Quinn McFrederick
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Biology, 2010, University of Virginia
M.A., Conservation Biology, 2004 San Francisco State University
B.A., Integrative Biology, 1993, University of California, Berkeley
Research Areas
Insect-symbiont interactions
Awards Received
2010-2013 NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology
2010 Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences, University of Virginia
2010 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Virginia
Publications
McFrederick QS, Wcislo WT, Hout MC, and Mueller UG. 2014. Host species and developmental stage, but not host social structure, affect bacterial community structure in socially polymorphic bees. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 88: 398-406.
McFrederick QS, Mueller UG, James RR. 2014. Interactions between fungi and bacteria influence microbial community structure in the Megachile rotundata larval gut. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 281: 20132653.
Engel P, James R, Koga R, Kwong WK, McFrederick QS, Moran NA. 2013. Standard methods for research on Apis mellifera gut symbionts. Journal of Apicultural Research(Part of the COLOSS BEEBOOK). 52: 07.
McFrederick QS, Haselkorn T, Verocai G, and Jaenike J. 2013. Cryptic Onchocercaspecies infecting North American cervids, with implications for the evolutionary history of host associations in Onchocerca. Parasitology. 140: 1201-1210.
McFrederick QS, Roulston, T, and Taylor D. 2013. Evolution of conflict and cooperation of nematodes associated with solitary and social sweat bees. Insectes Sociaux. 60: 309-317.
McFrederick QS, Cannone, J.J., Gutell, R.R., Kellner, K, Plowes, R.M. and Mueller, U.G. 2013. Host specificity between Hymenoptera and lactobacilli is the exception rather than the rule. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79: 1803-1812
McFrederick QS, and Taylor D. 2013. Evolutionary history of nematodes associated with sweat bees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66: 847-856.
McFrederick QS, Wcislo W, Taylor D, Ishak H, Dowd S, and Mueller U. 2012. Environment or kin: whence do bees obtain acidophilic bacteria? Molecular Ecology. 21: 1754-1768.
Antonovics J, Boots M, Abbate J, Baker C, McFrederick QS and Panjeti V. 2011. Biology and evolution of sexual transmission. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.1230: 12-24.
McFrederick QS, Fuents JD, Roulston TH, Kathilankal JC and Lerdau, M. 2009. Effects of air pollution on biogenic volatiles and ecological interactions. Oecologia. 160: 411-420.
McFrederick QS, Kathilankal JC and Fuentes JD. 2008. Air pollution modifies floral scent trails. Atmospheric Environment. 42: 2336-2348.
McFrederick QS and LeBuhn G. 2006. Are urban parks refuges for bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae)? Biological Conservation. 129: 372-382.
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