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Publications: DR Rachel Parkinson

Harrap MJM, Parkinson RH, Jones H, Wright GA ( 2025 ) . Bumblebees learn to use antennal and tarsal taste to predict the presence of nectar rewards in flowers . Journal of Experimental Biology vol. 228 , ( 20 )
Rossoni S, Parkinson RH, Niven JE, Nicholls E ( 2025 ) . Gustatory sensitivity to amino acids in bumblebee mouthparts . Royal Society Open Science vol. 12 , ( 5 )
Parkinson RH, Power EF, Walter K, McDermott‐Roberts AE, Pattrick JG, Wright GA ( 2025 ) . Do pollinators play a role in shaping the essential amino acids found in nectar? . New Phytologist vol. 245 , ( 5 ) 2279 - 2291 .
Parkinson RH, Scott J, Dorling AL, Jones H, Haslam M, McDermott-Roberts AE, Wright GA ( 2023 ) . Mouthparts of the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) exhibit poor acuity for the detection of pesticides in nectar . eLife vol. 12 ,
Harvey J, Chan B, Srivastava T, Zarebski AE, Dłotko P, Błaszczyk P, Parkinson RH, White LJ et al. ( 2023 ) . Epidemiological waves - Types, drivers and modulators in the COVID-19 pandemic . Heliyon vol. 9 , ( 5 )
Parkinson RH, Fecher C, Gray JR ( 2022 ) . Chronic exposure to insecticides impairs honeybee optomotor behaviour . Frontiers in Insect Science vol. 2 ,
Parkinson RH, Kessler SC, Scott J, Simpson A, Bu J, Al-Esawy M, Mahdi A, Miriyala A et al. ( 2022 ) . Temporal responses of bumblebee gustatory neurons to sugars . iScience vol. 25 , ( 7 )
Parkinson RH, Zhang S, Gray JR ( 2020 ) . Neonicotinoid and sulfoximine pesticides differentially impair insect escape behavior and motion detection . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 117 , ( 10 ) 5510 - 5515 .
Parkinson RH, Gray JR ( 2019 ) . Neural conduction, visual motion detection, and insect flight behaviour are disrupted by low doses of imidacloprid and its metabolites . NeuroToxicology vol. 72 , 107 - 113 .
Stott TP, Olson EGN, Parkinson RH, Gray JR ( 2018 ) . Three-dimensional shape and velocity changes affect responses of a locust visual interneuron to approaching objects . Journal of Experimental Biology vol. 221 , ( 24 )
Parkinson RH, Little JM, Gray JR ( 2017 ) . A sublethal dose of a neonicotinoid insecticide disrupts visual processing and collision avoidance behaviour in Locusta migratoria . Scientific Reports vol. 7 , ( 1 )
Harrap MJM, Parkinson RH, Jones H, Wright GA . Bumblebees learn to use peripheral taste to predict the presence of nectar in flowers .
Parkinson RH, Power EF, Walter K, McDermott-Roberts AE, Pattrick JG, Wright GA . Do pollinators play a role in shaping the essential amino acids found in nectar? .
Harvey J, Chan B, Srivastava T, Zarebski AE, Dłotko P, Błaszczyk P, Parkinson RH, White LJ et al. . Epidemiological waves - types, drivers and modulators in the COVID-19 pandemic .
Rossoni S, Parkinson RH, Niven JE, Nicholls E . Gustatory sensitivity to amino acids in bumblebees .
Parkinson RH, Cerbone H, Mieskolainen M, Cao S, Wilson AD, Albacete S, Armstrong EB, Bass C et al. . MetaBeeAI: an AI pipeline for full-text systematic reviews in biology .
Parkinson RH, Scott J, Dorling AL, Jones H, Haslam M, McDermott-Roberts AE, Wright GA . Mouthparts of the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) exhibit poor acuity for the detection of pesticides in nectar .
Parkinson RH, Kessler SC, Scott J, Simpson A, Bu J, Mahdi A, Miriyala A, Wright GA . Temporal responses of bumblebee gustatory neurons to sugars .