Sujaya Rao

(2015-2020)

Petersen, M., Olson, O. and Rao, S. 2020. University Student Perspectives of Entomophagy: Positive Attitudes Leads to Observability and Education Opportunities. Journal of Insect Science. 20(5): 30. https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieaa120

Reilly, J., Artz, D. R., Biddinger, D…Rao, S. …Winfree, R. 2020. Crop yield in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20200922. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0922

Neave, M. J., Brown, J., Batley, M., Rao, S., Cunningham, S. A. 2020. Phenology of a bee community over a ten year period in South Eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12488

Lybrand, R., Fedenko, J., Tfaily, M. and Rao, S. 2020. Soil properties and biochemical composition of ground-dwelling bees and sand wasp nests in agricultural settings. Soil Science Society of America Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20085

Nicholson, C., Ward, K., Williams, N., Isaacs., Mason, K., Wilson, J., Brokaw, J. Gut, L., Rothwell, N., Wood, T., Rao, S., Hoffman, G., Gibbs, J., Thorp, R., Ricketts, T. 2020. Mismatched outcomes for biodiversity and ecosystem services: testing the responses of crop pollinators and wild bee biodiversity to habitat enhancement. Ecology Letters. 23: 326-335.  https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13435

Lande, C., Rao, S., Morré, J. T., Galindo, G., Kirby, J., Reardon, P. N., Bobe, G., Stevens, J. F. 2019.  Linden (Tilia cordata) associated bumble bee mortality: Metabolomic analysis of nectar and bee muscle. PLoS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218406

Rao, S., Hoffman, G., Kirby, J., Horne, D. 2019. Remarkable long-distance returns to a forage patch by artificially displaced wild bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of Apicultural Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2019.1584962

Hoffman, G., Lande, C., Rao, S. 2018. A novel pollen transfer mechanism by honey bee foragers on highbush blueberry (Ericales: Ericaceae). Environ Entomol. 47(6):1465-1470. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvy162

Ostroverkhova, O., Galindo, G., Lande, C., Kirby, J., Hoffman, G., Rao, S. 2018. Understanding innate preferences of wild bee species: responses to wavelength-dependent selective excitation of blue and green photoreceptor types. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 204(7): 667-675.  DOI: 10.1007/s00359-018-1269-x

Ahn, S-J., Martin, R., Rao, S and Choi, M-Y. 2017. Neuropeptides predicted from the transcriptome analysis of the gray garden slug Deroceras reticulatum.  Peptides. DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2017.05.005

Ahn, S-J., Martin, R., Rao, S and Choi, M-Y. 2017. The complete mitochondrial genome of the gray garden slug Deroceras reticulatum (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora). Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2017.1318677

Rao, S. Poinar, G. and Henley, D. 2016. A scientific note on rare parasitism of the bumble bee pollinator, Bombus impatiens, by a mermithid nematode, Pheromermis sp. (Nematoda: Mermithidae). Apidologie. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-016-0451-9

Kang, L., Natarajan, A., Rao, S. and Chiang, P. 2016. Design and Optimization of Area-Constrained Wirelessly-Powered CMOS UWB SoC for Localization Applications. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.64: 1042-1054. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2536663

Rao, S. and Ostroverkhova, O. 2015. Visual outdoor response of multiple wild bee species: highly selective stimulation of a single photoreceptor by sunlight-induced fluorescence. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 201: 705-716. DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-0983-x

Maxfield-Taylor, S., Mujic, A. B., and Rao, S. 2015. First detection of the larval chalkbrood disease pathogen, Ascosphaera apis (Ascomycota: Eurotiomycetes: Ascosphaerales) in adult bumble bees. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0124868. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124868