List of peer-reviewed publications by the fablab

• Szymański, S., Baracchi, D., Bowman, A.S., Dingle, L., Manfredini, F. "Learning performance and GABAergic pathway link to deformed wing virus in the mushroom bodies of naturally infected honey bees." bioRxiv (2023): 2023-10.

• Manfredini, F., Wurm, Y., Sumner, S.,  Leadbeater, E. (2023). "Transcriptomic responses to location learning by honeybee dancers are partly mirrored in the brains of dance-followers". Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(2013), 20232274.

• Veiner, M., Morimoto, J., Leadbeater, E., Manfredini, F. "Machine learning models identify gene predictors of waggle dance behaviour in honeybees." Molecular Ecology Resources  22, no. 6 (2022): 2248-2261. 

• Manfredini, F., Martinez Ruiz, C., Wurm, Y., Shoemaker, D.D., Brown, M.J.F. “Social Isolation and Group Size are Associated with Divergent Gene Expression in the Brain of Ant Queens." Genes, Brain and Behavior (2021): e12758.  

• Beani, L., Mariotti Lippi, M., Mulinacci, N., Manfredini, F., Cecchi, L., Giuliani, C., Tani, C., Meriggi, N., Cavalieri, D., Cappa, F. (2020). "Altered feeding behavior and immune competence in paper wasps: A case of parasite manipulation?". PLoS One, 15(12), e0242486.

• Beani, L., Dallai, R., Cappa, F., Manfredini, F., Zaccaroni, M., Lorenzi, M. C.,  Mercati, D. (2021). "A Strepsipteran parasite extends the lifespan of workers in a social wasp". Scientific Reports, 11(1), 7235.

• Manfredini, F., Arbetman, M. and Toth, A.L.T. "A potential role for phenotypic plasticity in invasions and declines of social insects." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2019) https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00375.

• Manfredini, F., Brown, M.J.F. and Toth, A.L.T. “Candidate genes for cooperation and aggression in a social wasp” available online in Journal of Comparative Physiology A (2018) DOI: 10.1007/s00359-018-1252-6.

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• Beani, L., Cappa, F., Manfredini, F.,  Zaccaroni, M. (2018). Preference of Polistes dominula wasps for trumpet creepers when infected by Xenos vesparum: A novel example of co-evolved traits between host and parasite. PloS one, 13(10), e0205201.

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• Kennedy, P., Baron, G., Bitao, Q., Freitak, D., Helanterä, H., Hunt, E., Manfredini, F., O’Shea-Wheller, T., Patalano, S., Pull, C., Sasaki, T., Taylor, D., Wyatt, C. and Sumner, S. “A new dawn in social insect research: small solutions for big problems in biology” available online in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (2017). 

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• Manfredini, F., Romero A., Paccanaro A., Pedroso I., Sumner S. and Brown M.J.F. “Neurogenomic signatures of successes and failures in key life-history transitions in a key insect pollinator” Genome Biology and Evolution (2017) https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx220.

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• Geffre, A., Liu, R., Manfredini, F., Beani, L., Kathirithamby, J., Grozinger, C.M., Toth, A.L. “Transcriptomics of an extended phenotype: parasite manipulation of wasp social behaviour shifts expression of caste-related genes” Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2017) DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0029. 

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• Beani, L., Marchini, D., Cappa, F., Petrocelli, I., Gottardo, M., Manfredini, F., Giusti, F., Dallai, R. “Subtle effect of Xenos vesparum (Xenidae, Strepsiptera) on the reproductive apparatus of its male host: parasite or parasitoid?” Journal of Insect Physiology (2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.06.010.

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• Doublet, V., … Manfredini, F., … Grozinger, C.M. “Unity in defence: honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens” BMC Genomics (2017) DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-3597-6.
• Manfredini, F., Shoemaker, D.D., Grozinger, C.M. “Dynamic changes in host-virus interactions associated with colony founding and social environment in fire ant queens Solenopsis invicta” Ecology and Evolution (2016) DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1843.

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• Manfredini# F., Brown# M.J.F., Vergoz V. and Oldroyd B.P. “Transcriptional changes in honey bee brain induced by mating process and CO2 narcosis” BMC Genomics (2015) DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1750-7.

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• Cappa, F., Beani, L., Cervo, R., Grozinger, C.M., Manfredini, F. “Testing male immunocompetence in two hymenopterans with different level of social organization: “live hard, die young?” The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2015) DOI: 10.1111/bij.12427.

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• Cappa, F., Manfredini, F., Dallai, R., Gottardo, M., Beani, L. “Parasitic castration by Xenos vesparum depends on host gender” Parasitology (2014) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ S003118201400047X.

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• Manfredini, F., Lucas, C., Nicolas, M., Keller, L., Shoemaker, D.D., Grozinger, C.M. “Molecular and social regulation of worker division of labour in fire ants” Molecular ecology (2014) DOI: 10.1111/mec.12626.

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• Manfredini, F., Riba-Grognuz, O., Wurm, Y., Keller, L., Shoemaker, D.D., Grozinger, C.M. “Sociogenomics of conflict and cooperation during colony founding in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta” PLoS Genetics (2013) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003633.

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• Manfredini, F., Beani, L. and Grozinger, C.M. “Examining the ‘evolution of increased competitive ability’ hypothesis in response to parasites and pathogens in the invasive paper wasp Polistes dominula." Die Naturwissenschaften 100 (3) (2013) 219-228.

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• Beani, L., Giusti, F., Mercati, D., Dallai, R., Manfredini, F. “When a parasite breaks all the rules of a colony: morphology and fate of paper wasps infected by a strepsipteran endoparasite” Animal Behavior 82 (2011) 1305-1312.

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• Manfredini, F., Beani, L., Taormina, M., Vannini, L. “Parasitic infection protects wasp larvae from a bacterial challenge” Microbes and Infection 12 (2010) 727-735.

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• Manfredini, F., Benati, D., Beani, L. “The strepsipteran endoparasite Xenos vesparum alters the immunocompetence of its host, the paper wasp Polistes dominulus” Journal of Insect Physiology 56, (2010) 253-259.

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• Manfredini, F., Massolo, A., Beani, L. “Hard to choose for tiny pests: host-seeking behaviour in Xenos vesparum triungulins” Ethology, Ecology and Evolution 22 (3) (2010) 247-256.

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• Dong, Y., Manfredini, F., Dimopoulos, G. “Implication of the mosquito midgut microbiota in the defense against malaria parasites” PloS Pathogens 5 (5) (2009) e1000423.

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• Manfredini, F., Dallai, R., Ottaviani, E. “Circulating hemocytes from larvae of the paper wasp Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)” Tissue and Cell 40 (2008) 103-112.

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• Giusti, F., Dallai, L., Beani, L., Manfredini, F., Dallai, R. “The midgut ultrastructure of the endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Insecta, Strepsiptera) during its post-embryonic development and carbon isotopic analyses of the nutrient uptake” Arthropod Structure & Development 36 (2008) 183-197.

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• Manfredini, F., Giusti, F., Beani, L., Dallai, R. “Preliminary data on the cellular response of Polistes immatures (Hymenoptera, Vespidae), hosts of the endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Strepsiptera, Stylopidae)” Redia XC (2007) 155-159.

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• Manfredini, F., Giusti, F., Beani, L., Dallai, R. “Developmental strategy of the endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Strepsiptera, Insecta): host invasion and elusion of its defence reactions” Journal of Morphology 268 (2007) 588-601.