Esther E. du Rand

University of Pretoria — South Africa

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

7h-index384citations11works2.02yr avg

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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(10), Insect and Pesticide Research(9), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(8), Insect behavior and control techniques(2), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(1)

Publications11 total

The effect of diet on the development of pheromone signals in <i>Apis mellifera scutellata</i> workers

2 cited

Journal of Apicultural Research·2024· 2 cited

Oxidative Damage Is Influenced by Diet But Unaffected by Selection for Early Age of Oviposition in the Marula Fly, Ceratitis cosyra (Diptera: Tephritidae)

7 cited

Frontiers in Physiology·2022· 7 citedOpen Access

Functional response of the hypopharyngeal glands to a social parasitism challenge in Southern African honey bee subspecies

6 cited

Parasitology Research·2022· 6 cited

Prisoners receive food fit for a queen: honeybees feed small hive beetles protein-rich glandular secretions through trophallaxis

9 cited

Journal of Experimental Biology·2020· 9 citedOpen Access

Antibiotic treatment impairs protein digestion in the honeybee, Apis mellifera

17 cited

Apidologie·2019· 17 citedOpen Access

Adult diet of a tephritid fruit fly does not compensate for impact of a poor larval diet on stress resistance

23 cited

Journal of Experimental Biology·2019· 23 citedOpen Access

Proteomic and metabolomic analysis reveals rapid and extensive nicotine detoxification ability in honey bee larvae

36 cited

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology·2017· 36 cited

Detoxification and elimination of nicotine by nectar-feeding birds

2 cited

Journal of Comparative Physiology B·2017· 2 cited

The metabolic fate of nectar nicotine in worker honey bees

26 cited

Journal of Insect Physiology·2016· 26 cited

Detoxification mechanisms of honey bees (Apis mellifera) resulting in tolerance of dietary nicotine

219 cited

Scientific Reports·2015· 219 citedOpen Access

Resistance of developing honeybee larvae during chronic exposure to dietary nicotine

37 cited

Journal of Insect Physiology·2014· 37 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Christian W. W. Pirk(8), Sue W. Nicolson(8), Zeno Apostolides(3), Hannelie Human(3), Abdullahi A. Yusuf(3), Salome Smit(2), Mervyn Beukes(2), C. Ruth Archer(2), Christopher W. Weldon(2), Kévin Malod(2), Zoë Langlands(2), Sandiso Mnguni(1), Fabien Démares(1), Aruna Manrakhan(1), Christian Stutzer(1), Karl Crailsheim(1), Sara Lerch‐Henning(1), Olabimpe O. Okosun(1)