Dr. Esmaeil Amiri

Amiri, E., 2025. Near-complete genome sequence of a type-A deformed wing virus discovered from Solenopsis invicta in Mississippi, USA. Microbiology Resource Announcements 14(2):e00921.

Amiri, E., Valizadeh, B., Zhu, Y., Caren, J., Huang, L. 2025. Indirect effects of insecticides on honey bee queens and their eggs via workers exposed to sublethal doses. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 307:119403.

Amiri, E., Alger, S. A., Burnham, P., Miller, M., Jordan, C., Wagoner, K. 2025. Unhealthy brood odor scores predict pathogen loads of several important honey bee diseases. Frontiers in Bee Science 3:1509871.

Amiri, E., Valizadeh, B., Hardy, J., Chen, J. 2025. Dynamics of Israeli acute paralysis virus in the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren) colonies. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 211.

Amiri, E., Abou-Shaara, H., McAfee, A. 2025. The effect of major abiotic stressors on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens and potential impact on their progeny. Apidologie 56(1):24.

Amiri, E., 2024. Physiological trade-offs in male social insects: Interactions among infection, immunity, fertility, size, and age in honey bee drones. Journal of Insect Physiology 159:104720.

Amiri, E., 2024. Solenopsis richteri (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) alates infected with deformed wing virus display wing deformity with altered mobility. The Science of Nature 111(5):47.

Amiri, E., 2024. Impact of commercial plastic queen cell cups on rearing success and development of honey bee queens. Journal of Apicultural Research

Amiri, E., 2023. Co-Occurrence of Wing Deformity and Impaired Mobility of Alates with Deformed Wing Virus in Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) . Insects 14(10): 788.

Amiri, E., 2023. Group size influences maternal provisioning and compensatory larval growth in honey bees. iScience 26(108546).

Han, B., Wei, ., Amiri, E., Hu, ., Meng, ., Strand, . K., Tarpy, D. R., Xu, S., Li, J., Rueppell, O. 2022. The molecular basis of socially induced egg-size plasticity in honey bees. Elife 11:e80499.

Chapman, A., Amiri, E., Han, B., McDermott, E., Rueppell, O., Tarpy, D. R., Foster, . J., McAfee, A. 2022. Fertility costs of cryptic viral infections in a model social insect. Scientific Reports 12:15857.

Abou-Shaara, H., Amiri, E., Parys, K. A. 2022. Tracking the Effects of Climate Change on the Distribution of Plecia nearctica (Diptera, Bibionidae) in the USA Using MaxEnt and GIS. Diversity 18(8):690.

Abou Shaara, H., Kryger, P., Chauzet, M., Amiri, E. 2022. Possible Role of Geographical Location and Queen Absence on Damage of Small Hive Beetles (Aethina tumida Murray) on Honey Bee Colonies. Bee World 99(4):127-130.

Amiri, E., 2020. Egg transcriptome profile responds to maternal virus infection in honey bees, Apis mellifera. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 85.

Yañez, O., Piot, N., Dalmon, A., de Miranda, J. R., Chantawannakul, P., Panziera, D., Amiri, E., Smagghe, G., Schroeder, D., Chejanovsky, N. 2020. Bee Viruses: Routes of Infection in Hymenoptera. Frontiers in Microbiology 11.

Amiri, E., 2020. Egg-size plasticity in Apis mellifera: Honey bee queens alter egg size in response to both genetic and environmental factors. Journal of Evolutionary Biology