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2021

Chapman N & Frost E. Plan Bee Breeding Manual. AgriFutures Australia 21-089, Wagga Wagga, Australia

Chapman NC & Frost EA (2021) Plan Bee: Beekeeper and bee breeder surveys 2020. AgriFutures Australia 21-051, Wagga Wagga, Australia

Frost EA, Chapman NC, Banks RG & Hermesch S. Breeding for improved fertility of honey bees. Animal Production Science

Utaipanon P, Schaerf TM, Chapman NC, Holmes MJ & Oldroyd BP. Using trapped drones to assess the density of honey bee colonies - a simulation and empirical study to evaluate the accuracy of the method. Ecological Entomology 46: 128-137

Banks RG, Frost E, Chapman N, Boerner V, Walkom S & Ferdosi M. Progressing implementation of genetic selection in Australian honey bees. AgriFutures Australia Publication 21-087, Wagga Wagga, Australia

2020

Chapman NC & Oldroyd BP. Report to Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service on the effects of honey bees on native flora and fauna. Sydney University, Sydney

2019

Utaipanon P, Holmes MJ, Chapman NC & Oldroyd BP. Estimating the density of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies using trapped drones: area sampled and drone mating flight distance. Apidologie 50: 578-592

Smith NMA, Wade C, Allsopp MH, Chapman NC, Harpur BA, Zayed A, Yagound B, Engelstädter J & Oldroyd BP. Strikingly high levels of heterozygosity despite 20 years of inbreeding in a clonal honey bee. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32: 144-152

Chapman NC, Sheng J, Lim J, Malfroy SF, Harpur BA, Zayed A, Allsopp BH, Rinderer TE, Roberts JMK, Remnant EJ & Oldroyd BP. Genetic origins of honeybees (Apis mellifera) on Kangaroo Island and Norfolk Island (Australia) and the Kingdom of Tonga. Apidologie 50: 28-39

Chapman NC, Dos Santos Cocenza R, Blanchard B, Nguyen LM, Buchmann G & Oldroyd BP. Genetic diversity in the progeny of commercial Australian queen honey bees (Apis mellifera) produced in autumn and early spring. Journal of Economic Entomology 112: 33-39

2018

Chapman NC, Byatt M, Cocenza RDS, Nguyen LM, Heard TA, Latty T & Oldroyd BP. Anthropogenic hive movements are changing the genetic structure of a stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) population along the east coast of Australia. Conservation Genetics 19: 619-627

Chapman NC & Oldroyd BP. Artificial insemination of honey bee queens: how many mates is enough? AgriFutures Australia Publication 18-076, Canberra, Australia

2017

Yagound B, Duncan M, Chapman N & Oldroyd B. Subfamily-dependent alternative reproductive strategies in worker honey bees. Molecular Ecology 26: 6938-6947

Chapman NC, Siriwat P, Howie J, Towlson A, Bellamy L, Fowler K & Pomiankowski A. The complexity of mating decisions in stalk-eyed flies. Ecology and Evolution 7: 6659-6668

Chapman NC, Bourgeois AL, Beaman LD, Lim J, Harpur BA, Zayed A, Allsopp MH, Rinderer TE & Oldroyd BP. An abbreviated SNP panel for ancestry assignment of honeybees (Apis mellifera). Apidologie 48: 776-783

Kilaso M, Remnant E, Chapman NC, Oldroyd B & Chanchao C. DNA methylation of Kr-h1 is involved in regulating ovary activation in worker honeybees (Apis mellifera). Insectes Sociaux 64: 87-94

Kilaso M, Chapman NC, Remnant EJ, Chanchao C & Oldroyd BP. No evidence that DNA methylation is associated with the regulation of fertility in the adult honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker ovary. Austral Entomology 56: 115-121

2016

Malfroy SF, Roberts JMK, Perrone S, Maynard G & Chapman NC. Pest and disease survey of the isolated Norfolk Island honey bee (Apis mellifera) population. Journal of Apicultural Research 55: 202-211

Byatt M, Chapman NC, Latty T & Oldroyd BP. Genetic consequences of the anthropogenic movement of social bees. Insectes Sociaux 63:15-24

Chapman NC, Harpur B, Lim J, Rinderer TE, Allsopp MH, Zayed A & Oldroyd BP. Hybrid origins of Australian honeybees (Apis mellifera). Apidologie 47:26-34

Chapman NC & Oldroyd BP. A genetic test for Africanised honey bees. Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication 16/023, Canberra, Australia

2015

Harpur BA, Chapman NC, Krimus L, Maciukiewicz P, Sandhu V, Sood K, Lim J, Rinderer TE, Allsopp MH, Oldroyd BP & Zayed A. Assessing patterns of admixture and ancestry in Canadian honey bees. Insectes Sociaux 62: 479-489

Chapman NC, Harpur B, Lim J, Rinderer TE, Allsopp MH, Zayed A & Oldroyd BP. A SNP test to identify Africanized honeybees via proportion of ‘African’ ancestry. Molecular Ecology Resources 15: 1346-1355

Chapman NC, Beekman M, Allsopp MH, Rinderer TE, Lim J, Oxley PR & Oldroyd BP. Inheritance of thelytoky in the honey bee Apis mellifera capensis. Heredity 114: 584-592

2013

Bellamy L, Chapman N, Fowler K & Pomiankowski A. Sexual traits are sensitive to genetic stress and predict extinction risk in the stalk-eyed fly, Diasemopsis meigenii. Evolution 67: 2662-2673

2010

Chapman NC, Higgs JS, Wattanachaiyingcharoen W, Beekman M & Oldroyd BP. Worker reproductive parasitism in naturally orphaned colonies of the Asian red dwarf honey bee, Apis florea. Insectes Sociaux 57: 163-167

Chapman NC, Beekman M & Oldroyd BP. Worker reproductive parasitism and drift in the Western honeybee Apis mellifera. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 64: 419-427

2009

Chapman NC, Nanork P, Gloag, RS, Wattanachaiyingcharoen W, Beekman M & Oldroyd BP. Queenless honey bee (Apis florea) colonies are infiltrated by workers from other queenless nests. Behavioral Ecology 20: 817-820

Chapman NC, Makinson J, Beekman M & Oldroyd BP. Honey bee (Apis mellifera) guards use adaptive acceptance thresholds to limit worker reproductive parasitism. Animal Behaviour 78: 1205-1211

Chapman NC, Beekman M & Oldroyd BP. Several workers lay eggs in the same brood cell in queenless honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. Insectes Sociaux 56: 103-105

2008

Chapman NC, Nanork P, Reddy MS, Bhat NS, Beekman M & Oldroyd BP. Nestmate recognition by guards of the Asian hive bee Apis cerana. Insectes Sociaux 55: 382-386

Chapman NC, Lim J and Oldroyd BP. Population genetics of commercial and feral honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Western Australia. Journal of Economic Entomology 101: 272-277

2007

Chapman NC, Oldroyd BP & Hughes WHO. Differential responses of honey bee (Apis mellifera) patrilines to changes in stimuli for the generalist tasks of nursing and foraging. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 1185-1194

Nanork P, Chapman NC, Wongsiri S, Lim J, Gloag R & Oldroyd BP. Social parasitism by workers in queenless and queenright Apis cerana colonies. Molecular Ecology 16: 1107-1114

2006

Oldroyd BP, Reddy MS, Chapman NC, Thompson GJ & Beekman M. Evidence for reproductive isolation between two colour morphs of cavity nesting honey bees (Apis) in south India. Insectes Sociaux 53: 428-434

2005

Nanork P, Parr J, Chapman NC, Wongsiri S & Oldroyd BP. Asian honeybees parasitize the future dead. Nature 437: 829

Chapman NC & Oldroyd BP. Mating for queen quality. AgriFutures Australia Publication 18-077, Canberra, Australia

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