Everything about Queen

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: QueenA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Honey bee colony loss rates in 37 countries using the COLOSS survey for winter 2019–2020: the combined effects of operation size, migration and queen replacementInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: CleopatraThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene LossCited 1,194 times
5. Go sideways: Queen regnantA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: The QueenA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene Loss

  J. Jeffrey Morris, Richard E. Lenski, Erik R. Zinser · 2012 · mBio · 1,194 citations

• Neonicotinoid Pesticide Reduces Bumble Bee Colony Growth and Queen Production

  Penelope R. Whitehorn, Stephanie O’Connor, Felix L. Wackers · 2012 · Science · 1,108 citations

• Volunteering as Red Queen Mechanism for Cooperation in Public Goods Games

  Christoph Hauert, Silvia De Monte, Josef Hofbauer · 2002 · Science · 981 citations

• Vitellogenin, juvenile hormone, insulin signaling, and queen honey bee longevity

  Miguel Corona, Rodrigo A. Velarde, Silvia Remolina · 2007 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 635 citations

• Host–parasite ‘Red Queen’ dynamics archived in pond sediment

  Ellen Decaestecker, Sabrina Gaba, Joost A. M. Raeymaekers · 2007 · Nature · 598 citations

• Royalactin induces queen differentiation in honeybees

  Masaki Kamakura · 2011 · Nature · 546 citations

• The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time

  Michael J. Benton · 2009 · Science · 516 citations

• The queen bee phenomenon: Why women leaders distance themselves from junior women

  Belle Derks, Colette Van Laar, Naomi Ellemers · 2016 · The Leadership Quarterly · 457 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Honey bee colony loss rates in 37 countries using the COLOSS survey for winter 2019–2020: the combined effects of operation size, migration and queen replacement

  Alison Gray, Noureddine Adjlane, Alireza Arab · 2022 · Journal of Apicultural Research · 147 citations

• Role Models in Movies: The Impact of Queen of Katwe on Students’ Educational Attainment

  Emma Riley · 2024 · Review of Economics and Statistics · 71 citations

• Acoustic and vibration monitoring of honeybee colonies for beekeeping-relevant aspects of presence of queen bee and swarming

  Cassandra Uthoff, Masun Nabhan Homsi, Martin von Bergen · 2023 · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · 64 citations

• A meta-inspired termite queen algorithm for global optimization and engineering design problems

  Peng Chen, Shihua Zhou, Qiang Zhang · 2022 · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 44 citations

• Trans architecture and the prison as archive: “don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested”

  Tait Sanders, Jessica Gildersleeve, Sherree Halliwell · 2022 · Punishment & Society · 40 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• CleopatraH. Rider Haggard · 1881
• History of Cleopatra, queen of EgyptJacob Abbott · 1851
• Queen VictoriaGiles Lytton Strachey · 1921
• Elizabeth IJacob Abbott · 1849
• Marie AntoinetteStefan Zweig · 1900
• Dragons of Spring DawningMargaret Weis, Tracy Hickman · 1900
• Assassin's ApprenticeRobin Hobb · 1995
• The Uncommon ReaderAlan Bennett · 2007

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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