Inquiline social parasites as tools to unlock the secrets of insect sociality

Alessandro Cini , Seirian Sumner , Rita Cervo
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374 ( 1769) 20180193 -20180193

11
2019
Rethinking recognition: social context in adult life rather than early experience shapes recognition in a social wasp

Federico Cappa , Alessandro Cini , Lisa Signorotti , Rita Cervo
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 ( 1802) 20190468

2
2020
Increased immunocompetence and network centrality of allogroomer workers suggest a link between individual and social immunity in honeybees.

Alessandro Cini , Adele Bordoni , Federico Cappa , Iacopo Petrocelli
Scientific Reports 10 ( 1) 8928 -8928

11
2020
Adult-larval vibrational communication in paper wasps: the role of abdominal wagging in Polistes dominula.

Irene Pepiciello , Alessandro Cini , Rachele Nieri , Valerio Mazzoni
The Journal of Experimental Biology 221 ( 20) 34

1
2018
Timing matters when assessing dominance and chemical signatures in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus

Leonardo Dapporto , Claudia Bruschini , Rita Cervo , Francesca R. Dani
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64 ( 8) 1363 -1365

8
2010
Almost royal: incomplete suppression of host worker ovarian development by a social parasite wasp

Alessandro Cini , Rachele Nieri , Leonardo Dapporto , Thibaud Monnin
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68 ( 3) 467 -475

17
2014
Antennal Protein Profile in Honeybees: Caste and Task Matter More Than Age.

Immacolata Iovinella , Federico Cappa , Alessandro Cini , Iacopo Petrocelli
Frontiers in Physiology 9 748

11
2018
Facultative social parasites mark host nests with branched hydrocarbons

M. Cristina Lorenzi , Rita Cervo , Anne-Geneviève Bagnères
Animal Behaviour 82 ( 5) 1143 -1149

24
2011
Assessing immunocompetence in red palm weevil adult and immature stages in response to bacterial challenge and entomopathogenic nematode infection.

Federico Cappa , Giulia Torrini , Giuseppe Mazza , Alberto Francesco Inghilesi
Insect Science 27 ( 5) 1031 -1042

3
2020
Steroid hormones and reproductive history of the grey partridge (Perdix perdix)

Concetta Lupo , Laura Beam , Rita Cervo , Leda Lodi
Italian Journal of Zoology 57 ( 3) 247 -252

14
1990
19
1992
Oral communications: Mother recognition in workers ofPolistes gallicus(Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Francesca Romana Dani , Lucia Marchiani , Rita Cervo , Stefano Turillazzi
Italian Journal of Zoology 61 51 -51

1
1994
The importance of being yellow: visual over chemical cues in gender recognition in a social wasp

Federico Cappa , Laura Beani , Rita Cervo
Behavioral Ecology 27 ( 4) 1182 -1189

15
2016
Effects of the diet on the microbiota of the red palm weevil (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae).

Matteo Montagna , Bessem Chouaia , Giuseppe Mazza , Erica Maria Prosdocimi
PLOS ONE 10 ( 1) 1 -22

50
2015
Unrelated helpers in a social insect.

David C. Queller , Francesca Zacchi , Rita Cervo , Stefano Turillazzi
Nature 405 ( 6788) 784 -787

221
2000
Novel Insights into the Ontogeny of Nestmate Recognition in Polistes Social Wasps

Lisa Signorotti , Federico Cappa , Patrizia d’Ettorre , Rita Cervo
PLoS ONE 9 ( 5) e97024

11
2014
The queen is not a pacemaker in the small-colony wasps Polistes instabilis and P. dominulus

Shalene Jha , Rowan G. Casey-Ford , Jes S. Pedersen , Thomas G. Platt
Animal Behaviour 71 ( 5) 1197 -1203

26
2006
Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) larvae possess their own chemical signatures.

Chiara Cotoneschi , Francesca R. Dani , Rita Cervo , Matthew F. Sledge
Journal of Insect Physiology 53 ( 9) 954 -963

22
2007
Natural biocide disrupts nestmate recognition in honeybees.

Federico Cappa , Iacopo Petrocelli , Francesca Romana Dani , Leonardo Dapporto
Scientific Reports 9 ( 1) 1 -10

11
2019
Testing male immunocompetence in two hymenopterans with different levels of social organization: ‘live hard, die young?’

Federico Cappa , Laura Beani , Rita Cervo , Christina Grozinger
Biological Journal of The Linnean Society 114 ( 2) 274 -278

17
2015