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Directional asymmetry of honey bee wings

2013/10/E/NZ9/00682

Keywords:

honey bee Apis mellifera wing asymmetry

Descriptors:

  • NZ9_2: Animal production
  • NZ9_11: Biohazards, biological containment, biosafety, biosecurity

Panel:

NZ9 - Fundamentals of applied life sciences and biotechnology: agricultural, forestry, horticulture, animal production and fishery, food and nutrition sciences, industrial biosciences, environmental biotechnology and remediation

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie, Wydział Ogrodniczy

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Adam Tofilski 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 6

Call: SONATA BIS 3 - announced on 2013-06-14

Amount awarded: 1 498 584 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2014-07-01

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2020-06-30

Project duration:: 72 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Szybka kamera (68 000 PLN)
  2. Kamera USB (14 000 PLN)
  3. Komputer (20 000 PLN)
  4. Obiektyw.

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (15)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Body mass but not wing size or symmetry correlates with life span of honey bee drones
    Authors:
    Czekońska Krystyna, Szentgyorgyi Hajnalka, Tofilski Adam
    Academic press:
    Bulletin of Entomological Research (rok: 2019, tom: 109, strony: 383–389), Wydawca: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/S0007485318000664 - link to the publication
  2. Developmental costs of biological invasion: The exotic wood borer Tetropium fuscum (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is more asymmetric and smaller in invaded area
    Authors:
    Goczal Jakub, Rossa Robert, Nawrocka Anna, Sweeney Jon David, Tofilski Adam
    Academic press:
    Environmental Entomology (rok: 2018, tom: 47, strony: 982–989), Wydawca: OXFORD UNIV PRESS
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/ee/nvy059 - link to the publication
  3. The Effects of Starvation of Honey Bee Larvae on Reproductive Quality and Wing Asymmetry of Honey Bee Drones
    Authors:
    Hajnalka Szentgyörgyi, Krystyna Czekońska, Adam Tofilski
    Academic press:
    Journal of Apicultural Science (rok: 2017, tom: 61, strony: 233-243), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/jas-2017-0018 - link to the publication
  4. The relationship between asymmetry, size and unusal venation in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
    Authors:
    Sylwia Łopuch, Adam Tofilski
    Academic press:
    Bulletin of Entomological Research (rok: 2016, tom: 106, strony: 304–313), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/S0007485315000784 - link to the publication
  5. Honey bees are larger and live longer after developing at low temperature
    Authors:
    Szentgyorgyi Hajnalka, Czekonska Krystyna, Tofilski Adam
    Academic press:
    Journal of Thermal Biology (rok: 2018, tom: 78, strony: 219-226), Wydawca: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.jtherbio.2018.09.007 - link to the publication
  6. Use of high-speed video recording to detect wing beating produced by honey bees
    Authors:
    Łopuch Sylwia, Tofilski Adam
    Academic press:
    Insectes Sociaux (rok: 2019, tom: 66, strony: 235–244), Wydawca: SPRINGER
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s00040-018-00678-5 - link to the publication
  7. Direct visual observation of wing movements during the honey bee waggle dance
    Authors:
    Sylwia Łopuch, Adam Tofilski
    Academic press:
    Journal of Insect Behaviour (rok: 2017, tom: 30, strony: 199-210), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10905-017-9610-8 - link to the publication
  8. Monthly changes in honey bee forewings estimated using geometric morphometrics
    Authors:
    Janczyk Anna, Tofilski Adam
    Academic press:
    Journal of Apicultural Science (rok: 2021, tom: 65, strony: 139 - 146), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.2478/jas-2021-0002 - link to the publication
  9. Morphometric identification of the endemic Maltese honey bee (Apis mellifera ruttneri)
    Authors:
    Anna Janczyk, Marina Doris Meixner, Adam Tofilski
    Academic press:
    Journal of Apicultural Research (rok: 2021, tom: 60, strony: 157-164), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/00218839.2020.1827705 - link to the publication
  10. Importance of wing movements for information transfer during honey bee waggle dance
    Authors:
    Łopuch Sylwia, Tofilski Adam
    Academic press:
    Ethology (rok: 2017, tom: 123, strony: 974–980), Wydawca: WILEY
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/eth.12703 - link to the publication
  11. Forewing structure of the solitary bee Osmia bicornis developing on heavy metal pollution gradient
    Authors:
    Hajnalka Szentgyorgyi, Dawid Moroń, Anna Nawrocka, Dawid, Adam Tofilski, Michał Woyciechowski
    Academic press:
    Ecotoxicology (rok: 2017, tom: 26, strony: 1031-1040), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10646-017-1831-2 - link to the publication
  12. Computer software for identification of honey bee subspecies and evolutionary lineages
    Authors:
    Nawrocka Anna, Kandemir Irfan, Fuchs Stefan, Tofilski Adam
    Academic press:
    Apidologie (rok: 2018, tom: 49, strony: 172-184), Wydawca: SPRINGER
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s13592-017-0538-y - link to the publication
  13. Historical changes in honey bee wing venation in Romania
    Authors:
    Tofilski A., Căuia E., Siceanu A., Vișan G.O., Căuia D.
    Academic press:
    Insects (rok: 2021, tom: 12, strony: 542), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/insects12060542 - link to the publication
  14. Impact of the quality of food sources on the wing beating of honey bee dancers
    Authors:
    Łopuch Sylwia, Tofilski Adam
    Academic press:
    Apidologie (rok: 2020, tom: 51, strony: 631–641), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s13592-020-00748-3 - link to the publication
  15. Influence of pollen deprivation on the forewing asymmetry of honeybee workers and drones
    Authors:
    Hajnalka Szentgyorgyi, Krystyna Czekońska, Adam Tofilski
    Academic press:
    Apidologie (rok: 2016, tom: 47, strony: 653-662), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s13592-015-0415-5 - link to the publication
  1. The influence of imidacloprid contamination of larval food on honey bee worker wing venation
    Authors:
    Janczyk Anna, Tofilski Adam
    Book:
    Conference proceedings of 57th Scientific Conference of Apiculture (rok: 2021, tom: 57, strony: 137-148), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwerstetu Śląskiego
    Status:
    Published