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(*student researchers, **contributed equally)
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Kristin E. Habel*, Fatima G. Ali*, Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2007.
Alternative measures of resistance to
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
infection in
Drosophila melanogaster
. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
.
*highlighted in Faculty of 1000
Joep M.S. Burger, Dae Sung Hwangbo, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2007.
The functional costs and benefits of dietary restriction in
Drosophila
.
Aging Cell
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Ana Clara Pontaroli, Lawrence J. Shimkets, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Kristin E. Habel*, Daniel E.L. Promislow. 2007.
Geographical distribution and diversity of bacteria associated with natural populations of
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
.
Chih-Horng Kuo, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2008.
The unavoidable costs and unexpected benefits of parasitism: population and metapopulation models of parasite-mediated competition.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris and Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2008.
Host ecology shapes geographical variation for resistance to bacterial infection in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Journal of Animal Ecology
.
Teresa Joy*, Anam Arik, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Adiv Johnson*, Michael A. Riehle. 2010.
The impact of larval and adult dietary restriction on lifespan, reproduction and growth in the mosquito
Aedes aegypti
.
Experimental Gerontology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris**, Anna Drexler**, Laurel Watkins de Jong*, Yevgeniya Antonova, Nazzy Pakpour, Rolf Zeigler, Frank Ramberg, Jessica M. Brown, Shirley Luckhart, Michael A. Riehle. 2011.
Activation of
Akt
signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in
Anopheles stephensi
mosquitoes.
PLoS Pathogens.
*named one of
Time’s
50 best inventions of 2010
Nazzy Pakpour, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Gabriel P. Green, Hannah M. Smithers, Kong W. Cheung, Michael A. Riehle, Shirley Luckhart. 2012.
Ingested human insulin inhibits the mosquito NF-κB-dependent immune response to
Plasmodium falciparum
.
Journal of Innate Immunity
.
Kirk E. Anderson, Timothy H. Sheehan, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes*, Lucy Snyder*, Melissa R. Schwan*, Alexander Walton*, Beryl M. Jones*, Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2013.
Microbial ecology of the hive and pollination landscape: bacterial associates from floral nectar, the alimentary tract and stored food of honey bees (
Apis mellifera
).
PLoS One
.
Kirk E. Anderson, Andreas Johansson, Tim H. Sheehan*, Brendon M. Mott, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Laurel Johnstone, Ryan Sprissler, William Fitz. 2013.
Draft genome sequences of two Bifidobacterium sp. from the honey bee (
Apis mellifera
).
Gut Pathogens
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Beryl M. Jones*, Alexander Walton*, Melissa R. Schwan* Kirk E. Anderson. 2014.
Transcriptional markers of sub-optimal nutrition in developing
Apis mellifera
nurse workers.
BMC Genomics
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Patrick Maes*, Kirk E. Anderson. 2014.
The bacterial communities associated with honey bee (
Apis mellifera
) foragers.
PLoS One
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Melissa R. Schwan*, Lucy Snyder*, Patrick Maes* Kirk E. Anderson. 2014.
Origin and effect of Acetobacteraceae Alpha 2.2 in honey bee larvae and description of
Parasaccharibacter apium
, gen. nov., sp. nov.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
.
*AEM spotlight article
Kirk E. Anderson, Mark J. Carroll, Timothy H. Sheehan*, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes*, Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2014.
Hive-stored pollen of honey bees: Many lines of evidence are consistent with pollen preservation, not nutrient conversion.
Molecular Ecology
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Charlotte A. D. Meador*, Lucy A. Snyder*, Melissa R. Schwan*, Patrick Maes, Beryl Jones, Alexander Walton, Kirk E. Anderson. 2016.
Transcriptional, translational, and physiological signatures of undernourished honey bees (
Apis mellifera
) suggest a role for hormonal factors in hypopharyngeal gland degradation
.
Journal of Insect Physiology
.
Associated transcriptome data can be downloaded
here
.
Kirk E. Anderson**, Pedro A.P. Rodrigues**, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes, and Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2016. Ecological succession in the honey bee gut: Shift in
Lactobacillus
strain dominance during early adult development.
Microbial Ecology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy A. Snyder*, Charlotte A. D. Meador*, Rebecca Naldo*, Brendon M. Mott, Kirk E. Anderson. 2016.
Parasaccharibacter apium
, gen. nov., sp. nov., improves honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) resistance to
Nosema
.
Journal of Economic Entomology
.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Emily Watkins DeJong, Mona Chambers, Geoffrey Hidalgo. 2016.
Honey bee gut microbial communities are robust to the fungicide Prisitine consumed in pollen
.
Apidologie.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador, Trace Ayotte. 2018.
Honey bee (
Apis mellifera
) nurses do not consume pollens based on their nutritional quality
.
PLoS One
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris and Kirk E. Anderson. 2018.
Draft genome sequences of four
Parasaccharibacter apium
strains isolated from honey bees
.
genomeA
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris and Lucy Snyder. 2018.
Measuring hypopharyngeal gland acinus size in honey bee (
Apis mellifera
) workers
.
JoVE.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman
,
Stephanie L. Gage
,
Vanessa Corby-Harris
,
Mark Carroll, Mona Chambers
,
Henry Graham
,
Emily Watkins DeJong*, Geoffrey Hidalgo*
,
Samantha Calle*
,
Farida Azzouz-Olden
,
Charlotte Meador, Lucy Snyder, Nick Ziolkowski*. 2018.
Connecting the nutrient composition of seasonal pollens with changing nutritional needs of honey bee (
Apis mellifera
L.) colonies.
Journal of Insect Physiology
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris , Julia H. Bowsher , Morgan Carr-Markell, Mark J. Carroll , Mary Centrella, Steven C. Cook, Margaret Couvillon, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Adam Dolezal, Julia C. Jones, Christina L. Mogren , Clint R. V. Otto , Pierre Lau , Juliana Rangel , Roger Schürch, Ashley St. Clair. 2018.
Emerging Themes from the ESA Symposium Entitled “Pollinator Nutrition: Lessons from Bees at Individual to Landscape Levels”
.
Bee World
.
William G. Meikle, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Mark J. Carroll, Milagra Weiss, Lucy A. Snyder, Charlotte A.D. Meador, Eli Beren, Nicholas Brown. 2019.
Exposure to sublethal concentrations of methoxyfenozide disrupts honey bee colony activity and thermoregulation.
PLoS ONE
.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador. 2019.
Fat body lipolysis connects poor nutrition to hypopharyngeal gland degradation in
Apis mellifera
.
Journal of Insect Physiology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris
,
Megan E. Deeter
,
Lucy Snyder
,
Charlotte Meador
,
Ashley C. Welchert
,
Amelia Hoffman
, Bethany T. Obernesser. 2020.
Octopamine mobilizes lipids from honey bee (
Apis mellifera
) hypopharyngeal glands
.
Journal of Experimental Biology
.
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