Comparative genomic analysis of the Triboliumimmune system (2007)
Zou, Zhen, Evans, Jay D, Lu, Zhiqiang, Zhao, Picheng, Williams, Michael, Sumathipala, Niranji, ...
Abstract Background Tribolium castaneum is a species of Coleoptera, the largest and most diverse order of all eukaryotes. Components of the innate immune system are hardly known in this insect, which...
Computational and transcriptional evidence for microRNAs in the honey bee genome (2007)
Weaver, Daniel B, Anzola, Juan M, Evans, Jay D, Reid, Jeffrey G, Reese, Justin T, Childs, Kevin L, ...
Abstract Background Non-coding microRNAs (miRNAs) are key regulators of gene expression in eukaryotes. Insect miRNAs help regulate the levels of proteins involved with development, metabolism, and...
Antagonistic interactions between honey bee bacterial symbionts and implications for disease (2006)
Evans, Jay D, Armstrong, Tamieka-Nicole
Abstract Background Honey bees, Apis mellifera , face many parasites and pathogens and consequently rely on a diverse set of individual and group-level defenses to prevent disease. One route by which...
COLONY-LEVEL IMPACTS OF IMMUNE RESPONSIVENESS IN HONEY BEES, APIS MELLIFERA (2005)
Jay D. Evans, Jeffery S. Pettis
Social insects have evolved both communal and individual traits that reduce the impacts of their numerous parasites and pathogens. Among the individual traits, innate-immune responses have the...
Conditional immune-gene suppression of honeybees parasitized by Varroa mites (2005)
Pamela G. Gregory, Jay D. Evans, Thomas Rinderer, Lilia De Guzman
Bacterial Probiotics Induce an Immune Response in the Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (2004)
To explore immune system activation in the honey bee, Apis mellifera L., larvae of four ages were exposed through feeding to spores of a natural pathogen, Paenibacillus larvae larvae, to cells of a...
Beenomes to Bombyx: future directions in applied insect genomics (2003)
Evans, Jay D, Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn
Abstract The recent sequencing of the Anopheles gambiae genome showcases the genetic breadth of insects and a trend towards sequencing organisms directly involved with human welfare. We describe...
Expression profiles during honeybee caste determination (2000)
Evans, Jay D, Wheeler, Diana E
Abstract Background Depending on their larval environment, female honeybees develop into either queens or workers. As in other polyphenisms, this developmental switch depends not on genomic...
Jay D. Evans, Jeffery S. Pettis, Hachiro Shimanuki
The hive beetle Aethina tumida Murray is a new pest of honey bee colonies in North America. Specimens of A. tumida were collected throughout its current range in the southeastern United States, and...
Differential gene expression between developing queens and workers in the honey bee, Apis mellifera
Evans, Jay D., Wheeler, Diana E.
Many insects show polyphenisms, or alternative morphologies, which are based on differential gene expression rather than genetic polymorphism. Queens and workers are alternative forms of the adult...
Beenomes to Bombyx: future directions in applied insect genomics
Evans, Jay D, Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn
Various traits in insect species make them important candidates for genomics projects, and several recent workshops have aimed to unite researchers working with insect species to efficiently address...
Conditional immune-gene suppression of honeybees parasitized by Varroa mites
Gregory, Pamela G., Evans, Jay D., Rinderer, Thomas, De Guzman, Lilia
The ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, is the most destructive parasite of managed honeybee colonies worldwide. Since V. destructor transfers pathogens to honeybees, it may be adaptive for bees...
Differential gene expression between developing queens and workers in the honey bee, Apis mellifera
Evans, Jay D., Wheeler, Diana E.
Many insects show polyphenisms, or alternative morphologies, which are based on differential gene expression rather than genetic polymorphism. Queens and workers are alternative forms of the adult...
Beenomes to Bombyx: future directions in applied insect genomics
Evans, Jay D, Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn
Various traits in insect species make them important candidates for genomics projects, and several recent workshops have aimed to unite researchers working with insect species to efficiently address...
Conditional immune-gene suppression of honeybees parasitized by Varroa mites
Gregory, Pamela G., Evans, Jay D., Rinderer, Thomas, De Guzman, Lilia
The ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, is the most destructive parasite of managed honeybee colonies worldwide. Since V. destructor transfers pathogens to honeybees, it may be adaptive for bees...
Zou, Z, Lopez, Dawn L, Kanost, Michael R, Evans, Jay D, Jiang, Haobo
We have identified 44 serine protease (SP) and 13 serine protease homolog (SPH) genes in the genome of Apis mellifera. Most of these genes encode putative secreted proteins, but four SPs and three...
Comparative genomic analysis of the Tribolium immune system
Zou, Zhen, Evans, Jay D, Lu, Zhiqiang, Zhao, Picheng, Williams, Michael, Sumathipala, Niranji, ...
The annotation, and comparison with homologous genes in other species, of immunity-related genes in the Tribolium castaneum genome allowed the identification of around 300 candidate defense proteins,...
Computational and transcriptional evidence for microRNAs in the honey bee genome
Weaver, Daniel B, Anzola, Juan M, Evans, Jay D, Reid, Jeffrey G, Reese, Justin T, Childs, Kevin L, ...
A total of 68 non-redundant candidate honey bee miRNAs were identified computationally; several of them appear to have previously unrecognized orthologs in the Drosophila genome. Several miRNAs...