Mark J F Brown

Search results

• 2024

  Distribution of infectious and parasitic agents among three sentinel bee species across European agricultural landscapes

  Babin, A., Schurr, F., Delannoy, S., Fach, P., Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet, M., Bougeard, S., de Miranda, J. R., Rundlöf, M., Wintermantel, D., Albrecht, M., Attridge, E., Bottero, I., Cini, E., Costa, C., De la Rúa, P., Di Prisco, G., Dominik, C., Dzul, D., Hodge, S. & Klein, A. M. & 18 others, Knapp, J., Knauer, A. C., Mänd, M., Martínez-López, V., Medrzycki, P., Pereira-Peixoto, M. H., Potts, S. G., Raimets, R., Schweiger, O., Senapathi, D., Serrano, J., Stout, J. C., Tamburini, G., Brown, M. J. F., Laurent, M., Rivière, M. P., Chauzat, M. P. & Dubois, E., 12 Feb 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 20 p., 3524.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Investigating epidemiological questions using Crithidia bombi and Bombus terrestris as a model system

  Wolmuth-Gordon, H. & Brown, M. J. F., 2024, (Unpublished)

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

  File
  120 Downloads (Pure)

• Newly emerged bumblebees are highly susceptible to gut parasite infection

  Wolmuth-Gordon, H., Nakabayashi, K. & Brown, M. J. F., Feb 2024, In: Insectes Sociaux. 71, p. 85–96

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  17 Downloads (Pure)

• No impact of cyantraniliprole on the hibernation success of bumble bees (Bombus terrestris audax) in a soil-mediated laboratory exposure study

  Linguadoca, A., Morrison, M. A., Menaballi, L., Šima, P. & Brown, M. J. F., Oct 2024, In: Ecology and Evolution. 14, 10, 8 p., e70328.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Pesticide use negatively affects bumble bees across European landscapes

  Nicholson, C. C., Knapp, J., Kiljanek, T., Albrecht, M., Chauzat, M. P., Costa, C., De la Rúa, P., Klein, A. M., Mänd, M., Potts, S. G., Schweiger, O., Bottero, I., Cini, E., de Miranda, J. R., Di Prisco, G., Dominik, C., Hodge, S., Kaunath, V., Knauer, A. & Laurent, M. & 10 others, Martínez-López, V., Medrzycki, P., Pereira-Peixoto, M. H., Raimets, R., Schwarz, J. M., Senapathi, D., Tamburini, G., Brown, M. J. F., Stout, J. C. & Rundlöf, M., 11 Apr 2024, In: Nature. 628, 8007, p. 355-358 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  17 Downloads (Pure)

• Revealing the genome of the microsporidian Vairimorpha bombi, a potential driver of bumble bee declines in North America

  Webster, V. L., Hemmings, S., Pérez, M., Fisher, M. C., Brown, M. J. F. & Farrer, R. A., Apr 2024, In: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 14, 4, 8 p., jkae029.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Salinity limits mosquitofish invasiveness by altering female activity during mate choice

  Pirroni, S., Leggieri, F., Cuccuru, J., Domenici, P., Brown, M. J. F., Marras, S. & Riesch, R., 25 Sept 2024, In: Frontiers in Fish Science. 2, 16 p., 1455775.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2023

  Methods matter: the influence of method on infection estimates of the bumblebee parasite Crithidia bombi

  Wolmuth-Gordon, H., Sharmin, A. & Brown, M. J. F., 20 Oct 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Parasitology. p. 1-22 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Rapid evolution, rearrangements and whole mitogenome duplication in the Australian stingless bees Tetragonula (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A steppingstone towards understanding mitochondrial function and evolution

  Francoso, E., Rizzo Zuntini, A., Cseri Ricardo, P., Karla Ferreira Santos, P., de Souza Araujo, N., Paulo Naldi Silva, J., Tresoldi Gonçalves, L., Brito, R., Gloag, R., Taylor, B. A., Harpur, B., Oldroyd, B. P., Brown, M. J. F. & Cristina Arias, M., 24 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 124568.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• The complete mitochondrial genome of Trigonisca nataliae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) assemblage reveals heteroplasmy in the control region

  Francoso, E., Rizzo Zuntini, A., Cseri Ricardo, P., de Souza Araujo, N., Paulo Naldi Silva, J., Brown, M. J. F. & Cristina Arias, M., 5 Jul 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Gene. 147621.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• The tragedy of the common? A comparative population genomic study of two bumblebee species

  Huml, J., Ellis, J. S., Rustage, S., Brown, M. J. F., Billington, R. & Knight, M. E., 28 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Insect Conservation and Diversity.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
  2 Downloads (Pure)

• Transmission of a bumblebee parasite is robust despite exposure to extreme temperatures

  Wolmuth-Gordon, H. & Brown, M. J. F., Jul 2023, In: Ecology and Evolution. 13, 7, e10379.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2022

  A combined LD50 for agrochemicals and pathogens in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris [Hymenoptera: Apidae])

  Siviter, H., Matthews, A. & Brown, M. J. F., Apr 2022, In: Environmental Entomology. 51, 2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  50 Downloads (Pure)

• Complex networks of parasites and pollinators: moving towards a healthy balance

  Brown, M. J. F., 20 Jun 2022, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 377, 1853, 20210161.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  121 Downloads (Pure)

• Detection rates of aphid DNA in the guts of larval hoverflies and potential links to the provision of floral resources

  Hodgkiss, D., Brown, M. J. F., Fountain, M. T. & Clare, E. L., Aug 2022, In: Bulletin of Entomological Research. 112, 4, p. 451 - 457

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  26 Downloads (Pure)

• Do pesticide and pathogen interactions drive wild bee declines?

  Straub, L., Strobl, V., Yanez, O., Albrecht, M., Brown, M. J. F. & Neumann, P., Aug 2022, In: International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 18, p. 232-243

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  112 Downloads (Pure)

• Host and gut microbiome modulate the antiparasitic activity of nectar metabolites in a bumblebee pollinator

  Koch, H., Welcome, V., Kendal-Smith, A., Thursfield, L., Farrell, I. W., Langat, M. K., Brown, M. J. F. & Stevenson, P. C., 2 May 2022, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  55 Downloads (Pure)

• Increasing flower species richness in agricultural landscapes alters insect pollinator networks: Implications for bee health and competition

  Doublet, V., Doyle, T., Refoy, I., Hedges, S., Carvell, C., Brown, M. J. F. & Wilfert, L., Oct 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution. 12, 10, e9442.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  105 Downloads (Pure)

• Intra-specific variation in sensitivity of Bombus terrestris and Osmia bicornis to three pesticides

  Linguadoca, A., Jürison, M., Hellström, S., Straw, E., Sima, P., Karise, R., Costa, C., Serra, G., Colombo, R., Paxton, R. J., Mänd, M. & Brown, M. J. F., 15 Oct 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 17311.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  51 Downloads (Pure)

• Natural processes influencing pollinator health

  Stevenson, P., Koch, H., Nicolson, S. & Brown, M. J. F., 20 Jun 2022, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 377, 1853, 20210162.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  61 Downloads (Pure)

• No effect of dual exposure to sulfoxaflor and a trypanosome parasite on bumblebee olfactory learning

  Vaughan, O., Straw, E., Linguadoca, A. & Brown, M. J. F., 21 May 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 8611 (2022).

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  44 Downloads (Pure)

• Parasite resistance and immunity across female castes in a social insect

  Ruiz-Gonzalez, M. X., Kelly, M., Moret, Y. & Brown, M. J. F., 5 Apr 2022, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 76, 56 (2022).

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover

  Ivers, N. A., Jordan, Z., Cohen, H., Tripodi, A., Brown, M. J. F., Liere, H., Lin, B. B., Philpott, S. & Jha, S., Aug 2022, In: Urban Ecosystems. 25, p. 1169–1179

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  24 Downloads (Pure)

• "‘Inert’ Ingredients Are Understudied, Potentially Dangerous to Bees and Deserve More Research Attention

  Straw, E., Thompson, L., Leadbeater, E. & Brown, M. J. F., 9 Mar 2022, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological sciences. 289, 1970

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  77 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Agri-environment scheme nectar chemistry can suppress the social epidemiology of parasites in an important pollinator

  Folly, A., Koch, H., Farrell, I. W., Stevenson, P. C. & Brown, M. J. F., 26 May 2021, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological sciences. 288, 1951

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  106 Downloads (Pure)

• Agrochemicals interact synergistically to increase bee mortality

  Siviter, H., Bailes, E. J., Martin, C. D., Oliver, T. R., Koricheva, J., Leadbeater, E. & Brown, M. J. F., 4 Aug 2021, In: Nature.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  127 Downloads (Pure)

• Bucking the trend of pollinator decline: the population genetics of a range expanding bumblebee

  Huml, J., Ellis, J., Lloyd, K., Benefer, C., Kiernan, M., Brown, M. J. F. & Knight, M., 19 Mar 2021, In: Evolutionary Ecology. 35, p. 413-442 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  47 Downloads (Pure)

• Co-formulant in a commercial fungicide product causes lethal and sub-lethal effects in bumble bees

  Straw, E. & Brown, M. J. F., 5 Nov 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 21653 (2021).

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  63 Downloads (Pure)

• Holistic environmental risk assessment for bees

  Topping, C. J., Brown, M. J. F., Chetcuti, J., de Miranda, J. R., Nazzi, F., Neumann, P., Paxton, R. J., Rundlöf, M. & Stout, J. C., 26 Feb 2021, In: Science. 371, 6532, p. 897 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  File
  25 Downloads (Pure)

• Improving pesticide-use data for the EU

  Mesnage, R., Straw, E., Antoniou, M., Benbrook, C., Brown, M. J. F., Chauzat, M.-P., Finger, R., Goulson, D., Leadbeater, E., López-Ballesteros, A., Niklas Möhring, N., Neumann, P., Stanley, D., Stout, J., Thompson, L., Topping, C., White, B., Zaller, J. & Zioga, E., 14 Oct 2021, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5, 1560.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  119 Downloads (Pure)

• No evidence of effects or interaction between the widely used herbicide, glyphosate, and a common parasite in bumble bees

  Straw, E. A. & Brown, M. J. F., 17 Nov 2021, In: PeerJ. 9, e12486.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  53 Downloads (Pure)

• Roundup causes high levels of mortality following contact exposure

  Straw, E. A., Carpentier, E. N. & Brown, M. J. F., 6 Apr 2021, In: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
  1 Downloads (Pure)

• Social isolation and group size are associated with divergent gene expression in the brain of ant queens

  Manfredini, F., Martinez-Ruiz, C., Wurm, Y., Shoemaker, D. & Brown, M. J. F., 7 Jun 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Genes, Brain and Behavior. e12758.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  27 Downloads (Pure)

• Sulfoxaflor and nutritional deficiency synergistically reduce survival and fecundity in bumblebees

  Linguadoca, A., Rizzi, C., Villa, S. & Brown, M. J. F., 15 Nov 2021, In: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 795, 148680.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  55 Downloads (Pure)

• The potential for parasite spill-back from commercial bumblebee colonies: a neglected threat to wild bees?

  Martin, C., Fountain, M. T. & Brown, M. J. F., 22 May 2021, In: Journal of Insect Conservation.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2020

  Age-related pharmacodynamics in a bumblebee-microsporidian system mirror similar patterns in vertebrates

  Folly, A., Stevenson, P. C. & Brown, M. J. F., 27 Feb 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Experimental Biology. p. 1-21 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  28 Downloads (Pure)

• Exposure to nectar-realistic sugar concentrations negatively impacts the ability of the trypanosome parasite (Crithidia bombi) to infect its bumblebee host

  Folly, A. J., Barton-Navarro, M. & Brown, M. J. F., Dec 2020, In: ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY. 45, p. 1495-1498 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
  7 Downloads (Pure)

• Host density drives viral, but not trypanosome, transmission in a key pollinator

  Bailes, E. J., Bagi, J., Coltman, J., Fountain, M. T., Wilfert, L. & Brown, M. J. F., 8 Jan 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences. 287, 1918, p. 1-9 9 p., 20191969.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
  7 Downloads (Pure)

• Individual and combined impacts of sulfoxaflor and Nosema bombi on bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) larval growth

  Siviter, H., Folly, A., Brown, M. J. F. & Leadbeater, E., 5 Aug 2020, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences. 287, 1932, 8 p., 20200935.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  63 Downloads (Pure)

• Nectar preferences in male bumblebees

  Brown, M. J. F., 7 Feb 2020, In: Insectes Sociaux. p. 1-8 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• OneHealth implications of infectious diseases of wild and managed bees

  Wilfert, L., Brown, M. J. F. & Doublet, V., 27 Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 107506.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Rapid size change associated with intra-island evolutionary radiation in extinct Caribbean “island-shrews”

  Woods, R., Turvey, S. T., Brace, S., McCabe, C., Dalén, L., Rayfield, E. J., Brown, M. J. F. & Barnes, I., 18 Aug 2020, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20, 12 p., 106.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  40 Downloads (Pure)

• Sulfoxaflor exposure reduces egg laying in bumblebees Bombus terrestris

  Siviter, H., Horner, J., Brown, M. & Leadbeater, E., 9 Jan 2020, In: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY. p. 1-10 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2019

  Busier bees: increasing nest traffic in commercial bumblebee colonies

  Martin, C., Toner, C., Fountain, M. T. & Brown, M., 2019, In: Journal of Pollination Ecology. 25, 2, p. 7-15 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  50 Downloads (Pure)

• Flagellum Removal by a Nectar Metabolite Inhibits Infectivity of a Bumblebee Parasite

  Koch, H., Woodward, J., Langat, M. K., Brown, M. J. F. & Stevenson, P., 21 Oct 2019, In: Current Biology . 29, 20, p. 3494-3500.e5 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
  1 Downloads (Pure)

• Infection by the castrating parasitic nematode Sphaerularia bombi changes gene expression in Bombus terrestris bumblebee queens

  Colgan, T. J., Carolan, J. C., Sumner, S., Blaxter, M. L. & Brown, M. J. F., 30 Sept 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Insect Molecular Biology. p. 1-13 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  47 Downloads (Pure)

• Mating precedes selective immune priming which is maintained throughout bumblebee queen diapause

  Colgan, T. J., Finlay, S., Brown, M. J. F. & Carolan, J. C., 10 Dec 2019, In: BMC Genomics. 20, p. 1-18 18 p., 959.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  45 Downloads (Pure)

• No evidence for negative impacts of acute sulfoxaflor exposure on bee olfactory conditioning or working memory

  Siviter, H., Scott, A., Pasquier, G., Pull, C., Brown, M. & Leadbeater, E., 12 Aug 2019, In: PeerJ. 7, e7208.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  45 Downloads (Pure)

• Prevalence of Nosema microsporidians in commercial bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) is not related to the intensity of their use at the landscape scale

  Trillo, A., Brown, M. & Vila, M., Apr 2019, In: Apidologie. 50, 2, p. 234-242 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  31 Downloads (Pure)

• The effect of within-crop floral resources on pollination, aphid control and fruit quality in commercial strawberry

  Hodgkiss, D., Brown, M. & Fountain, M. T., 1 Apr 2019, In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 275, p. 112-122 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  137 Downloads (Pure)