AP at China Agricultural University studying mimicry and sociobiology of bumble bees. Previously postdoc at @ Hines_lab
Beijing, China
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"Nature’s ultimate weapon repurposed! We discovered that certain mantises wield their hunting legs not just to catch prey—but to shield themselves from predators! Read the full study in Proc. R. Soc. B:
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By collaborating with the @Hines_Lab and @PaulWilliamsNHM, we deciphered the evolutionary history of the most colorful bumblebee mimicry complex in southeast Asia. Our study is just published on Science Advances, and more excitingly, our bee is on the COVER! @ScienceAdvances
While much of the research on Müllerian mimicry has focused on neotropical butterflies, scientists now use high-resolution genome-wide SNP markers to untangle the evolutionary history of two mimetic species of bumblebees.
Learn more in this week’s issue: scim.ag/7iE
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While much of the research on Müllerian mimicry has focused on neotropical butterflies, scientists now use high-resolution genome-wide SNP markers to untangle the evolutionary history of two mimetic species of bumblebees.
Learn more in this week’s issue: scim.ag/7iE
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The genetics of color pattern diversity of a SE Asian bumblebee is uncovered by our work on MBE! HOX loci is AGAIN implicated! Together with our previous work on a north American species, we show that hox loci are genomic hotspots for color radiation in Bombus!
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In SE China, early blooming rhododendrons are important source of pollen and nectar for spring bombus queens. In late April at Fu'e Mountain near Shaoxing, hundreds of big, fat but stunning B. bicoloratus queens can be spotted visiting Rhododendron pulchrum, starting from 6:30am.
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Let’s give a final goodbye to Bombus fernaldae 👋🏼 academic.oup.com/isd/article…
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China has the richest bumblebee diversity in the world, here is just a small portion of our 2020 collections. In contrast to their stunning coloration, their biology and threat status have yet to be studied.
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MY PAPER ON PREDICTING CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED EXTINCTION RISK IS OUT TODAY *IN SCIENCE*!!!!
I'm unbelievably excited for this &can't wait to tell yall what we found!!
Before I begin, huge shoutout to my incredible coauthors @jetkerr and @tnewbold31 1/n science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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Attention: NEW bumble bee species in town, here we recognize B. vancouverensis! First publication in 2020! Please RT to let others know!
@leebeeeeeee @Hines_Lab @bezray2
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Why Are Queens Broodless? Why not read this and find out? Jess Mullins, Amber Tripodi and I dug deep to find out. academic.oup.com/jee/advance…
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#FossilFriday: Morphometric analysis of fossil #bumblebees reveals their taxonomic affinities.
Paper: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.891.….
#Hymenoptera #Apidae #Entomology #FossilSpecies
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New review on "Global Trends in Bumble Bee Health" from Sydney Cameron & Ben Sadd in @AnnualReviews of #Entomology:
annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10… @Saddlab #BOMBUSS #Bumblebees #Pollinators
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Come work with us! Please RT!
The lab is recruiting graduate students/postdocs to work on mechanisms of gall induction in gall wasps and the genetics of mimetic coloration in bumble bees. Please retweet if you know people who might be interested! hineslab.org
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B. hypocrita long thought to be also widespread in N China, but turns out from genes that the N China bee ("ganjsuensis") is a convergent colour pattern of B. patagiatus: nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/…
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I'm excited to share that our paper quantifying color pattern mimicry in bumble bees using an unsupervised machine-learning approach is now published! @Hines_Lab @DrewWham
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Mystery solved! I'd been wondering what pollinates a Closed Bottle Gentian flower that never opens. Today I found out and was surprised that it was something as large as a bumblebee and that it spent a full minute inside before re-emerging. Nature is just too cool.
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Portraits of some bumble bees collected from a sub-alpine meadow of west Beijing. ID entirely based on color patterns so some mis id are expected. Any one help me confirm species name?
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Excited to announce the pre-print of our paper describing how unsupervised deep neural networks can be used to measure perceptual similarity of organismal color pattern!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
@DrewWham @Hines_Lab @SarthokR @leebeeeeeee
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Congratulations to Dr. Briana Ezray @bezray2 for obtaining her PhD in Entomology!
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