Publications

Fowler AE, McFrederick QS, Adler LS. 2024. Pollen diet diversity does not affect gut bacterial communities or melanization in a social and solitary bee species. Microbial Ecology. 87:25.

Yost RT, Fowler AE, Adler LS. 2023 Gut transplants from bees fed an antipathogenic pollen diet do not confer pathogen resistance to recipients. Microbial Ecology. 86:3133-3137.

Fowler AE, Kola E, Adler LS. 2023. The effect of sunflower pollen age and origin on pathogen infection in the common eastern bumble bee (Apidae: Hymenoptera). Journal of Economic Entomology. toad154.

Figueroa LL, Fowler AE, Lopez S, Amaral VE, Koch H, Stevenson PC, Irwin RE, Adler LS. 2023. Sunflower spines and beyond: mechanisms and breadth of pollen that reduce gut pathogen infection in the common eastern bumble bee. Functional Ecology. 00:1-13. (link)

Fowler AE, Sadd BM, Bassingthwaite T, Irwin RE, Adler LS. 2022. Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumble bees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 377: 20210160. (link)

Fowler AE, Giacomini JJ, Connon SJ, Irwin RE, Adler LS. 2022. Sunflower pollen reduces a gut pathogen in the model bee species, Bombus impatiens, but has weaker effects in three wild congeners. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 298(1968).

Fowler AE, Stone EC, Irwin RE, Adler LS. 2020. Sunflower pollen reduces a gut pathogen in worker and queen but not male bumble bees. Ecological Entomology. 45(6):1318-1326.

Adler LS, Fowler AE, Malfi RL, Anderson PR, Coppinger LM, Deneen PM, Lopez S, Irwin RE, Farrell IW, Stevenson PC. 2020. Assessing chemical mechanisms underlying the effects of sunflower pollen on a gut pathogen in bumble bees. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 46:649-658.

Fowler AE, Irwin RE, Adler LS. 2019. Parasite defense mechanisms in bees: behavior, immunity, antimicrobials, and symbionts. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. 4(1):59-76.

Beasley DE, Fitzgerald J, Fowler AE, Keleher K, Lopez-Uribe MM, Dunn RR. 2019. Do Bee Wings Adapt for Flight in Urban Environments? Southeastern Naturalist. 18(2):183-191

Youngsteadt E, Irwin RE, Fowler AE, Kunz M, Suiter D, Connon SJ, Bertone M, Sorenson C. 2018. Venus Flytrap rarely traps its pollinators. American Naturalist. 191:539-546.

Fowler AE, Lor D, Farrell C, Bauman M, Peterson MN, Langerhans RB. 2018. Predator loss leads to reduced antipredator behaviors in Bahamas Mosquitofish. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 19:378-405.