Our Publications

*Indicates Undergraduate Author

Drennan, K., Cook, C.N., Belucci, J., Glawe, D. Mobile Indoor Controlled Apiary System. 2023. US11684045B2.

Patents

2024

J.B. Nguyen, Marshall C.W., C.N. Cook. 2024. The buzz within: the role of the gut microbiome in honeybee social behavior. Journal of Experimental Biology. 227 (3): jeb246400. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246400

2023

Bawden, T., Dolezal, A., Cook, C.N. Indoor Honey Bee Colony Management During Winter for Research and Teaching. Accepted: Journal of Insect Science.

Latshaw, J.S., R.E. Mazade, M. Petersen, J.A. Mustard, I. Sinakevitch, L. Wissler, X. Guo, C.N Cook, H. Lei, J. Gadau, B.H. Smith. 2023. Tyramine and its AmTYR1 receptor modulate attention in honey bees (Apis mellifera). eLife 12: e83348. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.02.506392.  

Grupstra, C. G. B., Lemoine, N. P., Cook, C.N., & Correa, A. M. S. 2022. Thank you for biting: dispersal of beneficial microbiota through antagonistic interactions. Trends in Microbiology. 30 (10): 930-939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2022.03.006

Lei, H., Haney, S., Jernigan, C., Guo, X.J., Cook, C.N., Bazhenov, M., and B.H. Smith. 2022. Novelty detection in early olfactory processing of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. PLOS One. 17 (3): e0265009. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265009

ElSayeh, W. A., Cook, C.N., & Wright, G. A. 2022. B-Vitamins influence the consumption of macronutrients in honey bees. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 152. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.804002

2022

2021

Cook, C. N., Freeman, A. R., Liao, J. C., & Mangiamele, L. A. 2021. The Philosophy of Outliers: Reintegrating Rare Events Into Biological Science. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61: 2191-2198. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab166

Sezen, E*., E. Dereszkiewicz*, A. Hozan*, M. Bennett, C. Ozturk, B.H. Smith, C.N. Cook. 2020. Heritable cognitive phenotypes influence appetitive learning but not extinction in honey bees. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 114 (5): 606-613. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saab023

Lemanski, N., Cook, C.N., Gadau, J., Ozturk, C., Smith, B.H., N. Pinter-Wollman. 2020. The effect of individual learning on collective foraging behavior in honey bees in differently structured landscapes. Animal Behaviour. 179: 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.033

Schmidlin K., Kraberger S, Cook C.N., DeNardo, DF, Fontenele, R.S., Van Doorslaer, K., Martin D.P., Buck C.B., Varsani, A. A novel lineage of polyomaviruses identified in bark scorpions. Virology. 563: 58-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2021.08.008

Bennett, M. Cook, C.N., Smith, B.H., H. Lei. 2020. Early olfactory, but not gustatory processing, is affected by the selection of heritable cognitive phenotypes in honey bee. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-020-01451-5

Cook, C.N., Lemanski, N., Mosqueiro, T., Gadau, J., Ozturk, C., Pinter-Wollman, N. B.H. Smith. 2020. Heritable Learning Phenotypes Drive Collective Cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (30) 17949-17956. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920554117

Smith, B.H. & C.N. Cook. 2020. Experimental Psychology Meets Behavioral Ecology: What Laboratory Studies of Learning Polymorphisms Mean for Learning Under Natural Conditions, and Vice Versa. Journal of Neurogenetics. 34: 178-183. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01677063.2020.1718674

2020

2019

Lemanski, N., Cook, C.N., Gadau, J., Ozturk, C., Smith, B.H., N. Pinter-Wollman. 2019. A multiscale review of behavioral variation in collective foraging behavior in honey bees. Insects. 10(11), 370; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10110370

Cook. C.N., Lawson, S. & Rehan, S. 2019. Biogenic amines shift during the solitary-to-subsocial transition in the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Apidologie. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-018-0624-9. Download the PDF here.

Kraberger, S. Cook, C.N., Schmidlin, K., Fontenele, R.S., *Bautista, J. Smith, B.H., & A. Varsani. 2019. Diverse single stranded DNA viruses associated with honey bees (Apis mellifera). Infection, Genetics, and Evolution. 71: 179-188. Download the PDF here

Tsvetkov, N., Cook, C.N., & A. Zayed. 2019. Effects of group size on learning and memory in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.193888.

2018

Cook, C.N., Mosqueiro, T., Gadau, J., Ozturk, C., Pinter-Wollman, N., & B.H. Smith. 2018. Individual differences in learning and biogenic amine levels influence the behavioural division between foraging honey bee scouts and recruits. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12911 8. Download PDF here.

*Kaspar, R., Cook, C.N., Breed, M.D. 2018. Experienced individuals influence the thermoregulatory fanning behaviour in honey bee colonies. Animal Behaviour. 142:69-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.06.004. Download the PDF here.

2017

Mosqueiro, T., Cook, C.N., Huerta, R., Gadau, J., Smith, B.H., & N. Pinter-Wollman. 2017. Task allocation and site fidelity jointly influence foraging regulation in honey bee colonies. Royal Society Open Science. 4 170344. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170344. Download the PDF here.

Cook, C.N., Brent, C., & Breed, M.D. 2017. Octopamine and Tyramine Regulate the Thermoregulatory Fanning Response in Honeybees. Journal of Experimental Biology. jeb149203. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.149203. Download the PDF here.

2016

Cook, C.N., *Kaspar, R., & Breed, M.D. 2016. Rapidly Changing Environment Modulates the Thermoregulatory Fanning Response in Honeybee Groups. Animal Behaviour. 115:237-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.03.014. Download the PDF here.

Cook, C.N., *Scheckel, K, *Durzi, S., and Breed, M.D. 2016. Larvae influence thermoregulatory fanning behavior in honeybees (Apis mellifera L.). Insectes Sociaux. 63:271-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-016-0463-5. Download the PDF here.

Before 2016

Breed, M.D., Cook, C.N., McCreery, H., and Rodriguez, M. 2014. Nestmate and kin recognition in honeybees. in “Social Recognition in Invertebrates”, L. Aquiloni and E. Tricarico, eds., Springer.

Cook, C.N. and Breed, M.D. 2013. Social context influences the initiation and threshold of thermoregulatory behaviour in honey bees. Animal Behaviour. 86: 323-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.021. Download the PDF here.

Breed, M.D., Cook, C.N. and Ochomogo, M. 2012. Cleptobiosis in Social Insects. Psyche. Article ID 484765. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/484765.