Deborah Smith - Entomology
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
3038 Haworth Hall
Phone: (785) 864-4340
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).
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.
Sheppard, W. S. and Smith, D. R. (2000) Identification of African-derived bees in the Americas: A Survey of Methods. Annals of the American Entomological Society 93: 159–176.
Smith, D. R., Crespi, B., and Bookstein, F. (1997) The Procrustes method and fluctuating asymmetry in the honey bee, Apis mellifera: effects of ploidy and hybridization. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 10:551–574.
Smith, D. R. and Hagen, R. H. (1997) The biogeography of Apis cerana as revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 69(4) suppl., 294-310.
Hall, H. G. and Smith, D. R. (1991) Distinguishing African and European honeybee matrilines using amplified mitochondrial DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 88: 4548–4552.
Smith, D. R., Taylor, O. R, and Brown, W. M. (1989) Neotropical Africanized honeybees have African mitochondrial DNA. Nature 339: 213–215.
Smith D., van Rijn, S., Henschel, J., Bilde, T. and Lubin, Y. (2009 in press) 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
Smith, D. R. and Hagen, R. H., 1996. Population structure and Interdemic selection in the cooperative spider Anelosimus eximius (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 9:589–608.
Smith, D. R. and Engel, M. S., 1994. Population structure in an Indian cooperative spider, Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch (Eresidae). Journal of Arachnology 22:108–113.
Smith, D. R., 1983. The ecological costs and benefits of communal behavior in a presocial spider. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 13: 107–114.
Smith, D. R., 1982. Reproductive success of solitary and communal Philoponellaoweni (Araneae: Uloboridae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 11: 149–154.
Smith, D. R., 1980. Predation by Argyrodes (Theridiidae) on solitary and communal spiders. Psyche 97: 349–355.
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