Deborah Smith
ProfessorEntomology
Ph.D., Cornell University
3038 Haworth Hall
Phone: (785) 864-4340
Area of Interest and Research
My research combines molecular systematics with the study of social arthropods. I am particularly interested in the systematics, population biology and biogeography of honey bees (Apis ) and social spiders (Anelosimus & Stegodyphus).
Representative Publications
Selected Papers on Biology of Apis and other bees
Koeniger, N. , G. Koeniger, and D. R. Smith. 2011. Phylogeny of honeybees. pp. 23-50. In: Hepburn, H.R. and S.E. Radloff (eds.). Honeybees of Asia. Springer Verlag.
Smith, D. R. 2011. Asian honey bees and mitochondrial DNA). pp. 69-93. In: Hepburn, H.R. and S.E. Radloff (eds.). Honeybees of Asia. Springer Verlag.
Thummajitsakul, S., Klinbunga, S., Smith, D., and Sittipraneed, S. (2008) Genetic diversity and population structure of Trigona pagdeni Schwarz in Thailand. Apidologie 39 (4): 446–455.
Suppasat, T., Smith, D. R., Deowanish, S. and Wongsiri, S. (2007) Matrilineal origins of Apis mellifera in Thailand. Apidologie 38: 323–334
Whitfield, C. W., Behura, S. K., Berlocher, S., Clark, A. G., Johnston, S., Sheppard, W. S. Smith, D., Suarez, A. V., Weaver, D., Tsutsui, N. D (2006) Thrice out of Africa: ancient and modern expansions of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Science 314:642-649
Cho, S. Huang, Z. Y., Green D. R., Smith, D. R. and Zhang, J. (2006) Evolution of the complementary sex-determination gene of honey bees: Balancing selection and trans-species polymorphisms. Genome Research 16: 1366–1375.
Warrit, N. Smith, D. R. and Lekprayoon, C. (2006) Genetic subpopulations of Varroa mites and their Apis cerana hosts in Thailand. Apidologie 37:19–30.
DeGrandi-Hoffman, G., Schneider, S. S. and Smith, D. R. (2004) The African Honeybee: Factors Contributing to a Successful Biological Invasion. Annual Review of Entomology 49:351–376.
Selected Papers on Spider Biology and Sociality
Su, Y.-C., Y.-H. Chang, D. Smith, M.-S. Zhu, M. Kuntner, and I.-M. Tso. 2011. Biogeography and speciation patterns of the Golden Orb Spider Genus Nephila (Araneae: Nephilidae) in Asia), Zoological Science 28(1): 47-55
Smith D., van Rijn, S., Henschel, J., Bilde, T. and Lubin, Y.2009. AFLP fingerprints support limited gene flow among social spider populations. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Johannesen, J., Lubin, Y., Smith, D. R., and Schneider, J. 2007. Age and evolution of sociality in Stegodyphus spiders: a molecular phylogeneic perspective. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274: 231–237.
Bilde T., Lubin Y., Smith D., Schneider J. M, Maklakov A. A. 2005. The transition to social inbred mating systems in spiders: role of inbreeding tolerance in a subsocial predecessor. Evolution 59(1): 160–174.
Whitehouse, M., Agnarsson, I., Miyashita, T., Smith, D., Cangialosi, K., Masumoto, T., Li, D. and Henaut, Y. .2002. Argyrodes: Phylogeny, sociality and interspecific interactions: A report on the Argyrodes Symposium, Badplaas 2001. Journal of Arachnology 30(2): 238-245


