MSVU Insect Physiology Lab

Updates from the insect phsiology lab at MSVU

Publications

2025

Awde, D.N., Vaněčková, K., Řeřicha, M., Žabová, B., Dobeš, P., and Knapp, M. (2025) Seasonal variation rather than ectoparasitic fungi infection affects hemolymph parameters, thermal stress tolerance, and movement performance of an invasive ladybird. Oecologia, 207 (181), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05822

2023

Awde, D.N., Řeřicha, M., and Knapp, M. (2023) Increased pupal temperature has reversible effects on thermal performance and irreversible effects on immune system and fecundity in adult ladybirds. Communications Biology, 6 (1), 838

Pérez-Gálvez, F.R., Zhou, S., Wilson, A.C., Cornwell, C.L., Awde, D.N., and Teets, N.M. (2023) Scoring thermal limits in small insects using open-source, computer-assisted motion detection. Journal of Experimental Biology 226 (22)

2022

Awde, D.N., Skandalis, A., and Richards, M.H. (2022) Foraging gene expression patterns in queens, workers, and males of a eusocial insect. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 100 (1), 1-9, doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2021-0124

2021

Corbin, L.A.-J., Awde, D.N., and Richards, M.H. (2021) Phenological and social characterization of three Lasioglossum (Dialictus) species inferred from long-term trapping collections. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 88, 17-38, doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.88.73220

2020

Awde, D.N., Skandalis, A., and Richards, M.H. (2020) Vitellogenin expression corresponds with reproductive status and caste in a primitively eusocial bee. Journal of Insect Physiology, 127, 103113, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2020.104113

Lecheta, M.C., Awde, D.N., O’leary, T., Unfried, L.N., Jacobs, N.A., Whitlock, M.H., Mccabe, E., Powers, B., Bora, K., Waters, J.S., Axen, H.J., Frietze, S., Lockwood, B.L., Teets, N.M., and Helms-Cahan, S. (2020) Integrating GWAS and transcriptomics to identify the molecular underpinnings of thermal stress responses in Drosophila melanogaster. Frontiers in Genetics 11, 658, doi:10.3389/fgene.2020.00658

Awde, D.N., Fowler, T.E., Pérez-Gálvez, F., Garcia, M.J., and Teets, N.M. (2020) High throughput assays of critical thermal limits in insects. Journal of Visualized Experiments 160, e61186, doi:10.3791/61186

2018

Awde, D.N. and Richards, M.H. (2018) Investigating queen influence on worker behaviour using comparisons of queenless and queenright workers. Insectes Sociaux 65 (3), 367-379, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-018-0619-6

2014

Camiletti, A.L., Awde, D.N., and Thompson, G.J. (2014) How flies respond to honeybee pheromone: the role of the foraging gene on the reproductive response to queen mandibular pheromone. Naturwissenschaften. 101, 25-31, doi: 10.1007/s00114-013-1125-3