Amro Zayed

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Amro Zayed is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Amro Zayed has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 69 papers in Genetics and 69 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Amro Zayed's work include Plant and animal studies (73 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (66 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (63 papers). Amro Zayed is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (73 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (66 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (63 papers). Amro Zayed collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Amro Zayed's co-authors include Laurence Packer, Brock A. Harpur, Clement F. Kent, Gene E. Robinson, Nadejda Tsvetkov, Charles W. Whitfield, Olivier Samson-Robert, Valérie Fournier, Jeffrey D. Lozier and Abdulaziz S. Alqarni and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Amro Zayed

73 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Chronic exposure to neonicotinoids reduces honey bee health near corn crops

2017 399 citations Nadejda Tsvetkov, Olivier Samson-Robert et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amro Zayed Canada	28	2.5k	2.3k	2.3k	267	137	77	3.0k
Jan Šobotník Czechia	29	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	2.1k 0.9×	249 0.9×	212 1.5×	117	2.7k
J. Kenneth Grace United States	28	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	480 1.8×	122 0.9×	138	2.6k
Sandra M. Rehan United States	33	2.7k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	451 1.7×	116 0.8×	115	3.0k
Fabio Sgolastra Italy	21	1.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	237 0.9×	48 0.4×	59	2.1k
Christine A. Nalepa United States	29	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	344 1.3×	133 1.0×	94	2.4k
Thomas Bourguignon Czechia	24	1.8k 0.7×	759 0.3×	1.9k 0.8×	205 0.8×	190 1.4×	108	2.4k
Thomas Eltz Germany	30	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	753 2.8×	193 1.4×	71	2.5k
Richard J. Gill United Kingdom	17	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	210 0.8×	59 0.4×	28	1.8k
Maria Cristina Arias Brazil	23	1.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	247 0.9×	103 0.8×	112	1.9k
Jean François Odoux France	14	2.0k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	329 1.2×	60 0.4×	24	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amro Zayed

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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

Richardson, Rodney T., Mateus Pepinelli, Ida M. Conflitti, et al.. (2023). Environmental metagenetics unveil novel plant‐pollinator interactions. Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). e10645–e10645. 5 indexed citations

Pepinelli, Mateus, Ida M. Conflitti, Rodney T. Richardson, et al.. (2023). Validating a multi-locus metabarcoding approach for characterizing mixed-pollen samples. Plant Methods. 19(1). 120–120. 12 indexed citations

Conflitti, Ida M., Alivia Dey, Harland M. Patch, et al.. (2021). Thrice out of Asia and the adaptive radiation of the western honey bee. Science Advances. 7(49). eabj2151–eabj2151. 38 indexed citations

Hoover, Shelley E., Abdullah Ibrahim, Stephen F. Pernal, et al.. (2020). Honey Bee Queen Production: Canadian Costing Case Study and Profitability Analysis. Journal of Economic Entomology. 113(4). 1618–1627. 17 indexed citations

Harpur, Brock A., Samir Moura Kadri, Ricardo de Oliveira Orsi, Charles W. Whitfield, & Amro Zayed. (2020). Defense Response in Brazilian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera scutellata × spp.) Is Underpinned by Complex Patterns of Admixture. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(8). 1367–1377. 16 indexed citations

Kapheim, Karen M., Beryl M. Jones, Hailin Pan, et al.. (2020). Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(24). 13615–13625. 38 indexed citations

Yagound, Boris, Amro Zayed, Julianne Lim, et al.. (2020). A Single Gene Causes Thelytokous Parthenogenesis, the Defining Feature of the Cape Honeybee Apis mellifera capensis. Current Biology. 30(12). 2248–2259.e6. 22 indexed citations

Kapheim, Karen M., Hailin Pan, Cai Li, et al.. (2019). Draft Genome Assembly and Population Genetics of an Agricultural Pollinator, the Solitary Alkali Bee (Halictidae: Nomia melanderi ). G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 9(3). 625–634. 19 indexed citations

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Harpur, Brock A., M. Marta Guarna, Heather Higo, et al.. (2019). Integrative Genomics Reveals the Genetics and Evolution of the Honey Bee’s Social Immune System. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(3). 937–948. 38 indexed citations

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Harpur, Brock A., et al.. (2018). Insects with similar social complexity show convergent patterns of adaptive molecular evolution. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10388–10388. 23 indexed citations

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Smith, Nicholas M. A., Claire M. Wade, Michael H. Allsopp, et al.. (2018). Strikingly high levels of heterozygosity despite 20 years of inbreeding in a clonal honey bee. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32(2). 144–152. 18 indexed citations

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Tsvetkov, Nadejda, et al.. (2017). Chronic exposure to neonicotinoids reduces honey bee health near corn crops. Science. 356(6345). 1395–1397. 399 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harpur, Brock A., Alivia Dey, Heather M. Hines, et al.. (2017). Queens and Workers Contribute Differently to Adaptive Evolution in Bumble Bees and Honey Bees. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(9). 2395–2402. 21 indexed citations

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Kadri, Samir Moura, Brock A. Harpur, Ricardo de Oliveira Orsi, & Amro Zayed. (2016). A variant reference data set for the Africanized honeybee, Apis mellifera. Scientific Data. 3(1). 160097–160097. 13 indexed citations

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Kent, Clement F., et al.. (2012). Recombination is associated with the evolution of genome structure and worker behavior in honey bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(44). 18012–18017. 76 indexed citations

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Zayed, Amro & Gene E. Robinson. (2012). Understanding the Relationship Between Brain Gene Expression and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee. Annual Review of Genetics. 46(1). 591–615. 148 indexed citations

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Zayed, Amro, et al.. (2007). Successful Biological Invasion despite a Severe Genetic Load. PLoS ONE. 2(9). e868–e868. 94 indexed citations

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Zayed, Amro & Laurence Packer. (2005). Complementary sex determination substantially increases extinction proneness of haplodiploid populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(30). 10742–10746. 262 indexed citations

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Zayed, Amro & Laurence Packer. (2002). Genetic differentiation across a behavioural boundary in a primitively eusocial bee, Halictus poeyi Lepeletier (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). Insectes Sociaux. 49(3). 282–288. 9 indexed citations

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