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  1. A revised phylogeny of macropathine cave crickets (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) uncovers a paraphyletic Australian fauna

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  2. Antennal asymmetry is not associated with social behaviour in Australian Hymenoptera

    Article • Austral Entomology, August 2018, Wiley

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  3. Massive Parallel Regression: A Précis of Genetic Mechanisms for Vision Loss in Diving Beetles

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, June 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  4. How blind are they? Phototactic responses in stygobiont diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from calcrete aquifers of Western Australia

    Article • Austral Entomology, February 2018, Wiley

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  5. Wolbachia infections in Australian ichneumonid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): evidence for adherence to the global equilibrium hypothesis

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  6. Casteless behaviour in social groups of the bee Exoneurella eremophila

    Article • Apidologie, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  7. Lack of ovarian skew in an allodapine bee and the evolution of casteless social behaviour

    Article • Ethology Ecology & Evolution, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  8. Consequences of evolutionary transitions in changing photic environments

    Article • Austral Entomology, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  9. Social evolution and casteless societies: needs for new terminology and a new evolutionary focus

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  10. Evidence for social nesting in Neotropical ceratinine bees

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  11. Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles: a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, January 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  12. Repeated origins of social parasitism in allodapine bees indicate that the weak form of Emery's rule is widespread, yet sympatric speciation remains highly problematic

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, March 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  13. Frequency of social nesting in the sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) does not vary across a rainfall gradient, despite disparity in brood production and body size

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  14. A single origin of large colony size in allodapine bees suggests a threshold event among 50 million years of evolutionary tinkering

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  15. Photic niche invasions: phylogenetic history of the dim-light foraging augochlorine bees (Halictidae)

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  16. The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Simon M Tierney, michael schwarz

  17. Nest descriptions of Megalopta aegis (Vachal) and M. guimaraesi Santos & Silveira (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, June 2010, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  18. Reproductive hierarchies in the African allodapine bee Allodapula dichroa (Apidae: Xylocopinae) and ancestral forms of sociality

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  19. Behavioural environments and niche construction: the evolution of dim-light foraging in bees

    Article • Biological Reviews, February 2009, Wiley

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  20. Hasinamelissa: a new genus of allodapine bee from Madagascar revealed by larval morphology and DNA sequence data

    Article • Systematic Entomology, October 2008, Wiley

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  21. Biology of a nocturnal bee,Megalopta atra(Hymenoptera: Halictidae; Augochlorini), from the Panamanian highlands

    Article • Journal of Natural History, July 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  22. Nesting Biology and Social Behavior of Xenochlora Bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) from Perú

    Article • Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, April 2008, Kansas Entomological Society

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  23. Phylogenetics of allodapine bees: a review of social evolution, parasitism and biogeography

    Article • Apidologie, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  24. Origins of social parasitism: The importance of divergence ages in phylogenetic studies

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, June 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  25. Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  26. Nesting biology of an African allodapine bee Braunsapis vitrea: female biased sex allocation in the absence of worker-like behavioural castes

    Article • Ethology Ecology & Evolution, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  27. Molecular Phylogenetics of the Exoneurine Allodapine Bees Reveal an Ancient and Puzzling Dispersal from Africa to Australia

    Article • Systematic Biology, February 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  28. Phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: historical biogeography and long‐range dispersal over water

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, October 2005, Wiley

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  29. Brood Provisioning and Colony Composition of a Malagasy Species of Halterapis: Implications for Social Evolution in the Allodapine Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae)

    Article • Annals of the Entomological Society of America, January 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  30. Molecular phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: A–T bias and heterogeneous substitution parameters

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, July 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  31. Sociality in the phylogenetically basal allodapine bee genus Macrogalea (Apidae: Xylocopinae): implications for social evolution in the tribe Allodapini

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, June 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  32. The biology of Brevineura froggatti and phylogenetic conservatism in Australian allodapine bees (Apidae, Allodapini)

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, February 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  33. Biology of a weakly social bee, Exoneura (Exoneurella) setosa (Hymenoptera : Apidae) and implications for social evolution in Australian allodapine bees

    Article • Australian Journal of Zoology, January 1998, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Simon M Tierney

  34. Social Behaviour in an Australian Allodapine Bee Exoneura (Brevineura) xanthoclypeata (Hymenoptera : Apidae)

    Article • Australian Journal of Zoology, January 1997, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Simon M Tierney