User:Eamonn B. Mallon

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Eamonn B. Mallon (an artistic interpretation)

• Eamonn B. Mallon
• University of Leicester
• LE1 7RH
• Leicester, U.K..
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Education

• 2001, PhD, University of Bath
• 1997, BA (Mod) Zoology, Trinity College Dublin

Research interests

1. Genomic imprinting and methylation in insects
2. Evolution of virulence

Publications

1. Riddell C, Adams S, Schmid-Hempel P, and Mallon EB. Differential expression of immune defences is associated with specific host-parasite interactions in insects. PLoS One. 2009 Oct 27;4(10):e7621. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0007621 |
2. Alghamdi A, Raine NE, Rosato E, and Mallon EB. No evidence for an evolutionary trade-off between learning and immunity in a social insect. Biol Lett. 2009 Feb 23;5(1):55-7. DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0514 |
3. Alghamdi A, Dalton L, Phillis A, Rosato E, and Mallon EB. Immune response impairs learning in free-flying bumble-bees. Biol Lett. 2008 Oct 23;4(5):479-81. DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0331 |
4. Tyler ER, Adams S, and Mallon EB. An immune response in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris leads to increased food consumption. BMC Physiol. 2006 Jul 17;6:6. DOI:10.1186/1472-6793-6-6 |
5. Riddell CE and Mallon EB. Insect psychoneuroimmunology: immune response reduces learning in protein starved bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Brain Behav Immun. 2006 Mar;20(2):135-8. DOI:10.1016/j.bbi.2005.06.008 |
6. Mallon EB and Schmid-Hempel P. Behavioural interactions, kin and disease susceptibility in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. J Evol Biol. 2004 Jul;17(4):829-33. DOI:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00717.x |
7. Mallon EB, Brockmann A, and Schmid-Hempel P. Immune response inhibits associative learning in insects. Proc Biol Sci. 2003 Dec 7;270(1532):2471-3. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2003.2456 |
8. Mallon EB, Loosli R, and Schmid-Hempel P. Specific versus nonspecific immune defense in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris L. Evolution. 2003 Jun;57(6):1444-7. DOI:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00351.x |
9. Franks NR, Pratt SC, Mallon EB, Britton NF, and Sumpter DJ. Information flow, opinion polling and collective intelligence in house-hunting social insects. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2002 Nov 29;357(1427):1567-83. DOI:10.1098/rstb.2002.1066 |
10. Mallon EB and Franks NR. Ants estimate area using Buffon's needle. Proc Biol Sci. 2000 Apr 22;267(1445):765-70. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2000.1069 |

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