Beryl M. Jones

The fire ant social chromosome exerts a major influence on genome regulation

The paper investigates how a supergene in fire ants influences genome regulation through chromatin accessibility, enhancer activity, and gene expression.

Repeated shifts in sociality are associated with fine-tuning of highly conserved and lineage-specific enhancers in a socially flexible bee

The paper identifies enhancer activity differences between social and solitary populations of Lasioglossum albipes, linking cis-regulatory variation to social behavior evolution.

Individual differences in honey bee behavior enabled by plasticity in brain gene regulatory networks

The paper identifies brain gene regulatory network plasticity as a mechanism underlying individual differences in honey bee behavior.

Automated monitoring of animal behaviour with barcodes and convolutional neural networks

The paper combines barcode tracking with convolutional neural networks to monitor honeybee behavior and identify distinct social networks in food exchange.

Brain microRNAs among social and solitary bees

The paper examines the relationship between social organization and lineage-specific microRNAs in bees, finding that novel miRNAs may coevolve with genes but do not significantly influence social evolution.

Draft genome assembly and population genetics of an agricultural pollinator, the solitary alkali bee (Halictidae: Nomia melanderi)

The paper presents a draft genome assembly of the alkali bee and identifies genes under selection and population genetic patterns.