Doctor Simon Tierney

Journal Articles

• Chapman, N., Colin, T., Cook, J., Da Silva, C., Gloag, R., Hogendoorn, K., Howard, S., Remnant, E., Roberts, J., Tierney, S., Wilson, R. and Mikheyev, A. (2023), 'The final frontier : ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a global parasite invasion', Biology Letters, vol 19, no 5 .
• Tierney, S., Bernauer, O., King, L., Spooner-Hart, R. and Cook, J. (2023), 'Bee pollination services and the burden of biogeography', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 290, no 2000 .
• Bousjein, N., Tierney, S., Gardner, M. and Schwarz, M. (2022), 'Does effective population size affect rates of molecular evolution : mitochondrial data for host/parasite species pairs in bees suggests not', Ecology and Evolution, vol 12, no 2 .
• Bernauer, O., Cook, J. and Tierney, S. (2022), 'Division of foraging behaviour : assessments of pollinator traits when visiting a model plant species', Animal Behaviour, vol 188 , pp 169 - 179.
• Langille, B., Tierney, S., Bertozzi, T., Beasley-Hall, P., Bradford, T., Fagan-Jeffries, E., Hyde, J., Leijs, R., Richardson, M., Saint, K., Stringer, D., Villastrigo, A., Humphreys, W., Austin, A. and Cooper, S. (2022), 'Parallel decay of vision genes in subterranean water beetles', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol 173 .
• Beasley-Hall, P., Bertozzi, T., Bradford, T., Foster, C., Jones, K., Tierney, S., Humphreys, W., Austin, A. and Cooper, S. (2022), 'Differential transcriptomic responses to heat stress in surface and subterranean diving beetles', Scientific Reports, vol 12, no 1 .
• Bernauer, O., Tierney, S. and Cook, J. (2022), 'Efficiency and effectiveness of native bees and honey bees as pollinators of apples in New South Wales orchards', Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, vol 337 .
• Langille, B., Hyde, J., Saint, K., Bradford, T., Stringer, D., Tierney, S., Humphreys, W., Austin, A. and Cooper, S. (2021), 'Evidence for speciation underground in diving beetles (Dytiscidae) from a subterranean archipelago', Evolution, vol 75, no 1 , pp 166 - 175.
• Stringer, D., Bertozzi, T., Meusemann, K., Delean, S., Guzik, M., Tierney, S., Mayer, C., Cooper, S., Javidkar, M., Zwick, A. and Austin, A. (2021), 'Development and evaluation of a custom bait design based on 469 single-copy protein-coding genes for exon capture of isopods (Philosciidae: Haloniscus)', PLoS One, vol 16, no 9 .
• Freelance, C., Tierney, S., Rodriguez, J., Stuart-Fox, D., Wong, B. and Elgar, M. (2021), 'The eyes have it : dim-light activity is associated with the morphology of eyes but not antennae across insect orders', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol 134, no 2 , pp 303 - 315.
• Bernauer, O., Cook, J. and Tierney, S. (2021), 'Nesting biology and social organisation of the allodapine bee Exoneura angophorae (Hymenoptera: Apidae) : montane environmental constraints yield biased sex allocation yet phenology is unhindered', Insectes Sociaux, vol 68, no 4 , pp 337 - 349.
• Langille, B., Tierney, S., Austin, A., Humphreys, W. and Cooper, S. (2019), 'How blind are they? : phototactic responses in stygobiont diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from calcrete aquifers of Western Australia', Austral Entomology, vol 58, no 2 , pp 425 - 431.
• Freelance, C., Majoe, M., Tierney, S. and Elgar, M. (2019), 'Antennal asymmetry is not associated with social behaviour in Australian Hymenoptera', Austral Entomology, vol 58, no 3 , pp 589 - 594.
• Dew, R., Tierney, S. and Schwarz, M. (2018), 'Lack of ovarian skew in an allodapine bee and the evolution of casteless social behaviour', Ethology Ecology and Evolution, vol 30, no 1 , pp 51 - 69.
• Dew, R., Tierney, S., Gardner, M. and Schwarz, M. (2018), 'Casteless behaviour in social groups of the bee Exoneurella eremophila', Apidologie, vol 49, no 2 , pp 265 - 275.
• Beasley-Hall, P., Tierney, S., Weinstein, P. and Austin, A. (2018), 'A revised phylogeny of macropathine cave crickets (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) uncovers a paraphyletic Australian fauna', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol 126 , pp 153 - 161.
• Klopfstein, S., Van Der Schyff, G., Tierney, S. and Austin, A. (2018), 'Wolbachia infections in Australian ichneumonid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) : evidence for adherence to the global equilibrium hypothesis', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol 123, no 3 , pp 518 - 534.
• Tierney, S., Langille, B., Humphreys, W., Austin, A. and Cooper, S. (2018), 'Massive parallel regression : a precis of genetic mechanisms for vision loss in diving beetles', Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol 58, no 3 , pp 465 - 479.
• Tierney, S., Friedrich, M., Humphreys, W., Jones, T., Warrant, E. and Wcislo, W. (2017), 'Consequences of evolutionary transitions in changing photic environments', Austral Entomology, vol 56, no 1 , pp 23 - 46.
• Dew, R., Tierney, S. and Schwarz, M. (2016), 'Social evolution and casteless societies : needs for new terminology and a new evolutionary focus', Insectes Sociaux, vol 63, no 1 , pp 5 - 14.
• Tierney, S., Cooper, S., Saint, K., Bertozzi, T., Hyde, J., Humphreys, W. and Austin, A. (2015), 'Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles : a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches', Royal Society Open Science, vol 2, no 1 .
• Rehan, S., Tierney, S. and Wcislo, W. (2015), 'Evidence for social nesting in neotropical ceratinine bees', Insectes Sociaux, vol 62, no 4 , pp 465 - 469.
• Smith, J., Chenoweth, L., Tierney, S. and Schwarz, M. (2013), 'Repeated origins of social parasitism in allodapine bees indicate that the weak form of Emery's rule is widespread, yet sympatric speciation remains highly problematic', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol 109, no 2 , pp 320 - 331.
• Tierney, S., Fischer, C., Rehan, S., Kapheim, K. and Wcislo, W. (2013), 'Frequency of social nesting in the sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) does not vary across a rainfall gradient, despite disparity in brood production and body size', Insectes Sociaux, vol 60, no 2 , pp 163 - 172.
• Dew, R., Rehan, S., Tierney, S., Chenoweth, L. and Schwarz, M. (2012), 'A single origin of large colony size in allodapine bees suggests a threshold event among 50 million years of evolutionary tinkering', Insectes Sociaux, vol 59, no 2 , pp 207 - 214.
• Tierney, S., Sanjur, O., Grajales, G., Santos, L., Bermingham, E. and Wcislo, W. (2012), 'Photic niche invasions : phylogenetic history of the dim-light foraging augochlorine bees (Halictidae)', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 279, no 1729 , pp 794 - 803.
• Schwarz, M., Tierney, S., Rehan, S., Chenoweth, L. and Cooper, S. (2011), 'The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees : workers began by waiting', Biology Letters, vol 7, no 2 , pp 277 - 280.
• Santos, L., Tierney, S. and Wcislo, W. (2010), 'Nest descriptions of Megalopta aegis (Vachal) and M. guimaraesi Santos & Silveira (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado', Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, vol 54, no 2 , pp 332 - 334.
• Wcislo, W. and Tierney, S. (2009), 'Behavioural environments and niche construction : the evolution of dim-light foraging in bees', Biological Reviews, vol 84, no 1 , pp 19 - 37.
• Tierney, S. and Schwarz, M. (2009), 'Reproductive hierarchies in the African allodapine bee Allodapula dichroa (Apidae: Xylocopinae) and ancestral forms of sociality', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol 97, no 3 , pp 520 - 530.
• Tierney, S., Gonzales-Ojeda, T. and Wcislo, W. (2008), 'Biology of a nocturnal bee, Megalopta atra (Hymenoptera: Halictidae; Augochlorini), from the Panamanian highlands', Journal of Natural History, vol 42, no 27-28 , pp 1841 - 1847.
• Tierney, S., Gonzales-Ojeda, T. and Wcislo, W. (2008), 'Nesting biology and social behavior of two Xenochlora bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) from Peru', Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, vol 81, no 1 , pp 61 - 72.
• Tierney, S., Smith, J., Chenoweth, L. and Schwarz, M. (2008), 'Phylogenetics of allodapine bees : a review of social evolution, parasitism and biogeography', Apidologie, vol 39, no 1 , pp 3 - 15.
• Chenoweth, L., Fuller, S., Tierney, S., Park, Y. and Schwarz, M. (2008), 'Hasinamelissa : a new genus of allodapine bee from Madagascar revealed by larval morphology and DNA sequence data', Systematic Entomology, vol 33, no 4 , pp 700 - 710.
• Smith, J., Tierney, S., Park, Y., Fuller, S. and Schwarz, M. (2007), 'Origins of social parasitism: the importance of divergence ages in phylogenetic studies', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol 43, no 3 , pp 1131 - 1137.
• Chenoweth, L., Tierney, S., Smith, J., Cooper, S. and Schwarz, M. (2007), 'Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales', BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol 7, no suppl. 2 .
• Schwarz, M., Fuller, S., Tierney, S. and Cooper, S. (2006), 'Molecular phylogenetics of the exoneurine allodapine bees reveal an ancient and puzzling dispersal from Africa to Australia', Systematic Biology, vol 55, no 1 , pp 31 - 45.
• Aenmey, T., Tierney, S., Pillay, N. and Schwarz, M. (2006), 'Nesting biology of an African allodapine bee Braunsapis vitrea : female biased sex allocation in the absence of worker-like behavioural castes', Ethology Ecology & Evolution, vol 18, no 3 , pp 205 - 220.
• Fuller, S., Schwarz, M. and Tierney, S. (2005), 'Phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis : historical biogeography and long-range dispersal over water', Journal of Biogeography, vol 32, no 12 , pp 2135 - 2144.
• Schwarz, M., Tierney, S., Zammit, J., Schwarz, P. and Fuller, S. (2005), 'Brood provisioning and colony composition of a Malagasy species of Halterapis : implications for social evolution in the allodapine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae)', Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol 98, no 1 , pp 126 - 133.
• Schwarz, M., Tierney, S., Cooper, S. and Bull, N. (2004), 'Molecular phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis : A-T bias and heterogeneous substitution parameters', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol 32, no 1 , pp 110 - 122.
• Tierney, S. and Schwarz, M. (2003), 'Taxonomic description of allodapine bees from the Zanzibar archipelago genus Macrogalea (Hymenoptera: Apidae)', African Entomology, vol 11, no 2 , pp 199 - 203.
• Tierney, S., Schwarz, M., Neville, T. and Schwarz, P. (2002), 'Sociality in the phylogenetically basal allodapine bee genus Macrogalea (Apidae, Xylocopinae) : implications for social evolution in the tribe Allodapini', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol 76, no 2 , pp 211 - 224.
• Tierney, S., Cronin, A., Loussert, N. and Schwarz, M. (2000), 'The biology of Brevineura froggatti and phylogenetic conservatism in Australian allodapine bees (Apidae, Allodapini)', Insectes Sociaux, vol 47, no 1 , pp 96 - 97.
• Neville, T., Schwarz, M. and Tierney, S. (1998), 'Biology of a weakly social bee, Exoneura (Exoneurella) setosa (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and implications for social evolution in Australian allodapine bees', Australian Journal of Zoology, vol 46, no 3 , pp 221 - 234.
• Tierney, S., Schwarz, M. and Adams, M. (1997), 'Social behaviour in an Australian allodapine bee Exoneura (Brevineura) xanthoclypeata (Hymenoptera : Apidae)', Australian Journal of Zoology, vol 45, no 4 , pp 385 - 398.