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Dr Ros Gloag

Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology
School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Phone

+61 8627 4845

Email

ros.gloag@sydney.edu.au

Address

A11 - Old Geology Building

The University of Sydney

Details

Member of Sydney Environment Institute

Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

Websites

Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution (BEE) Lab

Room 248 - A12 Macleay

Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

Biographical details

I undertook my PhD (Zoology) at the University of Oxford investigating the evolutionary ecology of parasitic birds. I followed this with short postdocs at Oxford and the Australian National University, also working on avian ecology and evolution. In 2014 I took up a University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the evolutionary ecology and genetics of bees. In mid-2018 I began a Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences. In 2022 I began as an ARC DECRA Fellow researching the genetics and ecology of native Australian bees.

Research interests

I use experimental fieldwork, molecular biology and mathematical models to investigate the evolution and behavioural ecology of animals. My key study systems are bees and birds. Current research interests include:

Population genetics, behaviour and ecology of Australian stingless bees, including in the context of their role as pollinators
Evolution, behaviour and population genetics of invasive social insects
Genetics and evolution of sex determination in social insects
Coevolution of brood parasitic birds and their hosts

Teaching and supervision

Teaching (2022)

Zoology (BIOL2021)
Animal Behaviour (BIOL3046)
Life & Evolution (BIOL1006)

Check the BEE Lab website for details of other student projects including Honours students.

Awards and honours

Discovery Early Career Reseacher Award, 2022
University of Sydney, Faculty of Science Re-Entry Fellowship 2018
University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2014-2018
Clarendon Postgraduate Scholrship, University of Oxford, 2008-2012

Themes

Ecology and Evolution, Genetics and genomics, Wildlife and conservation

Current research students

Project title	Research student
The evolutionary ecology of generalist pollination systems in Australian native flora	Georgie BRENNAN
The Beneficial Relationship Between Fungi and Australian Stingless Bees	Jasmin LI

Publications

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Book Chapters

De Marsico, M., Fiorini, V., Tuero, D., Gloag, R., Ursino, C., Reboreda, J. (2017). Parasite Adaptations During the Nestling and Fledgling Stages. In Manuel Soler (Eds.), Avian Brood Parasitism: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution and Coevolution, (pp. 557-574). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]
Reboreda, J., Fiorini, V., De Marsico, M., Gloag, R., Scardamaglia, R. (2017). Parasitic Behaviour of Interspecific Brood Parasitic Females. In Manuel Soler (Eds.), Avian Brood Parasitism: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution and Coevolution, (pp. 325-342). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]

Journals

Dogantzis, K., Zayed, A., Gloag, R., Raffiudin, R., Putra, R., Shaleh, I., Conflitti, I., Pepinelli, M., Roberts, J., Holmes, M., Oldroyd, B. (2024). Post-invasion selection acts on standing genetic variation despite a severe founding bottleneck. Current Biology. [More Information]
Hagan, T., Lim, J., Gloag, R. (2023). Drones Do Not Drift between Nests in a Wild Population of Apis cerana. Insects, 14(4). [More Information]
Forster, C., Mourmourakis, F., Hochuli, D., White, T., Latty, T., Gloag, R. (2023). Flower choice by the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria is not influenced by colour-similarity to a higher-reward flower in the same patch. Apidologie, 54(2). [More Information]
Nacko, S., Hall, M., Gloag, R., Lynch, K., Spooner-Hart, R., Cook, J., Riegler, M. (2023). Heat stress survival and thermal tolerance of Australian stingless bees. Journal of Thermal Biology, 117. [More Information]
Forster, C., Middleton, E., Gloag, R., Hochuli, D., White, T., Latty, T. (2023). Impact of empty flowers on foraging choice and movement within floral patches by the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Insectes Sociaux, 70(4), 413-422. [More Information]
Noh, H., Gloag, R., Langmore, N. (2023). Multiple parasitism promotes facultative host acceptance of cuckoo eggs and rejection of cuckoo chicks. Animal Behaviour, 202, 1-8. [More Information]
Koludarov, I., Velasque, M., Senoner, T., Timm, T., Greve, C., Hamadou, A., Gupta, D., Lochnit, G., Heinzinger, M., Vilcinskas, A., Gloag, R., et al (2023). Prevalent bee venom genes evolved before the aculeate stinger and eusociality. BMC Biology, 21(1). [More Information]
Francoso, E., Zuntini, A., Ricardo, P., Santos, P., de Souza Araujo, N., Silva, J., Goncalves, L., Brito, R., Gloag, R., Taylor, B., Oldroyd, B., et al (2023). Rapid evolution, rearrangements and whole mitogenome duplication in the Australian stingless bees Tetragonula (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A steppingstone towards understanding mitochondrial function and evolution. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 242. [More Information]
Grace, P., Bartels, L., Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Law, G., Heard, T., Chapman, N., Buchmann, G., Lim, J., Gloag, R. (2023). Shifting range in a stingless bee leads to pre-mating reproductive interference between species. Conservation Genetics. [More Information]
Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Kendall, L., Alves, D., Lequerica Tamara, M., Heard, T., Latty, T., Gloag, R. (2023). Stingless bee floral visitation in the global tropics and subtropics. Global Ecology and Conservation, 43. [More Information]
Chapman, N., Colin, T., Cook, J., Da Silva, C., Gloag, R., Hogendoorn, K., Howard, S., Remnant, E., Roberts, J., Tierney, S., et al (2023). The final frontier: ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a global parasite invasion. Biology Letters, 19(5), 1-7. [More Information]
Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., dos Santos, C., Otesbelgue, A., Menezes, C., van Veen, J., Blochtein, B., Gloag, R., Heard, T., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V., Alves, D. (2023). The queens of the stingless bees: from egg to adult. Insectes Sociaux, 70(1), 43-57. [More Information]
Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Hajjar, R., Colin, T., Buchmann, G., Latty, T., Gloag, R. (2023). Virgin queen behaviour and controlled mating in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Meliponini). Insectes Sociaux, 70(1), 17-27. [More Information]
Sun, Z., Chapman, N., Raffiudin, R., Putra, R., Roberts, J., Widjaya, C., Buchmann, G., Holmes, M., Gloag, R. (2022). Loss of mitochondrial diversity in invasive populations of Asian honey bees, Apis cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae), in the Austral-Pacific. Austral Entomology, 61, 97-103. [More Information]
Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Bulle Bueno, B., Buchmann, G., Latty, T., Oldroyd, B., Hosoi, A., Gloag, R. (2022). Males Are Capable of Long-Distance Dispersal in a Social Bee. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 1-11. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Smith, J., Stephens, R., Heard, T., Beekman, M. (2021). Australian stingless bees detect odours left at food sources by nestmates, conspecifics and honey bees. Insectes Sociaux, 68, 151-159. [More Information]
Hagan, T., Gloag, R. (2021). Founder effects on sex determination systems in invasive social insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 46, 31-38. [More Information]
Noh, H., Jacomb, F., Gloag, R., Langmore, N. (2021). Frontline defences against cuckoo parasitism in the large-billed gerygones. Animal Behaviour, 174, 51-61. [More Information]
Ding, G., Hasselmann, M., Huang, J., Roberts, J., Oldroyd, B., Gloag, R. (2021). Global allele polymorphism indicates a high rate of allele genesis at a locus under balancing selection. Heredity, 126(1), 163-177. [More Information]
Noh, H., Gloag, R., Leitao, A., Langmore, N. (2021). Imperfect mimicry of host begging calls by a brood parasitic cuckoo: a cue for nestling rejection by hosts? Current Zoology, 67(6), 665-674. [More Information]
Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Gloag, R., Latty, T., Ronai, I. (2020). Irreversible sterility of workers and high-volume egg production by queens in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223, jeb230599. [More Information]
Ellison, K., Fiorini, V., Gloag, R., Sealy, S. (2020). Video recordings of Brown-headed (Molothrus ater) and Shiny (M. bonariensis) cowbirds reveal oviposition from an elevated position: Implications for host-parasite coevolution. Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 131(4), 789-795. [More Information]
Bortolato, T., Gloag, R., Reboreda, J., Fiorini, V. (2019). Size matters: shiny cowbirds secure more food than host nestmates thanks to their larger size, not signal exaggeration. Animal Behaviour, 157, 201-207. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Beekman, M. (2019). The brood parasite's guide to inclusive fitness theory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1769), 1-7. [More Information]
Thorogood, R., Spottiswoode, C., Portugal, S., Gloag, R. (2019). The coevolutionary biology of brood parasitism: a call for integration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1769), 1-7. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Remnant, E., Oldroyd, B. (2019). The frequency of thelytokous parthenogenesis in European-derived Apis mellifera virgin queens. Apidologie, 50(3), 295-303. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Christie, J., Ding, G., Stephens, R., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B. (2019). Workers' sons rescue genetic diversity at the sex locus in an invasive honey bee population. Molecular Ecology, 28(7), 1585-1592. [More Information]
Ursino, C., Gloag, R., Reboreda, J., De Marsico, M. (2018). Host provisioning behavior favors mimetic begging calls in a brood-parasitic cowbird. Behavioral Ecology, 29(2), 328-332. [More Information]
Noh, H., Gloag, R., Langmore, N. (2018). True recognition of nestlings by hosts selects for mimetic cuckoo chicks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1880), 1-10. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Ding, G., Christie, J., Buchmann, G., Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B. (2017). An invasive social insect overcomes genetic load at the sex locus. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(1), 1-6. [More Information]
Cole-Clark, M., Barton, D., Allsopp, M., Beekman, M., Gloag, R., Wossler, T., Ronai, I., Smith, N., Reid, R., Oldroyd, B. (2017). Cytogenetic basis of thelytoky in Apis mellifera capensis. Apidologie, 48(5), 623-634. [More Information]
Ding, G., Xu, H., Oldroyd, B., Gloag, R. (2017). Extreme polyandry aids the establishment of invasive populations of a social insect. Heredity, 119(5), 381-387. [More Information]
Smith, J., Heard, T., Beekman, M., Gloag, R. (2017). Flight range of the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Austral Entomology, 56(1), 50-53. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Tan, K., Wang, Y., Song, W., Luo, W., Buchmann, G., Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B. (2017). No evidence of queen thelytoky following interspecific crosses of the honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera. Insectes Sociaux, 64, 241-246. [More Information]
Stephens, R., Beekman, M., Gloag, R. (2017). The upside of recognition error? Artificially aggregated colonies of the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria tolerate high rates of worker drift. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121(2), 258-266. [More Information]
Tuero, D., Gloag, R., Reboreda, J. (2016). Nest environment modulates begging behavior of a generalist brood parasite. Behavioral Ecology, 27(1), 204-210. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Keller, L., Langmore, N. (2014). Cryptic cuckoo eggs hide from competing cuckoos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1792), 1-7. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Fiorini, V., Reboreda, J., Kacelnik, A. (2014). Shiny cowbirds share foster mothers but not true mothers in multiply parasitized mockingbird nests. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(4), 681-689. [More Information]
Fiorini, V., Gloag, R., Kacelnik, A., Reboreda, J. (2014). Strategic egg destruction by brood-parasitic cowbirds? Animal Behaviour, 93, 229-253. [More Information]
De Marsico, M., Gloag, R., Ursino, C., Reboreda, J. (2013). A novel method of rejection of brood parasitic eggs reduces parasitism intensity in a cowbird host. Biology Letters, 92(3), 20130076. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Kacelnik, A. (2013). Host manipulation via begging call structure in the brood-parasitic shiny cowbird. Animal Behaviour, 86(1), 101-109. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Fiorini, V., Reboreda, J., Kacelnik, A. (2013). The wages of violence: mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds. Animal Behaviour, 86(5), 1023-1029. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Fiorini, V., Reboreda, J., Kacelnik, A. (2012). Brood parasite eggs enhance egg survivorship in a multiply parasitized host. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1734), 1831-1839. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Tuero, D., Fiorini, V., Reboreda, J., Kacelnik, A. (2011). The economics of nestmate killing in avian brood parasites: a provisions trade-off. Behavioural Ecology, 23(1), 132-140. [More Information]
Oxley, P., Hinhumpatch, P., Gloag, R., Oldroyd, B. (2010). Genetic Evaluation of a Novel System for Controlled Mating of the Honeybee, Apis mellifera. Journal of Heredity, 101(3), 334-338. [More Information]
Allsopp, M., Beekman, M., Gloag, R., Oldroyd, B. (2010). Maternity of replacement queens in the thelytokous Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64, 567-574. [More Information]
Lo, N., Gloag, R., Anderson, D., Oldroyd, B. (2009). A molecular phylogeny of the genus Apis suggests that the Giant Honey Bee of the Philippines, A. breviligula Maa, and the Plains Honey Bee of southern India, A. indica Fabricius, are valid species. Systematic Entomology, Online, 1-8. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Shaw, S., Burwell, C. (2009). A new species of Syntretus Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae), a parasitoid of the stingless bee Trigona carbonaria Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae). Australian Journal of Entomology, 48, 8-14. [More Information]
Chapman, N., Nanork, P., Gloag, R., Wattanachaiyingcharoen, W., Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B. (2009). Queenless colonies of the Asian red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea) are infiltrated by workers from other queenless colonies. Behavioral Ecology, 20(4), 817-820. [More Information]
Beekman, M., Gloag, R., Even, N., Wattanachaiyingchareon, W., Oldroyd, B. (2008). Dance precision of Apis florea - clues to the evolution of the honeybee dance language? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(8), 1259-1265. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Heard, T., Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B. (2008). Nest defence in a stingless bee: What causes fighting swarms in Trigona carbonaria (Hymenoptera, Meliponini)? Insectes Sociaux, 55, 387-391. [More Information]
Oldroyd, B., Gloag, R., Even, N., Wattanachaiyingcharoen, W., Beekman, M. (2008). Nest site selection in the open-nesting honeybee Apis florea. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(10), 1643-1653. [More Information]
Oldroyd, B., Allsopp, M., Gloag, R., Lim, J., Jordan, L., Beekman, M. (2008). Thelytokous Parthenogenesis in Unmated Queen Honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis): Central Fusion and High Recombination Rates. Genetics, 180, 359-366. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Ritchie, R., Chen, M., Larkum, A., Quinnell, R. (2007). Chromatic photoacclimation, photosynthetic electron transport and oxygen evolution in the Chlorophyll d-containing oxyphotobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1767 (2), 127-135. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Beekman, M., Heard, T., Oldroyd, B. (2007). No worker reproduction in the Australian stingless bee Trigona carbonaria Smith (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Insectes Sociaux, 54(4), 412-417. [More Information]
Nanork, P., Chapman, N., Wongsiri, S., Lim, J., Gloag, R., Oldroyd, B. (2007). Social parasitism by workers in queenless and queenright Apis cerana colonies. Molecular Ecology, 16(5), 1107-1114. [More Information]

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2024

Dogantzis, K., Zayed, A., Gloag, R., Raffiudin, R., Putra, R., Shaleh, I., Conflitti, I., Pepinelli, M., Roberts, J., Holmes, M., Oldroyd, B. (2024). Post-invasion selection acts on standing genetic variation despite a severe founding bottleneck. Current Biology. [More Information]

2023

Hagan, T., Lim, J., Gloag, R. (2023). Drones Do Not Drift between Nests in a Wild Population of Apis cerana. Insects, 14(4). [More Information]
Forster, C., Mourmourakis, F., Hochuli, D., White, T., Latty, T., Gloag, R. (2023). Flower choice by the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria is not influenced by colour-similarity to a higher-reward flower in the same patch. Apidologie, 54(2). [More Information]
Nacko, S., Hall, M., Gloag, R., Lynch, K., Spooner-Hart, R., Cook, J., Riegler, M. (2023). Heat stress survival and thermal tolerance of Australian stingless bees. Journal of Thermal Biology, 117. [More Information]
Forster, C., Middleton, E., Gloag, R., Hochuli, D., White, T., Latty, T. (2023). Impact of empty flowers on foraging choice and movement within floral patches by the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Insectes Sociaux, 70(4), 413-422. [More Information]
Noh, H., Gloag, R., Langmore, N. (2023). Multiple parasitism promotes facultative host acceptance of cuckoo eggs and rejection of cuckoo chicks. Animal Behaviour, 202, 1-8. [More Information]
Koludarov, I., Velasque, M., Senoner, T., Timm, T., Greve, C., Hamadou, A., Gupta, D., Lochnit, G., Heinzinger, M., Vilcinskas, A., Gloag, R., et al (2023). Prevalent bee venom genes evolved before the aculeate stinger and eusociality. BMC Biology, 21(1). [More Information]
Francoso, E., Zuntini, A., Ricardo, P., Santos, P., de Souza Araujo, N., Silva, J., Goncalves, L., Brito, R., Gloag, R., Taylor, B., Oldroyd, B., et al (2023). Rapid evolution, rearrangements and whole mitogenome duplication in the Australian stingless bees Tetragonula (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A steppingstone towards understanding mitochondrial function and evolution. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 242. [More Information]
Grace, P., Bartels, L., Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Law, G., Heard, T., Chapman, N., Buchmann, G., Lim, J., Gloag, R. (2023). Shifting range in a stingless bee leads to pre-mating reproductive interference between species. Conservation Genetics. [More Information]
Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Kendall, L., Alves, D., Lequerica Tamara, M., Heard, T., Latty, T., Gloag, R. (2023). Stingless bee floral visitation in the global tropics and subtropics. Global Ecology and Conservation, 43. [More Information]
Chapman, N., Colin, T., Cook, J., Da Silva, C., Gloag, R., Hogendoorn, K., Howard, S., Remnant, E., Roberts, J., Tierney, S., et al (2023). The final frontier: ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a global parasite invasion. Biology Letters, 19(5), 1-7. [More Information]
Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., dos Santos, C., Otesbelgue, A., Menezes, C., van Veen, J., Blochtein, B., Gloag, R., Heard, T., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V., Alves, D. (2023). The queens of the stingless bees: from egg to adult. Insectes Sociaux, 70(1), 43-57. [More Information]
Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Hajjar, R., Colin, T., Buchmann, G., Latty, T., Gloag, R. (2023). Virgin queen behaviour and controlled mating in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Meliponini). Insectes Sociaux, 70(1), 17-27. [More Information]

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2022

Sun, Z., Chapman, N., Raffiudin, R., Putra, R., Roberts, J., Widjaya, C., Buchmann, G., Holmes, M., Gloag, R. (2022). Loss of mitochondrial diversity in invasive populations of Asian honey bees, Apis cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae), in the Austral-Pacific. Austral Entomology, 61, 97-103. [More Information]
Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Bulle Bueno, B., Buchmann, G., Latty, T., Oldroyd, B., Hosoi, A., Gloag, R. (2022). Males Are Capable of Long-Distance Dispersal in a Social Bee. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 1-11. [More Information]

2021

Gloag, R., Smith, J., Stephens, R., Heard, T., Beekman, M. (2021). Australian stingless bees detect odours left at food sources by nestmates, conspecifics and honey bees. Insectes Sociaux, 68, 151-159. [More Information]
Hagan, T., Gloag, R. (2021). Founder effects on sex determination systems in invasive social insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 46, 31-38. [More Information]
Noh, H., Jacomb, F., Gloag, R., Langmore, N. (2021). Frontline defences against cuckoo parasitism in the large-billed gerygones. Animal Behaviour, 174, 51-61. [More Information]
Ding, G., Hasselmann, M., Huang, J., Roberts, J., Oldroyd, B., Gloag, R. (2021). Global allele polymorphism indicates a high rate of allele genesis at a locus under balancing selection. Heredity, 126(1), 163-177. [More Information]
Noh, H., Gloag, R., Leitao, A., Langmore, N. (2021). Imperfect mimicry of host begging calls by a brood parasitic cuckoo: a cue for nestling rejection by hosts? Current Zoology, 67(6), 665-674. [More Information]

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2020

Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Gloag, R., Latty, T., Ronai, I. (2020). Irreversible sterility of workers and high-volume egg production by queens in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223, jeb230599. [More Information]
Ellison, K., Fiorini, V., Gloag, R., Sealy, S. (2020). Video recordings of Brown-headed (Molothrus ater) and Shiny (M. bonariensis) cowbirds reveal oviposition from an elevated position: Implications for host-parasite coevolution. Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 131(4), 789-795. [More Information]

2019

Bortolato, T., Gloag, R., Reboreda, J., Fiorini, V. (2019). Size matters: shiny cowbirds secure more food than host nestmates thanks to their larger size, not signal exaggeration. Animal Behaviour, 157, 201-207. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Beekman, M. (2019). The brood parasite's guide to inclusive fitness theory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1769), 1-7. [More Information]
Thorogood, R., Spottiswoode, C., Portugal, S., Gloag, R. (2019). The coevolutionary biology of brood parasitism: a call for integration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1769), 1-7. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Remnant, E., Oldroyd, B. (2019). The frequency of thelytokous parthenogenesis in European-derived Apis mellifera virgin queens. Apidologie, 50(3), 295-303. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Christie, J., Ding, G., Stephens, R., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B. (2019). Workers' sons rescue genetic diversity at the sex locus in an invasive honey bee population. Molecular Ecology, 28(7), 1585-1592. [More Information]

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2018

Ursino, C., Gloag, R., Reboreda, J., De Marsico, M. (2018). Host provisioning behavior favors mimetic begging calls in a brood-parasitic cowbird. Behavioral Ecology, 29(2), 328-332. [More Information]
Noh, H., Gloag, R., Langmore, N. (2018). True recognition of nestlings by hosts selects for mimetic cuckoo chicks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1880), 1-10. [More Information]

2017

Gloag, R., Ding, G., Christie, J., Buchmann, G., Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B. (2017). An invasive social insect overcomes genetic load at the sex locus. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(1), 1-6. [More Information]
Cole-Clark, M., Barton, D., Allsopp, M., Beekman, M., Gloag, R., Wossler, T., Ronai, I., Smith, N., Reid, R., Oldroyd, B. (2017). Cytogenetic basis of thelytoky in Apis mellifera capensis. Apidologie, 48(5), 623-634. [More Information]
Ding, G., Xu, H., Oldroyd, B., Gloag, R. (2017). Extreme polyandry aids the establishment of invasive populations of a social insect. Heredity, 119(5), 381-387. [More Information]
Smith, J., Heard, T., Beekman, M., Gloag, R. (2017). Flight range of the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Austral Entomology, 56(1), 50-53. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Tan, K., Wang, Y., Song, W., Luo, W., Buchmann, G., Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B. (2017). No evidence of queen thelytoky following interspecific crosses of the honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera. Insectes Sociaux, 64, 241-246. [More Information]
De Marsico, M., Fiorini, V., Tuero, D., Gloag, R., Ursino, C., Reboreda, J. (2017). Parasite Adaptations During the Nestling and Fledgling Stages. In Manuel Soler (Eds.), Avian Brood Parasitism: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution and Coevolution, (pp. 557-574). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]
Reboreda, J., Fiorini, V., De Marsico, M., Gloag, R., Scardamaglia, R. (2017). Parasitic Behaviour of Interspecific Brood Parasitic Females. In Manuel Soler (Eds.), Avian Brood Parasitism: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution and Coevolution, (pp. 325-342). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]
Stephens, R., Beekman, M., Gloag, R. (2017). The upside of recognition error? Artificially aggregated colonies of the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria tolerate high rates of worker drift. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121(2), 258-266. [More Information]

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2016

Tuero, D., Gloag, R., Reboreda, J. (2016). Nest environment modulates begging behavior of a generalist brood parasite. Behavioral Ecology, 27(1), 204-210. [More Information]

2014

Gloag, R., Keller, L., Langmore, N. (2014). Cryptic cuckoo eggs hide from competing cuckoos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1792), 1-7. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Fiorini, V., Reboreda, J., Kacelnik, A. (2014). Shiny cowbirds share foster mothers but not true mothers in multiply parasitized mockingbird nests. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(4), 681-689. [More Information]
Fiorini, V., Gloag, R., Kacelnik, A., Reboreda, J. (2014). Strategic egg destruction by brood-parasitic cowbirds? Animal Behaviour, 93, 229-253. [More Information]

2013

De Marsico, M., Gloag, R., Ursino, C., Reboreda, J. (2013). A novel method of rejection of brood parasitic eggs reduces parasitism intensity in a cowbird host. Biology Letters, 92(3), 20130076. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Kacelnik, A. (2013). Host manipulation via begging call structure in the brood-parasitic shiny cowbird. Animal Behaviour, 86(1), 101-109. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Fiorini, V., Reboreda, J., Kacelnik, A. (2013). The wages of violence: mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds. Animal Behaviour, 86(5), 1023-1029. [More Information]

2012

Gloag, R., Fiorini, V., Reboreda, J., Kacelnik, A. (2012). Brood parasite eggs enhance egg survivorship in a multiply parasitized host. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1734), 1831-1839. [More Information]

2011

Gloag, R., Tuero, D., Fiorini, V., Reboreda, J., Kacelnik, A. (2011). The economics of nestmate killing in avian brood parasites: a provisions trade-off. Behavioural Ecology, 23(1), 132-140. [More Information]

2010

Oxley, P., Hinhumpatch, P., Gloag, R., Oldroyd, B. (2010). Genetic Evaluation of a Novel System for Controlled Mating of the Honeybee, Apis mellifera. Journal of Heredity, 101(3), 334-338. [More Information]
Allsopp, M., Beekman, M., Gloag, R., Oldroyd, B. (2010). Maternity of replacement queens in the thelytokous Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64, 567-574. [More Information]

2009

Lo, N., Gloag, R., Anderson, D., Oldroyd, B. (2009). A molecular phylogeny of the genus Apis suggests that the Giant Honey Bee of the Philippines, A. breviligula Maa, and the Plains Honey Bee of southern India, A. indica Fabricius, are valid species. Systematic Entomology, Online, 1-8. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Shaw, S., Burwell, C. (2009). A new species of Syntretus Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae), a parasitoid of the stingless bee Trigona carbonaria Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae). Australian Journal of Entomology, 48, 8-14. [More Information]
Chapman, N., Nanork, P., Gloag, R., Wattanachaiyingcharoen, W., Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B. (2009). Queenless colonies of the Asian red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea) are infiltrated by workers from other queenless colonies. Behavioral Ecology, 20(4), 817-820. [More Information]

2008

Beekman, M., Gloag, R., Even, N., Wattanachaiyingchareon, W., Oldroyd, B. (2008). Dance precision of Apis florea - clues to the evolution of the honeybee dance language? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(8), 1259-1265. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Heard, T., Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B. (2008). Nest defence in a stingless bee: What causes fighting swarms in Trigona carbonaria (Hymenoptera, Meliponini)? Insectes Sociaux, 55, 387-391. [More Information]
Oldroyd, B., Gloag, R., Even, N., Wattanachaiyingcharoen, W., Beekman, M. (2008). Nest site selection in the open-nesting honeybee Apis florea. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(10), 1643-1653. [More Information]
Oldroyd, B., Allsopp, M., Gloag, R., Lim, J., Jordan, L., Beekman, M. (2008). Thelytokous Parthenogenesis in Unmated Queen Honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis): Central Fusion and High Recombination Rates. Genetics, 180, 359-366. [More Information]

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2007

Gloag, R., Ritchie, R., Chen, M., Larkum, A., Quinnell, R. (2007). Chromatic photoacclimation, photosynthetic electron transport and oxygen evolution in the Chlorophyll d-containing oxyphotobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1767 (2), 127-135. [More Information]
Gloag, R., Beekman, M., Heard, T., Oldroyd, B. (2007). No worker reproduction in the Australian stingless bee Trigona carbonaria Smith (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Insectes Sociaux, 54(4), 412-417. [More Information]
Nanork, P., Chapman, N., Wongsiri, S., Lim, J., Gloag, R., Oldroyd, B. (2007). Social parasitism by workers in queenless and queenright Apis cerana colonies. Molecular Ecology, 16(5), 1107-1114. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2024

Insect-microbe symbiosis as a driver of speciation, Gloag R, Shanahan E, Fernandes K, School of Life and Environmental Sciences (SOLES)/Strategic Partnership Seeding Grant

2023

Ros Suzanne Gloag - Robinson Fellowship - TBA, Gloag R, DVC Research/Robinson Award

2022

Mito-nuclear coevolution as an engine of biodiversity, Gloag R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

2019

Predicting adaptive responses to climate change in Australian native bees, Kellermann V, Gloag R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2017

Population biology of a critical pollinator: the Asian honey bee in Indonesia, Gloag R, Oldroyd B, University of Sydney/Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

2016

Density and distribution of Australia's sugarbag bees, Gloag R, Oldroyd B, Australia & Pacific Science Foundation/Research Project Grant

2014

Asexual reproduction and social parasitism in honey bee invaders, Oldroyd B, Gloag R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
Asexual reproduction and social parasitism in honey bee invaders, Gloag R, Beekman M, DVC Research/Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme

In the media

BBC CrowdScience Podcast, December 2021.

Nature News and Views, "Evolution: Insect invasions and natural selection" 539: 500–502, November 24, 2016.

The Scientist, "How an invasive bee managed to thrive in Australia", January 1, 2017.

Nature Behind the Paper: "Honey bee invaders show us balancing selection in action" November 2016.

The Conversation, "Cuckoos beat competition by laying cryptic eggs", August 13, 2014

The New York Times, “In a Bird’s Nest, An Animal Behaviour Puzzle” December 10, 2013

New Scientist, "To kill a mockingbird? No, to parasitise it." December 7, 2011

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