lab members in bold
2023
Wanhu Yang, Jixiang Cui, Yuxin Chen, Chao Wang, Yuanzhi Yin, Wei Zhang, Shanlin Liu, Cheng Sun, Hu Li, Yuange Duan, Fan Song, Wanzhi Cai, Heather M Hines, Li Tian. Genetic modification of a Hox locus drives mimetic color pattern variation in a highly polymorphic bumble bee, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023, msad261, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad261
Feuerborn, C., G. Quinlan, R. Shippee, T.L. Strausser, T. Terranova, C.M. Grozinger, H.M. Hines. 2023. Variance in heat tolerance in bumble bees correlates with species geographic range and is associated with several environmental and biological factors. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10730. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10730
Guiguet, A., J. Tooker, A.R. Deans, G. Ning, I. Mikó, S. Schwéger, H.M. Hines. 2023. Comparative anatomy of venom glands suggests a role of maternal secretions in gall induction by cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(5): 3 https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixad022
Quinlan, G., C. Feuerborn, H. M. Hines, C. M. Grozinger. 2023. Beat the heat: Thermal respites and access to food increase bumble bee heat tolerance. J. of Experimental Biology 226(17): jeb245924. doi: 10.1242/jeb.245924
Orlova, M., M. Porter, H.M. Hines, E. Amsalem. 2023, Symptomatic infection with Vairimorpha bombi decreases diapause survival in wild bumble bee species (Bombus griseocollis). Animals, 13 (10):1656.
Gratton, E.M., D.J. McNeil, C.M. Grozinger, H.M. Hines. Local habitat type influences bumble bee pathogen loads and bee species distribution. Environmental Entomology, nvad027, https://doi.org/10.193/33/nvad027
Keagy, J., C. Drummond, K. Gilbert, C. Grozinger, J. Hamilton, H. Hines, J. Lasky, C. Logan, R. Sawers, T. Wagner. 2023. Landscape transcriptomics as a tool for addressing global change effects across diverse species. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13796
Guiguet, A., N.B. McCartney, K.J. Gilbert, J. F. Tooker, A.R. Deans, J. G. Ali, H.M. Hines. 2023. Extreme acidity in a cynipid gall: a potential new defensive strategy against natural enemies. Biology Letters 19: 20220513
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2022
Hines, H.M., S.K. Kilpatrick, I. Mikó, D. Snellings, M. López-Uribe, L. Tian. 2022. The diversity, evolution, and development of setal morphologies in bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus spp). PeerJ, 10, e14555.
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2021
Wham, B.D., S.R. Rahman, M. Martinez-Correa, H.M. Hines. 2021. Mito-nuclear discordance at a mimicry transition zone in bumble bee Bombus melanopygus. Ecology and Evolution, 00, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8412
Burke, G.R., H.M. Hines, B.J. Sharanowski. 2021. Endogenization from diverse viral ancestors is common and widespread in parasitoid wasps. Genome Biology and Evolution 13(7):evab105. PREPRINT: bioRxiv, doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.17/148684 [2020]
Ghisbain, G., M. Gerard, T.J. Wood, H.M. Hines, and D. Michez. 2021. Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene. Biological Reviews. doi: 10.111/brv.12777
Rahman, S.R., J. Cnaani, L.N. Kinch, N.V. Grishin, H.M. Hines. A combined RAD-Seq and WGS approach reveals the genomic basis of yellow color variation in bumble bee Bombus terrestris. Nature Scientific Reports 11:7996 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87194-y; PREPRINT, bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.12.248740
Lhomme, P., S.D. Williams, G. Ghisbain, B. Martinet, M. Gérard, H.M. Hines. 2021. Diversification Pattern of the Widespread Holarctic Cuckoo Bumble Bee, Bombus flavidus (Hymenoptera: Apidae): The East Side Story, Insect Systematics and Diversity, Volume 5, Issue 2, March 2021, 5, https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixab007
Dash S, Rahman SR, Hines HM, Feng W. 2021. iBLAST: Incremental BLAST of new sequences via automated e-value correction. PLOS ONE 16(4): e0249410. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249410
Rahman, S. R., T. Terranova, L. Tian, & H.M. Hines. 2021. Developmental transcriptomics reveals a gene network driving mimetic color variation in a bumble bee. Genome Biology and Evolution. evab080, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab080
Sharanowski, B.J., R. Ridenbaugh, P.K. Piekarski, G.R. Broad, G.R. Burke, A.R. Deans, A.R. Lemmon, E.R. Lemmon, G. Stewart, J.B. Whitfield, and H.M. Hines. 2021. Phylogenomics of Icheumonoidea (Hymenoptera) and implications for evolution of parasitism and viral endogenization. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 156: 107023 [bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.17.157719%5D
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2020
McNeil, D.J., E. McCormick, A.C. Heimann, M. Kammerer, M.R. Douglas, S.C. Goslee, C.M. Grozinger, H.M. Hines. 2020. Bumble bees in landscapes with abundant floral resources have lower pathogen loads. Nature Scientific Reports 10,22306 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78119-2
Villalona, E., Ezray, B.D., Laveaga, E., Agrawal, A.A., Ali, J.G., and H.M. Hines. 2020. The role of toxic nectar secondary compounds in driving differential bumble bee preferences for milkweed flowers. Oecologia https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04701-0
Ghisbain, G., Lozier, J.D., Rahman, S.R., Ezray, B.D., Tian, L., Ulmer, J.M., Heraghty, S., Strange, J.P., Rasmont, P., and H.M. Hines. 2020. Substantial genetic divergence and lack of recent gene flow support cryptic speciation in a color polymorphic bumble bee (Bombus bifarius) species complex. Systematic Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12419
Vaudo, A. D., Tooker, J.F., Patch, H.M., Biddinger, D.J., Coccia, M., Crone, M.K., Fiely, M., Francis, J.S., Hines, H.M., Hodges, M., Jackson, S.W., Michez, D., Mu, J., Russo, L., Safari, M., Treanore, E.D., Vanderplanck, M., Yip, E., Leonard, A.S., and C.M. Grozinger. 2020. Pollen protein:lipid macronutrient ratios guide broad patterns of bee species floral preferences. Insects, 2020 (11):132.
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2019
Mikó, I., Rahman, S.R., Jones, A.C., Townley, M.A., Gominho, B., Paudel, S., Stupski, D., Hines, H.M., and R.J. Schilder. 2019. From Spinning Silk to Spreading Saliva: Mouthpart Remodeling in Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity, Special Collection: Current Techniques in Morphology, 3(6), November 2019, 2, https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixz007
Ezray, B.D., D.C. Wham, C. Hill, and H.M. Hines. 2019. Unsupervised machine learning reveals mimicry complexes in bumble bees occur along a perceptual continuum. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B series, 286: 20191501, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1501. PREPRINT: Ezray, B.D., Wham, D., Hill, C., and H.M. Hines. 2019. Mullerian mimicry in bumble bees is a transient continuum. PREPRINT, bioRxiv, 513275. https://doi.org/10.1101/513275
Hines, H.M., and S.R. Rahman. 2019. Evolutionary genetics in insect phenotypic radiations: the value of a comparative genomic approach. Current Opinion in Insect Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.08.013
Wham, D., Ezray, B.D., and H.M. Hines. 2019. Measuring perceptual distance of organismal color pattern using the features of deep neural networks. PREPRINT, bioRxiv, August 15, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/736306
Baker, A., J. Heraty, J. Mottern, J. Zhang, H. M. Hines, A. Lemmon, and E. Lemmon. 2019. Countercurrent dispersals of parasitoids and their ant hosts: the phylogenetics and biogeography of the Oraseminae (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae). Systematic Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12371
Tian, L., Rahman, S.R., Ezray, B.D., Franzini, L., Strange, J.P., Lhomme, P., and H.M. Hines. 2019. A homeotic shift late in development drive mimetic color variation in a bumble bee. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900365116
Mikó, I., Rahman, S.R., Anzaldo, S.S., van de Kamp, T., Parslow, B.A., Tatarnic, N.J., Wetherington, M.T., Anderson, J., Schilder, R.J., Ulmer, J.M., Deans, A.R., and H.M. Hines. 2019. Fat in the Leg: Function of the expanded hind heg in gasteruptiid wasps (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity, 3(1), 2.
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2018
Dash, S., Rahman, S., Hines, H.M., and W. Feng. 2018. Incremental BLAST: Incremental addition of new sequence databases through e-value correction. PREPRINT, bioRxiv, 476218. https://doi.org/10.1101/476218
Tian, L. and H.M. Hines 2018. Morphological characterization and staging of bumble bee pupae. PeerJ, 6, e6089.https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6089
Lhomme, P. and H.M. Hines 2018. Ecology and Evolution of Cuckoo Bumble Bees. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/say031
Lhomme, P. and H.M. Hines 2018. Reproductive dominance strategies of insect social parasites. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 44: 838-850. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-018-0971-z
Brasero, N., Martinet, B., Lecocq, T., Lhomme, P., Biella, P., Valterová, I., Urbanaova, K., Cornalba, M., Hines, H., and P. Rasmont. 2018. The cephalic labial gland secretions of two socially parasitic bumblebees Bombus hyperboreus (Alpinobombus) and Bombus inexspectatus (Thoracobombus) question their inquiline strategy. Insect Science. 25(1), 75-86.
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2017
Hines, H.M. 2017. Book Review: Darwin’s Man in Brazil: The Evolving Science of Fritz Mueller, by David A. West. American Entomologist. 63(1):60. https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmw085
Harpur, B.A., Dey, A., Albert, J. R., Patel, S., Hines, H.M., Hasselmann, M., Packer, L. Zayed, A. 2017. Queens and Workers Contribute Differently to Adaptive Evolution in Bumble Bees and Honey Bees. Genome Biology and Evolution, 9(9), 2395–2402. http://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx182
Hines, H.M., Witkowski, P., Wilson, J.S., Wakamatsu, K. 2017. Melanic variation underlies aposematic color variation in two hymenopteran mimicry systems. PLOS ONE 12(7): e0182135. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182135
Van Belleghem, S.M., Rastas, P., Papanicolaou, A., Martin, S.H., Arias, C.F., Supple, M.A., Hanly, J.J., Mallet, J., Lewis, J.J., Hines, H.M., Ruiz, M., Salazar, C., Linares, M., Moreira, G.R.P., Jiggins, C.D., Counterman, B.A., McMillan, W.O., and R. Papa. 2017. Complex modular architecture around a simple toolkit of wing pattern genes. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: p.0052.
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2016
Mikó I, Trietsch C, Sandall EL, Yoder MJ, Hines H, Deans AR. 2016. Malagasy Conostigmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea) and the secret of scutes. PeerJ 4:e2682
Nadeau, N.J., C. Pardo-Diaz, A. Whibley, M.A. Supple, S.V. Saenko, R.W.R. Wallbank, G.C. Wu, L. Maroja, L. Ferguson, J.J. Hanly, H. Hines, C. Salazar, R. M. Merrill, A. J. Dowling, R. H. ffrench-Constant, V. Llaurens, M. Joron, W. O. McMillan, C. Jiggins. 2016. The gene cortex controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths. Nature 543: 106-110.
Nixon, A.E., H. Hines. 2016. Bumblebee thermoregulation: Understanding the thermal properties of physical features of bumble bees. The Penn State McNair Journal. 21: 99-115.
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2015
Supple, M.A., R. Papa, H. M. Hines, W. O. McMillian and B. A. Counterman. 2015 Divergence with gene flow across a speciation continuum of Heliconius butterflies. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15:204
Deans, A.R., Lewis, S.E., Huala, E., <70 alphabetical authors including H.M.Hines>, and P. Mabee. 2015. Finding our way through phenotypes. PLoS Biology 13(1): e1002033 doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002033
Condamine, F. and H. Hines, 2015. Historical species losses in bumblebee evolution. Biology Letters, 11: 20141049.
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2013
Supple, M. A., H. M. Hines, K. K. Dasmahapatra, J. J. Lewis, D. M. Nielsen, C. Lavoie, D. A. Ray, C. Salazar, W. O. McMillan, and B. A. Counterman. 2013. Genomic architecture of adaptive color pattern divergence and convergence in Heliconius butterflies. Genome Research, PREPRINT, doi: 10.1101/gr.150615.112
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2012
Hines, H. M., P. Williams. 2012. Evolution of Müllerian mimicry in the highly color polymorphic bumble bee Bombus trifasciatus and its comimics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166:805-826.
Hines, H. M.*, R. Papa*, M. Ruiz, A. Papanicoloau, C. Wang, H. F. Nijhout, W. O. McMillan**, and R. Reed**. Transcriptome analysis reveals novel patterning and pigmentation genes underlying Heliconius butterfly wing pattern variation. BMC Genomics 13: 288. *, ** equal contributions
The Heliconius Genome Consortium. 2012. Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species. Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11041
Duennes, M. A., Lozier, J. D., Hines, H. M., and S. A. Cameron. 2012. Geographical patterns of genetic divergence in the widespread Mesoamerican bumble bee Bombus ephippiatus (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64 (1): 219-231.
Miko, I., Friedrich, F., Yoder, M. J., Hines, H. M., Deitz, L. L., Bertone, M. A., Seltman, K. C., Wallace, M. S., and A. R. Deans. 2012. On dorsal prothoracic appendages in treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) and the nature of morphological evidence. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30137. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030137
2011
Hines, H. M., Counterman, B. A., Papa, R., Albuquerque de Moura, P., Cardoso, M. Z., Linares, M., Mallet, J., Reed, R. D., Jiggins, C. D., Kronforst, M. R., and W. Owen McMillan. 2011. Wing patterning gene redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 108: 19666-19671.
Reed, R. D., Papa, R., Martin, A., Hines, H. M., Counterman B. A., Pardo-Diaz, C., Jiggins, C. D., Chamberlain, N. L., Kronforst M. R., Chen, R., Halder, G., Nijhout, H. F., and W. O. McMillan. 2011. optix drives the repeated convergent evolution of butterfly wing pattern mimicry. Science 333: 1137-1141.
2010
Hines, H. M. and S. A. Cameron. 2010. The phylogenetic position of the bumble bee inquiline Bombus inexspectatus and implications for the evolution of social parasitism. Insectes Sociaux 57: 379-383.
Counterman, B. A., Arajuo-Perez, F., Hines, H. M., Baxter, S. W., Morrison, C. M., Lindstrom, D. P., Papa, R., Ferguson, L., Joron, M., ffrench-Constant, R., Smith, C., Nielsen, D. M., Chen, R., Jiggins, C. D., Reed, R. D., Halder, G., Mallet, J., and W. O. McMillan. 2010. Genomic hotspots for adaptation: population genetics of Müllerian mimicry in Heliconius erato. PLoS Genetics 6 (2): e10000794.
2008
Williams, P. H., Cameron, S. A., Hines, H. M., Cederberg, B., and P. Rasmont. 2008. A simplified subgeneric classification of the bumblebees (genus Bombus). Apidologie 39: 46-74.
Hines, H. M. 2008. Historical biogeography, divergence times, and diversification patterns of bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus). Systematic Biology 57: 58-75.
2007
Cameron, S. A., Hines, H. M., and P. H. Williams. 2007. A comprehensive phylogeny of the bumble bees (Bombus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91: 161-188.
Hines, H. M., Cameron, S. A., and A. R. Deans. 2007a. Nest architecture and foraging behavior in Bombus pullatus (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with comparisons to other tropical bumble bees. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 80: 1-15.
Hines, H. M., Hunt, J. H., O’Connor, T. K., Gillespie, J. J., and S. A. Cameron. 2007b. Multigene phylogeny reveals eusociality evolved twice in vespid wasps. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104: 3295-3299.
2006
Hines, H. M., Cameron, S. A., and P. H. Williams. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of the bumble bee subgenus Pyrobombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus) with insights into gene utility for lower-level analysis. Invertebrate Systematics 20: 289-303.
2005
Rasmont, P., Terzo, M., Aytekin, A. M., Hines, H., Urbanova, K., Cahlikova, L., and I. Valterova. 2005. Cephalic secretions of the bumblebee subgenus Sibiricobombus Vogt suggest Bombus niveatus Kriechbaumer and Bombus vorticosus Gerstaecker are conspecific (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus). Apidologie 36: 571-584.
Hines, H. M., and S. D. Hendrix. 2005. Bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) diversity and abundance in tallgrass prairie patches: Effects of local and landscape floral resources. Environmental Entomology 34: 1477-1484.
2004
Nelson, D. R., Hines, H., and B. Stay. 2004. Methyl-branched hydrocarbons, major components of the waxy material coating the embryos of the viviparous cockroach Diploptera punctata. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B 138: 265-276.
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