Isobel Ronai

Research interests

Publications

• Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names

  Zootaxa · 2025 · 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1

• The repetitive genome of the Ixodes ricinus tick reveals transposable elements have driven genome evolution in ticks

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024 · 10.1101/2024.03.13.584159

• How molecular techniques are developed from natural systems

  Genetics · 2023 · 10.1093/genetics/iyad067

• Phylogeography of the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) throughout the USA identifies candidate loci for differences in vectorial capacity

  Molecular Ecology · 2023 · 10.1111/mec.16921

• A long non-coding RNA is a key factor in the evolution of insect eusociality

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022 · 10.1101/2022.05.10.491402

• The emergence of tick-borne diseases in domestic animals in Australia.

  CABI eBooks · 2021 · 10.1079/9781789249637.0061

• DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming in young honey bee workers

  Molecular Ecology · 2021 · 10.1111/mec.16098

• Reproductive plasticity and oogenesis in the queen honey bee (Apis mellifera)

  Journal of Insect Physiology · 2021 · 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2021.104347

• Vitellogenin expression in the ovaries of adult honeybee workers provides insights into the evolution of reproductive and social traits

  Insect Molecular Biology · 2021 · 10.1111/imb.12694

• “Microbiota, symbiosis and individuality summer school” meeting report

  Microbiome · 2020 · 10.1186/s40168-020-00898-7

• Irreversible sterility of workers and high-volume egg production by queens in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria

  Journal of Experimental Biology · 2020 · 10.1242/jeb.230599

• Aversion of the invasive Asian longhorned tick to the white‐footed mouse, the dominant reservoir of tick‐borne pathogens in the U.S.A.

  Medical and Veterinary Entomology · 2020 · 10.1111/mve.12441

• Queen pheromone modulates the expression of epigenetic modifier genes in the brain of honeybee workers

  Biology Letters · 2020 · 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0440

• The Case for Basic Biological Research

  Trends in Molecular Medicine · 2019 · 10.1016/j.molmed.2018.12.003

• Sex mosaics in the honeybee: how haplodiploidy makes possible the evolution of novel forms of reproduction in social Hymenoptera

  Biology Letters · 2018 · 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0670

• The dynamic association between ovariole loss and sterility in adult honeybee workers

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2017 · 10.1098/rspb.2016.2693

• Cytogenetic basis of thelytoky in Apis mellifera capensis

  Apidologie · 2017 · 10.1007/s13592-017-0505-7

• Queen pheromone regulates programmed cell death in the honey bee worker ovary

  Insect Molecular Biology · 2016 · 10.1111/imb.12250

• The Mechanistic, Genetic, and Evolutionary Basis of Worker Sterility in the Social Hymenoptera

  Advances in the study of behavior · 2016 · 10.1016/bs.asb.2016.03.002

• AnarchyIs a Molecular Signature of Worker Sterility in the Honey Bee

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2015 · 10.1093/molbev/msv202

• Regulation of oogenesis in honey bee workers via programed cell death

  Journal of Insect Physiology · 2015 · 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.06.014

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