Gro Amdam

From the past 5 years.

• Quigley T, Amdam G. Effect of aging and Varroa parasitism on the paracellular and transcellular permeability of the honeybee blood-brain barrier. PLoS One. 2026;21(3):e0343142. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0343142
• Gracia Carmona O, Leipart V, Amdam GV, Orengo C, Fraternali F. Leveraging protein language models and a scoring function for indel characterization and transfer learning. Patterns. 2025;7(2):101425. doi:10.1016/j.patter.2025.101425
• Leipart V, Gracia Carmona O, Orengo C, Fraternali F, Amdam GV. Assessing structure-function impacts on vitellogenin by leveraging allelic variant found in honey bee subspecies Apis mellifera mellifera. iScience. 2025;28(9):113241. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2025.113241
• Harwood G, Leipart V, Elsik C, Ng JCF, Drabløs F, Amdam GV. Evidence for vitellogenin DNA-binding in honey bees. Protein Science. 2025;34(10):e70291. doi:10.1002/pro.70291
• Leipart V, Amdam GV, O’Brien S, Pigott E, Dodds G, Ihle KE. AI-enhanced marker-assisted selection concept for the multifunctional honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidea) protein vitellogenin (Vg). Journal of Economic Entomology. 2025;118(5):2133–2144. doi:10.1093/jee/toaf187
• Montserrat-Canals M, Schnelle K, Leipart V, Halskau Ø, Amdam GV, Moeller A, Cunha ES, Luecke H. Cryo-EM structure of native honey bee vitellogenin. Nature Communications. 2025;16:5736. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58575-y
• Oreshkova A, Scofield S, Amdam GV. The effects of queen mandibular pheromone on nurse-aged honey bee (Apis mellifera) hypopharyngeal gland size and lipid metabolism. PLoS One. 2024;19(9):e0292500. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0292500
• Scofield SL, Amdam GV. Fat body lipogenic capacity in honey bee workers is affected by age, social role and dietary protein. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2024;227(18):jeb247777. doi:10.1242/jeb.247777
• Daniels BC, Wang Y, Page RE Jr, Amdam GV. Identifying a developmental transition in honey bees using gene expression data. PLoS Computational Biology. 2023;19(9):e1010704. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010704
• Leipart V, Enger Ø, Turcu DC, Dobrovolska O, Drabløs F, Halskau Ø, Amdam GV. Resolving the zinc binding capacity of honey bee vitellogenin and locating its putative binding sites. Insect Molecular Biology. 2022;31(6):810–820. doi:10.1111/imb.12807
• Leipart V, Ludvigsen J, Kent M, Sandve S, To TH, Árnyasi M, Kreibich CD, Dahle B, Amdam GV. Identification of 121 variants of honey bee vitellogenin protein sequences with structural differences at functional sites. Protein Science. 2022;31(7):e4369. doi:10.1002/pro.4369
• Leipart V, Halskau Ø, Amdam GV. How honey bee vitellogenin holds lipid cargo: a role for the C-terminal. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 2022;9:865194. doi:10.3389/fmolb.2022.865194
• Salmela H, Harwood GP, Münch D, Elsik CG, Herrero-Galán E, Vartiainen MK, Amdam GV. Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Apidologie. 2022;53:13. doi:10.1007/s13592-022-00914-9
• Leipart V, Montserrat-Canals M, Cunha ES, Luecke H, Herrero-Galán E, Halskau Ø, Amdam GV. Structure prediction of honey bee vitellogenin: a multi-domain protein important for insect immunity. FEBS Open Bio. 2022;12(1):51–70. doi:10.1002/2211-5463.13316
• Rasmussen EMK, Seier KL, Pedersen IK, Kreibich C, Amdam GV, Münch D, Dahl JA. Screening bioactive food compounds in honey bees suggests curcumin blocks alcohol-induced damage to longevity and DNA methylation. Scientific Reports. 2021;11:19156. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-98614-4
• Harwood G, Salmela H, Freitak D, Amdam G. Social immunity in honey bees: royal jelly as a vehicle in transferring bacterial pathogen fragments between nestmates. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2021;224(7):jeb231076. doi:10.1242/jeb.231076
• Quigley TP, Amdam GV. Social modulation of ageing: mechanisms, ecology, evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 2021;376(1823):20190738. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0738