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Scientific publications (Peer reviewed)

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  1. Rodrigues IF, Mégret R, Acuña E, Agosto J, Giray T (2018). Recognition of pollen-bearing bees from Video using Convolutional Neural Network. WACV 2018: IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision.Lake Tahoe, NV/CA, USA.

  2. 2017. Avalos A, Pan H, Li C, Acevedo-Gonzalez JP5, Rendon G, Fields CJ, Brown PJ, Giray T, Robinson GE, Hudson ME, Zhang G. A soft selective sweep during rapid evolution of gentle behaviour in an Africanized honeybee. Nat Commun. 8(1):1550. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01800-0.

  3. 2015. Ocasio Torres, M., Giray, T., Crowl, T., Sabat, A.M. 2015. Antipredator defense mechanisms in the amphidromous shrimp Xiphocaris elongata (Decapoda: Xiphocarididae): rostrum length.  Journal of Natural History, in press.

  4. 2015.Giray, T., Abramson, C.I., Chicas-Mosier, A., Brewster, T., Hayes, C., Rivera-Vega, K., Williams, M., Wells, H. 2015. Effect of octopamine manipulation on honey bee decision making: reward and cost differences associated with foraging.  Animal Behaviour 100:144-150.

  5. 2014. Giannoni-Guzman, M.A., Giray, T., Agosto-Rivera, J.R., Stevison, B.K., Freeman, B., Ricci, P., Brown, E.A., Abramson, C.I. 2014. Ethanol-induced effects on sting extension response and punishment learning in the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera).  PLoSONE 9(7): e100894. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0100894.

  6. 2014. Avalos, A., M., Rodriguez-Cruz, Y., Giray, T. 2014. Individual responsiveness to shock and colony-level aggression in honey bees: evidence for a genetic component.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology DOI 10.1007/s00265-014-1689-8.

  7. 2014. Giannoni-Guzman, M.A., Avalos, A., Perez, J.M., Loperena, E.J.O., Kayim, M., Medina, J.A., Massey, S.E., Kence, A, Kence, M., Giray, T., Agosto-Rivera, J.L. 2014.Measuring individual locomotor rhythms in honey bees and other similar-sized insects. Journal of Experimental Biology 217:1307-1315.

  8. 2013. Galindo-Cardona, A., Acevedo, J.P., Rivera-Marchand, B., Giray, T. 2013.  Genetic structure of the gentle Africanized honey bee population (gAHB) in Puerto Rico.  BMC Genetics 14 (1): 1-12.

  9. 2013.  Kence, M., Oskay, D., Giray, T., Kence, A.  2013.  Honey bee colonies of different races show variation in defenses against the varroa mite in a ‘common garden’. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 149 (1): 36-43.

  10. 2013. Crain, B.J.,  Giray,T., Abramson C.I.  A Tool for Every Job: Assessing the Need for a Universal Definition of Tool Use.  International Journal of Comparative Psychology 26 (4), 281-303.

  11. 2013. Dinges, C.W., Avalos, A., Abramson, C.I., Philip, D.,  Craig, A., Austin, Z.M., Varnon, C.A.,  Dal, F.N., Giray, T., Wells, H. 2013.  Aversive conditioning in honey bees (Apis mellifera anatolica): a comparison of drones and workers.  Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 4124-34.

  12. 2013.  Abramson, C.I.,Giray T., Huang, Z.Y., Xie, X. 2013.  Opportunities for collaborative research with honey bees in Turkey and China. Bulletin of Insectology 66 (2), 315-318.

  13. 2012.  Huang, Z.Y., Giray, T. 2012.  Factors affecting pollinators and pollination.  Psyche, 2012:302409 3 pages, doi:10.1155/2012/302409.

  14. 2012.  Delgado, D.L., Perez, M.E., Galindo-Cardona, A., Giray, T., Restrepo, C.  Forecasting the influence of climate change on agroecosystem services: Impacts on honey yields in a small-island developing state.  Psyche, 2012:951215 10 pages, doi:10.1155/2012/951215.

  15. 2012.  Galindo-cardona, A., Moreno-Jackson, R., Rivera-Rivera, C., Huertas-Dones, C., Caicedo-Quiroga, L. Giray, T. 2012. Where are the Drone Congregation Areas of the honeybee Apis mellifera?   Journal of Insect Science, 12:122.

  16. 2012.  Rivera-Marchand, B., Oskay, D., Giray, T. (2012) Gentle Africanized bees on an oceanic island.  Evolutionary Applications. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00252.x/full

  17. 2011. Agarwal, M.; Giannoni Guzmán, M.; Morales, C.; Del Valle, R.; Abramson, C.I.; Giray, T.  (2011).  Dopamine and octopamine Influence passive avoidance learning of honey bees in a place preference assay.  PLoS ONE. 6(9): e25371. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025371

  18. 2010. Cakmak, I., Song, D. S., Mixson, T. A., Serrano, E., Clement, M. L., Savitski, A. Johnson, G., Giray, T., Abramson, C. I., Barthell, J. F., & Wells, H. Foraging response of honeybee subspecies to flower color choices and reward consistency. Insect Behavior, 23, 100-116.

  19. 2010.  Abramson, C. I., Giray, T., Mixson, T. A., Nolf, S. L., Wells, H., Kence, A., & Kence, M.Proboscis conditioning experiments with honey bees (Apis mellifera caucasica) show butyric acid and DEET not to be repellents. Journal of Insect Science.  10 (122):1-17 http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1673/031.010.12201

  20. 2009.  Giray, T., Kence, M., Oskay, D., Doke, M.A., Kence, A.  Scientific note: colony losses survey in Turkey and causes of bee deaths  Apidologie 41 (2010): 451-453. DOI: 10.1051/apido/2009077.

  21. 2008. Rivera-Marchand, B., Guzman-Novoa, E., Giray, T. The cost of defense in social insects: insights from the honey bee. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 129: 1-10.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1570 7458.2008.00747.x

  22. 2008. Otero, T. Silverstone-Sopkin, P., Chacón, P., Giray, T.  Group nesting and individual variation in behavior and physiology in the orchid bee Euglossa nigropilosa  Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Insectes Sociaux 55: 320-328.  DOI 10.1007/s00040-008-1009-2

  23. 2008. Rivera-Marchand, B., Keularts, J., Oskay, D., Giray, T.Africanized honey bees in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.  Caribbean J. Science

  24. 2007. Giray, T., Kence, M., Kence, A.  Comparison of efficacy of HiveCleanTM and PerizinTM against Varroa.  U. Bee J.  7: 26-29.

  25. 2007. Giray, T., Cakmak, I, Aydin, L.,, Kandemir, I., Inci, A., Oskay, D., Doke, M.A.,  Kence, M., Kence, A.  Preliminary survey results on 2006-2007 colony losses in Turkey.  U. Bee J.  7: 101-107.

  26. 2007. Galindo-Cardona, A., Giray, T., Sabat, A.M., Reyes-Castillo, P.  Bess  beetle (Coleoptera: Passalidae): substrate availability, dispersal, and distribution in a  subtropical wet forest.  Ann. Ent. Soc. Am.  100: 711-720.

  27. 2007. Giray, T., Galindo-Cardona, A., Oskay, D.  Octopamine influences  honey bee foraging preference.  J. Insect Phys. 53: 691-698. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.03.016.

  28. 2005. Giray, T., Giovanetti, M,, West-Eberhard, M.J.  Worker division of labor and its hormonal regulation in the primitively eusocial wasp Polistes canadensis Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102: 3330-3335.

  29. 2004. Henry, T.T., Giray, T., Turner, T.  Differences in flight muscle contractile proteins of the worker honey bee, Apis mellifera at typical colony temperature ranges. Int. Comp. Biol. 43: 958.

  30. 2003. Soucy, S., Giray T., Roubik, D.W.  Solitary and group nesting in the orchid bee Euglossa hyacinthina.  Insectes Sociaux 50: 248-55.

  31. 2001. Giray, T. Yvette, Stevens, L. Physiological bases of genetic differences in cannibalism behavior of the confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum. Evolution  55: 797-806.

  32. 2000. Giray, T., Guzman-Novoa, E., Aron, C.W., Zelinsky, B., Fahrbach, S.E., Robinson, G.E.  "Genetic variation in worker temporal polyethism and colony defensiveness in the honey bee, Apis mellifera." Behav. Ecol. 11: 44-55.

  33. 1999. Giray, T. Huang, Z.-Y., Guzman-Novoa, E., Robinson, G.E. Physiological correlates of genetic variation for rate of behavioral development in the honeybee, Apis mellifera.  Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.  47: 17-28.

  34. 1997. Fahrbach, S.E., Giray, T., Farris, S.M., Robinson, G.E.  Expansion of the neuropil of the mushroom bodies in honey bee drones is coincident with flight and increase in JH titers.  Neuroscience Letters, 236:135-138.

  35. 1996. Giray, T. and G.E. Robinson.  Endocrine-mediated behavioral development in male honey bees and the evolution of division of labor.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93: 11718-22.

  36. 1995. Fahrbach, S.E., Giray, T. and G.E. Robinson.  Naturally occuring volume changes in the mushroom bodies of adult honey bee queen brains. (formerly Neural and Behavioral Biology) Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 63 (2): 181-191.

  37. 1994.  Giray, T. and G.E. Robinson.  Intracolony differences in plasticity in age-related division of labor in honey bee colonies are based on differences in rates of behavioral development.  Behav. Ecol. and Sociobiol., 35(1): 13 - 20.

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Other publications 

 

  1. 2012  Giray, T.  What do bees do inside the hive? (In Turkish)  Standard (Technical publication of Turkish Institute for Standards) June 2012.

  2. 2011  Abramson C.I., Giray, T. 2011. The first international symposium and workshop on honey bee behavioral plasticity. Bulletin of Insectology. 64:151-152.

  3. 2011  Abramson C.I., Giray, T. 2011.  Highlights of the first international symposium and workshop on honey bee behavioral plasticity, Ankara, Turkey–September 7-9, 2010.  U. Bee J. 11: 71-72.

  4. 2009  Giray, T. Evolution of mutual aid giving and sociality.  (In Turkish)ODTÜlüler Bülteni (Middle East Technical University Bulletin)

  5. 2002. Giray, T. Bees in Science:  Bees, Beekeepers, and  Bee Researchers. (In Turkish, abstract in English)  Turkish Journal of Apiculture. 4: 9-13.

  6. 2002. Giray, T.  Bees in Science:  Honey bee genome project.  (in Turkish, abstract in English) Turkish Journal of Apiculture 3:5-6.

  7. 2002. Giray, T.  Bees in Science:  An overview of the 14th International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI)  (in Turkish, abstract in English)  A quarterly column in the Turkish Journal of Apiculture 2: 7-9. 3 pages.

  8. 2001. Giray, T.  Bees in Science:  Why bees?  (in Turkish, abstract in English)  A quarterly column in the Turkish Journal of Apiculture 2: 7-10.

  9. 2001. Giray, T. Regulation of worker aging and its function in colony organization." in Ageing in Animals and Humans: From Cell to Organism, ed.s C.L. Bolis, G. Ayala, E.R. Weibel, S. Maddrell.  Oasi Press, Troina, Italy.

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