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Susan A. Weiner
Researcher at Roosevelt University
Publications - 10
Citations - 329
Susan A. Weiner is an academic researcher from Roosevelt University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Polistes & Cooperative breeding. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 10 publications receiving 278 citations. Previous affiliations of Susan A. Weiner include Tufts University & Iowa State University.
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Epigenetics in social insects: a new direction for understanding the evolution of castes.
Susan A. Weiner,Amy L. Toth +1 more
TL;DR: Research on honeybees, and, when available, other social insects, on DNA methylation and queen and worker caste differences are reviewed, and a conceptual framework for the effects of methylation on caste determination in honeybees is outlined that may help guide studies of epigenetic regulation in other polyphenic taxa.
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Different axes of environmental variation explain the presence vs. extent of cooperative nest founding associations in Polistes paper wasps
Michael J. Sheehan,Michael J. Sheehan,Michael J. Sheehan,Carlos A. Botero,Carlos A. Botero,Tory A. Hendry,Tory A. Hendry,Brian E. Sedio,Brian E. Sedio,Jennifer M. Jandt,Susan A. Weiner,Amy L. Toth,Elizabeth A. Tibbetts +12 more
TL;DR: Using a large data set of cooperative nesting in Polistes wasps it is demonstrated that different aspects of cooperative breeding are likely to be driven by different aspect of climate, and that intraspecific responses to climate variation are highly heterogeneous among species.
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A survey of DNA methylation across social insect species, life stages, and castes reveals abundant and caste-associated methylation in a primitively social wasp
Susan A. Weiner,David W. Galbraith,Dean C. Adams,Nicole Valenzuela,Fernando Barbosa Noll,Christina M. Grozinger,Amy L. Toth +6 more
TL;DR: The results suggest DNA methylation may play a role in the regulation of behavioral and physiological differences in primitively social species with more flexible caste differences, including Polistes dominula paper wasps.
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Context and Control: Behavioural Ecology Experiments in the Laboratory
TL;DR: This work considers the advantages and disadvantages of laboratory experiments and the unique information they can provide, including a comparison of three laboratory research contexts; neutral, natural and contrived.
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WASPnest: a worldwide assessment of social Polistine nesting behavior.
Sara E. Miller,Sarah E. Bluher,Emily Bell,Alessandro Cini,Rafael Carvalho da Silva,André Rodrigues de Souza,Kristine Gandia,Jennifer M. Jandt,Kevin J. Loope,Amanda Prato,Jonathan N. Pruitt,David T. Rankin,Erin E. Wilson Rankin,Robin J. Southon,Floria M. K. Uy,Susan A. Weiner,Colin M. Wright,Holly Downing,Raghavendra Gadagkar,M. Cristina Lorenzi,M. Cristina Lorenzi,Lidiya Rusina,Seirian Sumner,Elizabeth A. Tibbetts,Amy L. Toth,Michael J. Sheehan +25 more
TL;DR: A smaller population-level version of this data set found that the presence or absence of cooperative nesting in paper wasps was correlated with temperature stability and environmental harshness, but these variables did not predict the extent of cooperation within species.