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In review & accepted accepted Standard methods for Apis cerana pest and pathogen research Panuwan Chantawannakul ; Alexis Beaurepaire ; Philippe Bulet ; Camille Houdelet ; Shaokang Huang ; Jianghong Li ; Taro Maeda ; Joachim R. de Miranda ; Robert J. Paxton ; Patcharin Phokasem ; Yoshiko Sakamoto ; Chainarong Sinpoo ; Maeva A. Techer ; Huoqing Zheng ; Vincent Dietemann Journal of Apicultural ResearchBEEBOOK Vol. IV; accepted, final article details pending STATUS accepted Varroa mites escape the evolutionary trap of haplodiploidy Nurit Eliash ; Tatsuya Endo ; Xia Hua ; Maeva A. Techer ; Juliana Rangel ; Huoqing Zheng ; Evan P. Economo ; Alexander S. Mikheyev Nature CommunicationsAccepted; final article DOI pending OPEN ↗ in review Unraveling the Original Host Shift of Varroa destructor, a Global Pest of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera in Eastern China Yicheng Lu ; Ye Feng ; Maeva A. Techer ; Yao Liu ; Stephen J. Martin ; Luo Zha ; Alexander S. Mikheyev ; Anna Brandorf ; Huoqing Zheng Molecular EcologyIn review STATUS in review Rapid Prediction of Locust Phase State Using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Aidan P. Holman ; Audélia M. Mechti ; Andie C. Miller ; Maeva A. Techer ; Nicolas K. Goff ; Hojun Song ; Spencer Behmer ; Dmitry Kurouski ; Gregory Sword Journal of the Royal Society InterfaceIn review; manuscript rsif-2026-0471 STATUS UNLOCKED ACHIEVEMENTS
Peer-reviewed papers 2026 Darwin’s solution: Honeybees survive mite vectors and viruses through natural selection Peter Neumann ; Alexis Beaurepaire ; Maria Bouga ; Robert Brodschneider ; Norman L. Carreck ; Bjørn Dahle ; Joachim R. de Miranda ; Raquel T. de Sousa ; Vincent Dietemann ; Nurit Eliash ; James D. Ellis ; Silvio Erler ; Jay D. Evans ; Barbara Locke ; Stephen Martin ; Fanny Mondet ; Linde Morawetz ; Arrigo Moro ; Aslı Özkırım ; Delphine Panziera ; Jeff Pettis ; Christian W.W. Pirk ; Aygün Schiesser ; Victoria Soroker ; Maeva A. Techer ; Geoffrey R. Williams ; Huoqing Zheng ; Kirsten S. Traynor Trends in Parasitology OPEN ↗ 2026 Rearing, dissection, and temporal transcriptomic profiling protocols to study density-dependent phenotypic plasticity in the genus Schistocerca Maéva A. Techer ; Vivian A. Peralta Santana ; Brandon Woo ; Richelle Marquess ; Christopher Brennan ; Audélia M.C. Mechti ; Jackson B. Linde ; Spencer T. Behmer ; Gregory A. Sword ; Hojun Song STAR Protocols7(2), 104554 OPEN ↗ 2025 Standard methods and good practices in Apis honey bee omics research Maeva A. Techer ; Priyadarshini Chakrabarti ; Lílian Caesar ; Sonia E. Eynard ; M. Catherine Farrell ; Leonard J. Foster ; June Gorrochategui-Ortega ; Dora Henriques ; Hongmei Li-Byarlay ; Jeffrey T. Morré ; Irene L. G. Newton ; Melanie Parejo ; M. Alice Pinto ; Alain Vignal ; Iratxe Zarraonaindia ; Alison McAfee Journal of Apicultural ResearchBEEBOOK Vol. IV, 64(2), 307–402 OPEN ↗ 2023 Evolutionarily diverse origins of deformed wing viruses in western honey bees Nonno Hasegawa ; Maeva A. Techer ; Noureddine Adjlane ; Muntasser Sabah al-Hissnawi ; Karina Antúnez ; Alexis Beaurepaire ; Krisztina Christmon ; Helene Delatte ; Usman H. Dukku ; Nurit Eliash ; Mogbel A. A. El-Niweiri ; Olivier Esnault ; Jay D. Evans ; Nizar J. Haddad ; Barbara Locke ; Irene Muñoz ; Grégoire Noël ; Delphine Panziera ; John M. K. Roberts ; Pilar De la Rúa ; Mohamed A. Shebl ; Zoran Stanimirovic ; David A. Rasmussen ; Alexander S. Mikheyev Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences120, e2301258120 OPEN ↗ 2023 A country-wide survey of Varroa destructor, an ectoparasitic mite of honey bees, in Nigeria: determination of mitochondrial haplotype Usman H. Dukku ; Maéva A. Techer ; Akua A. Yeboah ; Sandra N. Vincent Journal of Apicultural Research OPEN ↗ 2022 The first steps toward a global pandemic: reconstructing the demographic history of parasite host switches in its native range Maeva A. Techer ; John M. K. Roberts ; Reed A. Cartwright ; Alexander S. Mikheyev Molecular Ecology31(5), 1358–1374 OPEN ↗ 2021 A toolkit for studying Varroa genomics and transcriptomics: preservation, extraction, and sequencing library preparation Nonno Hasegawa ; Maeva Techer ; Alexander S. Mikheyev BMC Genomics22, 54 OPEN ↗ 2020 When European meets African honeybees in the tropics: morphological changes related to genetics in Mauritius Island Julien Galataud ; Hélène Delatte ; Maéva Angélique Techer ; Christophe Simiand ; Preeaduth Sookar ; Bernard Reynaud ; Johanna Clémencet PLOS ONE15(11), e0242053 OPEN ↗ 2020 Varroa destructor: a complex parasite, crippling honey bees worldwide Kirsten S. Traynor ; Fanny Mondet ; Joachim R. de Miranda ; Maeva Techer ; Vienna Kowallik ; Melissa A.Y. Oddie ; Panuwan Chantawannakul ; Alison McAfee Trends in Parasitology36(7), 592–606 OPEN ↗ 2020 A country-wide survey of Varroa destructor, an ectoparasitic mite of honey bees, in Nigeria: a preliminary report Usman H. Dukku ; Maéva Techer ; Sandra N. Vincent Journal of Apicultural Research59(1), 59–62 OPEN ↗ 2019 Divergent evolutionary trajectories following speciation in two ectoparasitic honey bee mites Maeva A. Techer ; Rahul V. Rane ; Miguel L. Grau ; John M. K. Roberts ; Shawn T. Sullivan ; Ivan Liachko ; Anna K. Childers ; Jay D. Evans ; Alexander S. Mikheyev Communications Biology2, 357 OPEN ↗ 2018 Autosomal and mitochondrial adaptation following admixture: a case study on the honeybees of Reunion Island David Wragg ; Maéva Angélique Techer ; Kamila Canale-Tabet ; Benjamin Basso ; Jean-Pierre Bidanel ; Emmanuelle Labarthe ; Olivier Bouchez ; Yves Le Conte ; Johanna Clémencet ; Hélène Delatte ; Alain Vignal Genome Biology and Evolution10(1), 220–238 OPEN ↗ 2017 Genetic diversity and differentiation among insular honey bee populations in the Southwest Indian Ocean likely reflect old geographical isolation and modern introductions Maéva Angélique Techer ; Johanna Clémencet ; Christophe Simiand ; Patrick Turpin ; Lionel Garnery ; Bernard Reynaud ; Hélène Delatte PLOS ONE12(12), e0189234 OPEN ↗ 2017 Large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis of native honey bee Apis mellifera populations reveals a new African subgroup private to the South West Indian Ocean islands Maéva Angélique Techer ; Johanna Clémencet ; Christophe Simiand ; Sookar Preeaduth ; Hamza Abdou Azali ; Bernard Reynaud ; Delatte Hélène BMC Genetics18, 53 OPEN ↗ 2016 Genetic diversity of the honeybee populations in the Seychelles archipelago Maéva A. Techer ; Johanna Clémencet ; Christophe Simiand ; Gilbert Portlouis ; Bernard Reynaud ; Hélène Delatte Insect Conservation and Diversity9(1), 13–26 OPEN ↗ 2015 Genetic diversity of the endemic honeybee Apis mellifera unicolor in Madagascar Henriette Rasolofoarivao ; Johanna Clémencet ; Maéva Angélique Techer ; Lala Harivelo Raveloson Ravaomanarivo ; Bernard Reynaud ; Hélène Delatte Apidologie46(6), 735–747 OPEN ↗ 2015 Genetic characterization of the honeybee population of Rodrigues Island, based on microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA Maéva Angélique Techer ; Johanna Clémencet ; Patrick Turpin ; Nicolas Volbert ; Bernard Reynaud ; Hélène Delatte Apidologie46(4), 445–454 OPEN ↗ TALKS / POSTERS
Conference and symposium talks 2025 4th COLOSS Asia Fantastic beasts and how to sequence them: from Apis protocols to Varroa genomics.
Hangzhou, China 2024 Theo Murphy Meeting Temporal dynamics of phase transitions in swarming locusts.
Cambridge, United Kingdom 2023 BPRI Symposium Time-course transcriptome landscape of phase transitions in the desert locust.
Houston, USA 2022 Entomological Society of America Sensory and brain transcriptomes during desert locust phase transitions.
Vancouver, Canada 2021 SOLATINA The untold story of Varroa’s successful invasion, revealed by worldwide population genomics.
Virtual 2020 1st COLOSS Asia World biogeography and population genomics of Varroa mites.
Chiang Mai, Thailand 2020 Plant and Animal Genome Conference Genomic insights into the global success of Varroa.
San Diego, USA 2019 ANU Ecology & Evolution Seminar At the origin of a global invasion: the honey bee parasite that keeps on jumping.
Canberra, Australia 2018 EcoEncontros The origins and evolutionary dynamics of the global Varroa invasion.
São Paulo, Brazil 2018 EurBee 8 Genomic footprints of successful host switches in Varroa mites.
Ghent, Belgium 2018 IUSSI The honey bee parasite behind a global biological invasion.
Guarujá, Brazil 2016 EurBee 7 Honey bee genetic diversity across South-West Indian Ocean islands.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2014 IUSSI Unraveling the mysteries of honey bees in the Mascarene Islands.
Cairns, Australia OUTREACH SCIENCE / SHARED SYSTEMS
Outreach science 2019 public science / public OIST Science Festival The story of bees and mites’ journey, shared with a public audience.
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