Giant cathedral termites, Australia
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Dr. Graham Thompson
Behavioural Genetics and Sociobiology
Publications
Camiletti A, Awde DN, Thompson GJ (submitted). How female flies respond to honey bee pheromone: The role of forager on reproductive response to queen mandibular pheromone. Journal of Comparative Physiology A.
Clarke M, Thompson GJ, Sinclair BJ (submitted). Cold tolerance of the Eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), in Ontario. Environmental Entomology.
Mizzau, TW, Garner S, Thompson GJ, and Morbey YE (submitted). A genetic test of sexual size dimorphism in pre-emergent Chinook salmon. Journal of Fish Biology.
Camiletti A, Percivall-Smith A, Thompson GJ. (in revision). Honey bee queen mandibular pheromone inhibits ovary development and fecundity in a fruit fly. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.
Scaduto D, Garner S, Leach E, Thompson GJ 2012. Genetic evidence for multiple invasions of the Eastern subterranean termite into Canada. Environmental Entomology. 41: 1680-1686.
Backx A, Guzman-Novoa E, Thompson GJ 2012. Factors affecting ovary activation in honeybee workers: a meta-analysis. Insectes Sociaux - International Journal for the Study of Social Arthropods 59: 381-388.
Gao Q, Tancredi SE, Thompson GJ 2012. Identification of mycosis-related genes in the Eastern subterranean termite by suppression subtractive hybridization. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 80: 63-76
Gao Q, Bidochka, M, Thompson GJ. 2012. Effect of group size and caste ratio on individual survivorship and social immunity in a subterranean termite. Acta Ethologica: 15: 55-63
Syaukani S and Thompson GJ. 2011. Taxonomic notes on Nasutitermes and Bulbitermes (Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae) from Southeast Asia based on morphological and molecular characters. ZooKeys 148: 135-160
Thompson GJ. (2011) Book Review. Bignell DE, Roisin Y, Lo N. (Eds.) Biology of Termites: a Modern Synthesis. Myrmecological News 16: 60
Syaukani S, Thompson GJ, Yamane S. 2011. Hospitalitermes krishnai, a new nasute termite (Nasutitermitinae, Termitidae, Isoptera) from southern Sumatra, Indonesia. ZooKeys 148: 161-169
Nebel S, Thompson GJ. 2011. Evolution of sexual bill-size dimorphism in shorebirds: a morphometric test of the resource partitioning hypothesis. Evolutionary Ecology Research 13: 35-44
Raffoul M, Hecnar SJ, Prezioso S, Hecnar D, Thompson GJ. 2011. Trap response and genetic structure of Eastern subterranean termites (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae) in Point Pelee National Park, Ontario, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist 143: 263-271.
Abbot P,et al. (Thompson GJ co-author). 2011. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471: E1-E4.
Thompson GJ . 2010. Professor Rossiter H. Crozier 1943-2009 Obituary. Evolution 64: 869-870
Thompson GJ. (2009) Book Review. Gadau, J. and Fewell, J. (Eds.) 2009: Organization of insect societies: from genome to sociocomplexity. Myrmecological News 12, 182
Thompson GJ , Kucharski R, Maleszka R, Oldroyd BP. (2008) Genome-wide analysis of genes related to ovary activation in worker honey bees. Insect Molecular Biology (2008) 17, 657–665
Oxley PP, Thompson GJ, Oldroyd BP. (2008) Four quantitative trait loci that influence worker sterility in the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Genetics 179: 1337–1343 [Issue highlight].
Thompson GJ , Yockey H, Lim J, Oldroyd BP. 2007 Experimental manipulation of ovary activation and gene expression in honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens and workers: testing hypotheses of reproductive regulation. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A – Ecological Genetics & Physiology 307: 600-610.
Thompson GJ , Lenz M, Crozier RH, Crespi BJ. 2007. Molecular-genetic analyses of dispersal and breeding behaviour in the Australian termite Coptotermes lacteus: evidence for non-random mating in a swarm-dispersal mating system. Australian Journal of Zoology 55: 219-227 [Issue highlight].
Lo N, Engel MS, Cameron S, Nalepa CA, Tokuda G, Grimaldi D, Kitade O, Krishna K, Klass K, Maekawa K, Miura T, Thompson GJ. 2007. Save Isoptera: a comment on Inward et al. Biology Letters 3: 562-563.
Oldroyd BP, Thompson GJ. 2007. Behavioural genetics of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Advances in Insect Physiology. 33: 1- 49 [Review].
Thompson GJ . 2006 Kin selection in disguise? Insectes Sociaux 53: 496 -497.
Evans JD, Aronstein K, Chen YP, Hetru C, Imler J-L, Jiang H, Kanost, M, Thompson GJ, Zou Z, Hultmark D. 2006. Immune pathways and defense mechanisms in honey bees, Apis mellifera. Insect Molecular Biology 15: 645-656.
Thompson GJ , Kucharski R, Maleszka R, Oldroyd BP. 2006 Towards a molecular definition of worker sterility: differential gene expression and reproductive plasticity in honey bees. Insect Molecular Biology15: 637-644.
Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium. 2006. Insights into social insects from the genome of the honey bee Apis mellifera. Nature. 443: 931-949 [Cover story].
Oldroyd BP, Reddy MS, Chapman NC, Thompson GJ, Beekman M.2006. Evidence for reproductive isolation between two ecotypes of cavity nesting honey bees (Apis) in south India. Insectes Sociaux 53: 428 – 434.
Koywiwattrakul P, Thompson GJ, Sitthipraneed S, Oldroyd BP, Maleszka R. 2005. Effects of carbon dioxide narcosis on ovary activation and gene expression in worker honey bees. Journal of Insect Science 5:36, available online: insectscience.org/5.36
Nebel S, Thompson GJ. 2005. Foraging behaviour of Western Sandpipers changes with sediment temperature: implications for their hemispheric distribution. Ecological Research 20:503-507.
Thompson GJ , Oldroyd BP. 2004. Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the origin of eusociality in corbiculate bees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33:452-456.
Nebel S, Cloutier A, Thompson GJ. 2004. Molecular sexing of prey-remains permits a test of sex-biased predation in a wintering population of Western Sandpipers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B 271:S321-S323.
Thompson GJ , Kitade O, Lo N, Crozier RH. 2004. On the origin of termite workers: Weighing up the phylogenetic evidence. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17:217-220 and 17:720.
Thompson GJ , Crozier YC, Crozier RH. 2003. Isolation and characterisation of a termite transferrin gene up-regulated on infection. Insect Molecular Biology 12:1-7.
Thompson GJ , Kitade O, Lo N, Crozier RH. 2000. Phylogenetic evidence for a single, ancestral origin of a 'true' worker caste in termites. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13:869-881 [Review].
Thompson GJ , Miller LR, Lenz M, Crozier RH. 2000. Phylogenetic analysis and trait evolution in Australian lineages of drywood termites (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17:419-429.
Thompson GJ , Lenz M, Crozier RH. 2000. Microsatellites in the subterranean, mound-building termite Coptotermes lacteus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Molecular Ecology 9:1932-1934.
Thompson GJ , Hebert PDN. 1998. Probing termite social systems through allozyme and mtDNA analysis: a case study of Nasutitermes nigriceps and N. costalis (Isoptera, Termitidae). Insectes Sociaux 45:289-299.
Thompson GJ , Hebert PDN. 1998. Population genetic structure of the Neotropical termite Nasutitermes nigriceps (Isoptera, Termitidae). Heredity 80:48-55.
