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Amy L. Toth

Researcher at Iowa State University

Publications -  95
Citations -  6906

Amy L. Toth is an academic researcher from Iowa State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Honey bee & Polistes. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 88 publications receiving 5885 citations. Previous affiliations of Amy L. Toth include University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign & Pennsylvania State University.

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Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera

George M. Weinstock, +228 more
- 26 Oct 2006 - 
TL;DR: The genome sequence of the honeybee Apis mellifera is reported, suggesting a novel African origin for the species A. melliferA and insights into whether Africanized bees spread throughout the New World via hybridization or displacement.
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RNA Viruses in Hymenopteran Pollinators: Evidence of Inter-Taxa Virus Transmission via Pollen and Potential Impact on Non-Apis Hymenopteran Species

TL;DR: For the first time, molecular detection of picorna-like RNA viruses (deformed wing virus, sacbrood virus and black queen cell virus) in pollen pellets collected directly from forager bees are reported, indicating that pollen itself may harbor viruses.
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Genetic and genomic analyses of the division of labour in insect societies

TL;DR: Different forms of division of labour, in lineages in which eusociality has arisen independently, have evolved through changes in the regulation of highly conserved molecular pathways associated with several basic life-history traits, including nutrition, metabolism and reproduction.
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Evo-devo and the evolution of social behavior.

TL;DR: This work develops the idea by reviewing studies that suggest that molecular pathways controlling feeding behavior and reproduction in solitary insects are part of a 'genetic toolkit' underlying the evolution of a particularly complex form of social behavior, division of labor among workers in honeybee colonies.
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Wasp Gene Expression Supports an Evolutionary Link Between Maternal Behavior and Eusociality

TL;DR: Wasp brain gene expression in workers was more similar to that in foundresses, which show maternal care, than to thatIn queens and gynes, which do not, suggesting that the evolution of eusociality involved major nutritional and reproductive pathways.