Factors affecting heat resilience of drone honey bees (Apis mellifera) and their sperm

• Alison McAfee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alison McAfee, Bradley N. Metz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: alison.n.mcafee@gmail.com (AM); foster@msl.ubc.ca (LJF)

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-6649

  ⨯
• Bradley N. Metz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alison McAfee, Bradley N. Metz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  ⨯
• Patrick Connor,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  ⨯
• Keana Du,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  ⨯
• Christopher W. Allen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER), Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

  ⨯
• Luis A. Frausto,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Center for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER), Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

  ⨯
• Mark P. Swenson,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Center for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER), Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

  ⨯
• Kylah S. Phillips,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Center for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER), Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

  ⨯
• Madison Julien,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER), Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

  ⨯
• Zoe Rempel,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

  ⨯
• Robert W. Currie,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

  ⨯
• Boris Baer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BB, DRT and LJF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER), Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

  ⨯
• David R. Tarpy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BB, DRT and LJF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8601-6094

  ⨯
• Leonard J. Foster

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alison.n.mcafee@gmail.com (AM); foster@msl.ubc.ca (LJF)

  ¶‡ BB, DRT and LJF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  ⨯