Dr Simon M Tierney
Current affiliation: University of Adelaide
Subject: Life Sciences
Primary location: Australia
The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting
Published in:Biology Letters
Publication date:2010-10-13
Photic niche invasions: phylogenetic history of the dim-light foraging augochlorine bees (Halictidae)
Published in:Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Publication date:2011-07-27
Social Behaviour in an Australian Allodapine Bee Exoneura (Brevineura) xanthoclypeata (Hymenoptera : Apidae)
Published in:Australian Journal of Zoology
Publication date:1997-01-01
Biology of a weakly social bee, Exoneura (Exoneurella) setosa (Hymenoptera : Apidae) and implications for social evolution in Australian allodapine...
Published in:Australian Journal of Zoology
Publication date:1998-01-01
The biology of Brevineura froggatti and phylogenetic conservatism in Australian allodapine bees (Apidae, Allodapini)
Published in:Insectes Sociaux
Publication date:2000-02-01
Sociality in the phylogenetically basal allodapine bee genus Macrogalea (Apidae: Xylocopinae): implications for social evolution in the tribe Allod...
Published in:Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Publication date:2002-06-01
Molecular Phylogenetics of the Exoneurine Allodapine Bees Reveal an Ancient and Puzzling Dispersal from Africa to Australia
Published in:Systematic Biology
Publication date:2006-02-01
Behavioural environments and niche construction: the evolution of dim-light foraging in bees
Published in:Biological Reviews
Publication date:2009-02-01
Hasinamelissa: a new genus of allodapine bee from Madagascar revealed by larval morphology and DNA sequence data
Published in:Systematic Entomology
Publication date:2008-10-01
Molecular phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: A–T bias and heterogeneous substitution parameters
Published in:Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Publication date:2004-07-01
Brood Provisioning and Colony Composition of a Malagasy Species of Halterapis: Implications for Social Evolution in the Allodapine Bees (Hymenopter...
Published in:Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Publication date:2005-01-01
Phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: historical biogeography and long-range dispersal over water
Published in:Journal of Biogeography
Publication date:2005-12-01
Nesting biology of an African allodapine bee Braunsapis vitrea: female biased sex allocation in the absence of worker-like behavioural castes
Published in:Ethology Ecology & Evolution
Publication date:2006-07-01
Origins of social parasitism: The importance of divergence ages in phylogenetic studies
Published in:Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Publication date:2007-06-01
Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales
Published in:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Publication date:2007-01-01
Phylogenetics of allodapine bees: a review of social evolution, parasitism and biogeography
Published in:Apidologie
Publication date:2008-01-01
Nesting Biology and Social Behavior of Xenochlora Bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) from Perú
Published in:Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society
Publication date:2008-04-01
Biology of a nocturnal bee,Megalopta atra(Hymenoptera: Halictidae; Augochlorini), from the Panamanian highlands
Published in:Journal of Natural History
Publication date:2008-07-01
Reproductive hierarchies in the African allodapine bee Allodapula dichroa (Apidae: Xylocopinae) and ancestral forms of sociality
Published in:Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Publication date:2009-06-23REPRODUCTIVE HIERARCHIES IN AN ALLODAPINE BEE
Nest descriptions of Megalopta aegis (Vachal) and M. guimaraesi Santos & Silveira (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado
Published in:Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
Publication date:2010-06-01
A single origin of large colony size in allodapine bees suggests a threshold event among 50 million years of evolutionary tinkering
Published in:Insectes Sociaux
Publication date:2011-11-05
Frequency of social nesting in the sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) does not vary across a rainfall gradient, despite disparity in brood pr...
Published in:Insectes Sociaux
Publication date:2013-01-10
Repeated origins of social parasitism in allodapine bees indicate that the weak form of Emery's rule is widespread, yet sympatric speciation remain...
Published in:Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Publication date:2013-03-26Origins of Social Parasitism in Allodapine Bees
Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles: a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches
Published in:Royal Society Open Science
Publication date:2015-01-28
Evidence for social nesting in Neotropical ceratinine bees
Published in:Insectes Sociaux
Publication date:2015-07-25
Social evolution and casteless societies: needs for new terminology and a new evolutionary focus
Published in:Insectes Sociaux
Publication date:2015-10-09
Consequences of evolutionary transitions in changing photic environments
Published in:Austral Entomology
Publication date:2017-01-06Transitions in photic environments
Lack of ovarian skew in an allodapine bee and the evolution of casteless social behaviour
Published in:Ethology Ecology & Evolution
Publication date:2017-06-05