| 2024 |
Bernauer, O. M., Branstetter, M. G., Cook, J. M., & Tierney, S. M. (2024). Functional trait mismatch between native and introduced bee pollinators servicing a global fruit crop. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 24(1), 18 pages.
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| 2023 |
Chapman, N. C., Colin, T., Cook, J., da Silva, C. R. B., Gloag, R., Hogendoorn, K., . . . Mikheyev, A. S. (2023). The final frontier: ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a global parasite invasion.. Biology Letters, 19(5), 7 pages.
DOI Scopus16 WoS2 Europe PMC13 |
| 2023 |
Tierney, S. M., Bernauer, O. M., King, L., Spooner-Hart, R., & Cook, J. M. (2023). Bee pollination services and the burden of biogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2000), 12 pages.
DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC3 |
| 2022 |
Shokri Bousjein, N., Tierney, S. M., Gardner, M. G., & Schwarz, M. P. (2022). Does effective population size affect rates of molecular evolution: Mitochondrial data for host/parasite species pairs in bees suggests not. Ecology and Evolution, 12(2), 13 pages.
DOI Europe PMC1 |
| 2022 |
Bernauer, O. M., Cook, J. M., & Tierney, S. M. (2022). Division of foraging behaviour: Assessments of pollinator traits when visiting a model plant species. Animal Behaviour, 188, 169-179.
DOI Scopus6 WoS3 |
| 2022 |
Langille, B. L., Tierney, S. M., Bertozzi, T., Beasley-Hall, P. G., Bradford, T. M., Fagan-Jeffries, E. P., . . . Cooper, S. J. B. (2022). Parallel decay of vision genes in subterranean water beetles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 173, 1-9.
DOI Scopus12 WoS4 Europe PMC4 |
| 2022 |
Bernauer, O. M., Tierney, S. M., & Cook, J. M. (2022). Efficiency and effectiveness of native bees and honey bees as pollinators of apples in New South Wales orchards. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 337, 11 pages.
DOI Scopus20 WoS8 |
| 2022 |
Beasley-Hall, P. G., Bertozzi, T., Bradford, T. M., Foster, C. S. P., Jones, K., Tierney, S. M., . . . Cooper, S. J. B. (2022). Differential transcriptomic responses to heat stress in surface and subterranean diving beetles. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-11.
DOI Scopus8 WoS3 Europe PMC4 |
| 2021 |
Stringer, D., Bertozzi, T., Meusemann, K., Delean, J., Guzik, M., Tierney, S., . . . Austin, A. (2021). Development and evaluation of a custom bait design based on 469 single-copy protein-coding genes for exon capture of isopods (Philosciidae: Haloniscus). PLoS One, 16(9), 1-24.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1 |
| 2021 |
Bernauer, O. M., Cook, J. M., & Tierney, S. M. (2021). Nesting biology and social organisation of the allodapine bee Exoneura angophorae (Hymenoptera: Apidae): montane environmental constraints yield biased sex allocation yet phenology is unhindered. Insectes Sociaux, 68(4), 337-349.
DOI Scopus7 WoS4 |
| 2021 |
Freelance, C. B., Tierney, S. M., Rodriguez, J., Stuart-Fox, D. M., Wong, B. B. M., & Elgar, M. A. (2021). The eyes have it: Dim-light activity is associated with the morphology of eyes but not antennae across insect orders. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 134(2), 303-315.
DOI Scopus9 WoS3 |
| 2021 |
Beasley-Hall, P. G., Bertozzi, T., Bradford, T. M., Foster, C. S. P., Jones, K., Tierney, S. M., . . . Cooper, S. J. B. (2021). Stressed out underground?: Transcriptomics illuminates the genome-wide response to heat stress in surface and subterranean diving beetles.
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| 2020 |
Langille, B. L., Hyde, J., Saint, K. M., Bradford, T. M., Stringer, D. N., Tierney, S. M., . . . Cooper, S. J. B. (2020). Evidence for speciation underground in diving beetles (Dytiscidae) from a subterranean archipelago. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 75(1), 166-175.
DOI Scopus23 WoS12 Europe PMC4 |
| 2019 |
Freelance, C. B., Majoe, M., Tierney, S. M., & Elgar, M. A. (2019). Antennal asymmetry is not associated with social behaviour in Australian Hymenoptera. Austral Entomology, 58(3), 589-594.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4 |
| 2019 |
Langille, B. L., Tierney, S. M., Austin, A. D., Humphreys, W. F., & Cooper, S. J. B. (2019). How blind are they? Phototactic responses in stygobiont diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from calcrete aquifers of Western Australia. Austral Entomology, 58(2), 425-431.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8 |
| 2018 |
Klopfstein, S., Van Der Schyff, G., Tierney, S., & Austin, A. (2018). Wolbachia infections in Australian ichneumonid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): Evidence for adherence to the global equilibrium hypothesis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 123(3), 518-534.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5 |
| 2018 |
Dew, R. M., Tierney, S. M., & Schwarz, M. P. (2018). Lack of ovarian skew in an allodapine bee and the evolution of casteless social behaviour. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 30(1), 51-69.
DOI Scopus6 WoS4 |
| 2018 |
Beasley-Hall, P., Tierney, S., Weinstein, P., & Austin, A. (2018). A revised phylogeny of macropathine cave crickets (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) uncovers a paraphyletic Australian fauna. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 126, 153-161.
DOI Scopus10 WoS6 Europe PMC4 |
| 2018 |
Tierney, S. M., Langille, B., Humphreys, W. F., Austin, A. D., & Cooper, S. J. (2018). Massive parallel regression: a précis of genetic mechanisms for vision loss in diving beetles. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 58(3), 465-479.
DOI Scopus15 WoS11 Europe PMC4 |
| 2017 |
Tierney, S., Friedrich, M., Humphreys, W., Jones, T., Warrant, E., & Wcislo, W. (2017). Consequences of evolutionary transitions in changing photic environments. Austral Entomology, 56(1), 23-46.
DOI Scopus52 WoS43 |
| 2017 |
Dew, R., Tierney, S., Gardner, M., & Schwarz, M. (2017). Casteless behaviour in social groups of the bee Exoneurella eremophila. Apidologie, 49(2), 1-11.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2 |
| 2016 |
Dew, R., Tierney, S., & Schwarz, M. (2016). Social evolution and casteless societies: needs for new terminology and a new evolutionary focus. Insectes Sociaux, 63(1), 5-14.
DOI Scopus24 WoS20 |
| 2015 |
Rehan, S., Tierney, S., & Wcislo, W. (2015). Evidence for social nesting in Neotropical ceratinine bees. Insectes Sociaux, 62(4), 465-469.
DOI Scopus15 WoS15 |
| 2015 |
Tierney, S., Cooper, S., Saint, K., Bertozzi, T., Hyde, J., Humphreys, W., & Austin, A. (2015). Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles: a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches. Royal Society Open Science, 2(1), 140386-1-140386-12.
DOI Scopus36 WoS29 Europe PMC15 |
| 2013 |
Smith, J., Chenoweth, L., Tierney, S., & Schwarz, M. (2013). Repeated origins of social parasitism in allodapine bees indicate that the weak form of Emery's rule is widespread, yet sympatric speciation remains highly problematic. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 109(2), 320-331.
DOI Scopus26 WoS25 Europe PMC4 |
| 2013 |
Tierney, S. M., Fischer, C. N., Rehan, S. M., Kapheim, K. M., & Wcislo, W. T. (2013). Frequency of social nesting in the sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) does not vary across a rainfall gradient, despite disparity in brood production and body size. Insectes Sociaux, 60(2), 163-172.
DOI Scopus11 WoS11 |
| 2012 |
Dew, R., Rehan, S., Tierney, S., Chenoweth, L., & Schwarz, M. (2012). A single origin of large colony size in allodapine bees suggests a threshold event among 50 million years of evolutionary tinkering. Insectes Sociaux, 59(2), 207-214.
DOI Scopus13 WoS14 |
| 2012 |
Tierney, S., Sanjur, O., Grajales, G., Santos, L., Bermingham, E., & Wcislo, W. (2012). Photic niche invasions: phylogenetic history of the dim-light foraging augochlorine bees (Halictidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1729), 794-803.
DOI Scopus25 WoS21 Europe PMC7 |
| 2011 |
Schwarz, M., Tierney, S., Rehan, S., Chenoweth, L., & Cooper, S. (2011). The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: Workers began by waiting. Biology Letters, 7(2), 277-280.
DOI Scopus47 WoS45 Europe PMC16 |
| 2010 |
Santos, L., Tierney, S., & Wcislo, W. (2010). Nest descriptions of Megalopta aegis (Vachal) and M. guimaraesi Santos & Silveira (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado = Descrição dos ninhos de Megalopta aegis (Vachal) e M. guimaraesi Santos & Silveira (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) do Cerrado. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 54(2), 332-334.
DOI Scopus8 WoS8 |
| 2009 |
Wcislo, W., & Tierney, S. (2009). Behavioural environments and niche construction: the evolution of dim-light foraging in bees. Biological Reviews, 84(1), 19-37.
DOI Scopus69 WoS56 Europe PMC26 |
| 2009 |
Tierney, S., & Schwarz, M. (2009). Reproductive hierarchies in the African allodapine bee Allodapula dichroa (Apidae; Xylocopinae) and ancestral forms of sociality. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 97(3), 520-530.
DOI Scopus12 WoS12 Europe PMC3 |
| 2008 |
Tierney, S., Gonzales-Ojeda, T., & Wcislo, W. (2008). Biology of a nocturnal bee, Megalopta atra (Hymenoptera: Halictidae; Augochlorini), from the Panamanian highlands. Journal of Natural History, 42(27-28), 1841-1847.
DOI Scopus15 WoS11 |
| 2008 |
Tierney, S., Gonzales-Ojeda, T., & Wcislo, W. (2008). Nesting biology and social behavior of Xenochlora bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) from Perú. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81(1), 61-72.
DOI Scopus22 WoS19 |
| 2008 |
Chenoweth, L., Fuller, S., Tierney, S., Park, Y., & Schwarz, M. (2008). Hasinamelissa: a new genus of allodapine bee from Madagascar revealed by larval morphology and DNA sequence data. Systematic Entomology, 33(4), 700-710.
DOI Scopus12 WoS13 |
| 2008 |
Tierney, S., Smith, J., Chenoweth, L., & Schwarz, M. (2008). Phylogenetics of allodapine bees: a review of social evolution, parasitism and biogeography. Apidologie, 39(1), 3-15.
DOI Scopus27 WoS24 |
| 2007 |
Chenoweth, L., Tierney, S., Smith, J., Cooper, S., & Schwarz, M. (2007). Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7(246), WWW 1-WWW 9.
DOI Scopus29 WoS29 Europe PMC14 |
| 2007 |
Smith, J. A., Tierney, S. M., Park, Y. C., Fuller, S., & Schwarz, M. P. (2007). Origins of social parasitism: The importance of divergence ages in phylogenetic studies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43(3), 1131-1137.
DOI Scopus29 WoS26 Europe PMC11 |
| 2006 |
Schwarz, M., Fuller, S., Tierney, S., & Cooper, S. (2006). Molecular phylogenetics of the exoneurine allodapine bees reveal an ancient and puzzling dispersal from Africa to Australia. Systematic Biology, 55(1), 31-45.
DOI Scopus64 WoS62 Europe PMC35 |
| 2006 |
Aenmey, T. K., Tierney, S. M., Pillay, N., & Schwarz, M. P. (2006). Nesting biology of an African allodapine bee braunsapis vitrea: Female biased sex allocation in the absence of worker-like behavioural castes. Ethology Ecology and Evolution, 18(3), 205-220.
DOI Scopus11 WoS10 |
| 2005 |
Fuller, S., Schwarz, M., & Tierney, S. (2005). Phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: Historical biogeography and long-range dispersal over water. Journal of Biogeography, 32(12), 2135-2144.
DOI Scopus70 WoS68 |
| 2005 |
Schwarz, M. P., Tierney, S. M., Zammit, J., Schwarz, P. M., & Fuller, S. (2005). Brood provisioning and colony composition of a Malagasy species of Halterapis: Implications for social evolution in the allodapine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 98(1), 126-133.
DOI Scopus23 WoS25 Europe PMC11 |
| 2004 |
Schwartz, M., Tierney, S., Cooper, S., & Bull, N. (2004). Molecular phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: A-T bias and heterogeneous substitution parameters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 32(1), 110-122.
DOI Scopus42 WoS44 Europe PMC25 |
| 2003 |
Tierney, S. M., & Schwarz, M. P. (2003). Taxonomic description of allodapine bees from the Zanzibar archipelago, genus Macrogalea (Hymenoptera: Apidae). African Entomology, 11(2), 199-203.
Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 2002 |
Tierney, S. M., Schwarz, M. P., Neville, T., & Schwarz, P. M. (2002). Sociality in the phylogenetically basal allodapine bee genus Macrogalea (Apidae: Xylocopinae): Implications for social evolution in the tribe Allodapini. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 76(2), 211-224.
DOI Scopus29 WoS30 Europe PMC8 |
| 2000 |
Tierney, S. M., Cronin, A. L., Loussert, N., & Schwarz, M. P. (2000). The biology of Brevineura froggatti and phylogenetic conservatism in Australian allodapine bees (Apidae, Allodapini). Insectes Sociaux, 47(1), 96-97.
DOI Scopus26 WoS26 |
| 1998 |
Neville, T., Schwarz, M. P., & Tierney, S. M. (1998). Biology of a weakly social bee, Exoneura (Exoneurella) setosa (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and implications for social evolution in Australian allodapine bees. Australian Journal of Zoology, 46(3), 221-234.
DOI Scopus15 WoS15 |
| 1997 |
Tierney, S. M., Schwarz, M. P., & Adams, M. (1997). Social behaviour in an Australian allodapine bee Exoneura (Brevineura) xanthoclypeata (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 45(4), 385-398.
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