Alison McAfee

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 871 citations indexed

About

Alison McAfee is a scholar working on Insect Science, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison McAfee has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 871 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Insect Science, 32 papers in Genetics and 31 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Alison McAfee's work include Insect and Pesticide Research (33 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (32 papers) and Plant and animal studies (31 papers). Alison McAfee is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Pesticide Research (33 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (32 papers) and Plant and animal studies (31 papers). Alison McAfee collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Sweden. Alison McAfee's co-authors include Leonard J. Foster, Fanny Mondet, David R. Tarpy, Maéva Angélique Techer, Panuwan Chantawannakul, Joachim R. de Miranda, Vienna Kowallik, Kirsten S. Traynor, Melissa A. Y. Oddie and Abigail Chapman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alison McAfee

31 papers receiving 860 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Varroa destructor: A Complex Parasite, Crippling Honey Bees Worldwide

2020 311 citations Fanny Mondet, Alison McAfee et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison McAfee Canada	14	819	718	677	66	30	34	871
Helge Schlüns Australia	12	561 0.7×	502 0.7×	523 0.8×	50 0.8×	18 0.6×	19	673
J. Trouiller France	11	588 0.7×	516 0.7×	502 0.7×	57 0.9×	29 1.0×	13	625
Christine Y.S. Peng United States	12	637 0.8×	457 0.6×	499 0.7×	128 1.9×	28 0.9×	14	723
Xu Jiang He China	12	414 0.5×	365 0.5×	351 0.5×	80 1.2×	21 0.7×	36	517
Ulrike Riessberger‐Gallé Austria	10	437 0.5×	343 0.5×	325 0.5×	38 0.6×	27 0.9×	11	480
Stefan Berg Germany	11	1.1k 1.3×	992 1.4×	1.0k 1.5×	62 0.9×	6 0.2×	19	1.2k
J.N.M. Calis Netherlands	18	738 0.9×	659 0.9×	671 1.0×	34 0.5×	9 0.3×	48	769
Ayrton Vollet-Neto Brazil	14	474 0.6×	432 0.6×	473 0.7×	50 0.8×	15 0.5×	21	589
J. Beetsma Netherlands	17	765 0.9×	689 1.0×	670 1.0×	30 0.5×	27 0.9×	44	800
Jeffrey W. Harris United States	21	1.6k 2.0×	1.5k 2.1×	1.5k 2.2×	54 0.8×	107 3.6×	37	1.7k

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Chapman, Abigail, Alison McAfee, Armando Alcázar Magaña, et al.. (2025). Honey bee egg composition changes seasonally and after acute maternal virus infection. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 10418–10418. 1 indexed citations

McAfee, Alison, David R. Tarpy, & Leonard J. Foster. (2025). Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) beehives have no impact on honey bee (Apis mellifera) overwintering colony survival or detoxification enzyme expression. PLoS ONE. 20(4). e0318764–e0318764.

McAfee, Alison, Christopher W. Allen, M. Julien, et al.. (2025). Factors affecting heat resilience of drone honey bees (Apis mellifera) and their sperm. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0317672–e0317672. 1 indexed citations

Caesar, Lílian, Danny W. Rice, Alison McAfee, et al.. (2024). Metagenomic analysis of the honey bee queen microbiome reveals low bacterial diversity and Caudoviricetes phages. mSystems. 9(2). e0118223–e0118223. 5 indexed citations

McAfee, Alison, Nadejda Tsvetkov, Heather Higo, et al.. (2024). Higher prevalence of sacbrood virus in Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies after pollinating highbush blueberries. Journal of Economic Entomology. 117(4). 1324–1335. 2 indexed citations

McAfee, Alison, et al.. (2024). Conserved and Unique Protein Expression Patterns Across Reproductive Stage Transitions in Social Hymenopteran Queens. Molecular Ecology. 33(23). e17568–e17568. 2 indexed citations

Amiri, Esmaeil, Hossam F. Abou‐Shaara, & Alison McAfee. (2024). The effect of major abiotic stressors on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens and potential impact on their progeny. Apidologie. 56(1). 2 indexed citations

Foster, Leonard J., Nadejda Tsvetkov, & Alison McAfee. (2024). Mechanisms of Pathogen and Pesticide Resistance in Honey Bees. Physiology. 39(4). 193–207. 1 indexed citations

Frey, Connor, et al.. (2024). What proteomics has taught us about honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) health and disease. PROTEOMICS. 25(1-2). e2400075–e2400075. 1 indexed citations

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Chapman, Abigail, Alison McAfee, David R. Tarpy, et al.. (2024). Common viral infections inhibit egg laying in honey bee queens and are linked to premature supersedure. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 17285–17285. 7 indexed citations

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Fine, Julia D., Leonard J. Foster, & Alison McAfee. (2023). Indirect exposure to insect growth disruptors affects honey bee (Apis mellifera) reproductive behaviors and ovarian protein expression. PLoS ONE. 18(10). e0292176–e0292176. 7 indexed citations

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McAfee, Alison, et al.. (2022). Drone honey bees are disproportionately sensitive to abiotic stressors despite expressing high levels of stress response proteins. Communications Biology. 5(1). 141–141. 21 indexed citations

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McAfee, Alison, Abigail Chapman, Jeffery S. Pettis, Leonard J. Foster, & David R. Tarpy. (2021). Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera). Communications Biology. 4(1). 48–48. 38 indexed citations

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McAfee, Alison, et al.. (2021). Honey bee queen health is unaffected by contact exposure to pesticides commonly found in beeswax. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 15151–15151. 12 indexed citations

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Milone, Joseph, Frank D. L. Rinkevich, Alison McAfee, Leonard J. Foster, & David R. Tarpy. (2020). Differences in larval pesticide tolerance and esterase activity across honey bee (Apis mellifera) stocks. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 206. 111213–111213. 19 indexed citations

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Mondet, Fanny, Alexis Beaurepaire, Alison McAfee, et al.. (2020). Honey bee survival mechanisms against the parasite Varroa destructor: a systematic review of phenotypic and genomic research efforts. International Journal for Parasitology. 50(6-7). 433–447. 116 indexed citations

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McAfee, Alison, Abigail Chapman, Immacolata Iovinella, et al.. (2018). A death pheromone, oleic acid, triggers hygienic behavior in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5719–5719. 70 indexed citations

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McAfee, Alison, Queenie W. T. Chan, Jay D. Evans, & Leonard J. Foster. (2017). A Varroa destructor protein atlas reveals molecular underpinnings of developmental transitions and sexual differentiation. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 16(12). 2125–2137. 28 indexed citations

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McAfee, Alison, et al.. (2017). Odorant cues linked to social immunity induce lateralized antenna stimulation in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Scientific Reports. 7(1). 46171–46171. 21 indexed citations

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McAfee, Alison & Leonard J. Foster. (2016). Proteogenomics. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 585. 217–243. 5 indexed citations

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