: dominance strategy changes with life stage in a primitively eusocial bee

This study shows that queen bees shift from aggressive to chemical signaling as they age to maintain reproductive dominance in their colony.

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

This study shows that bumble bee workers shift from reproductive-like to diapause-like physiology and gene expression as the colony ages.