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Team publications Giurfa/Devaud
Artificial Diets Modulate Infection Rates by Nosema ceranae in Bumblebees
Microorganisms. 2021 Jan 12;9(1):E158.
2021 Jan doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9010158.
Pesticide dosing must be guided by ecological principles.
Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Dec;4(12):1575-1577.
2020 Dec doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-01302-1.
Towards a multi-level understanding in insect navigation
Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2020 Dec;42:110-117. Epub 2020 Oct 22.
2020 Dec doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2020.10.006.
Black lives matter: revisiting Charles Henry Turner’s experiments on honey bee color vision
Current Biology 30(20): R1235-R1239. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.075
2020 Nov Available for free download
Fruit flies can learn non-elemental olfactory discriminations
Proc Biol Sci. 2020 Nov 11;287(1938):20201234.
2020 Nov doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1234
Pheromone components affect motivation and induce persistent modulation of associative learning and memory in honey bees
Commun Biol. 2020 Aug 17;3(1):447. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01183-x.
2020 Sep
Different mechanisms underlie implicit visual statistical learning in honey bees and humans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2020, 201919387; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919387117
2020 Sep
Behavioral tagging underlies memory reconsolidation
PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 202009517: 1-8
2020 Aug https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009517117
Degradation of an appetitive olfactory memory via devaluation of sugar reward is mediated by 5-HT signaling in the honey bee
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 173: 107278
2020 Jul
Learning of sameness/difference relationships by honey bees: performance, strategies and ecological context
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 37: 1-6
2020 Jul
Trail-pheromone modulates subjective reward evaluation in Argentine ants
The Journal of Experimental Biology jeb.230532 doi: 10.1242/jeb.230532
2020 Jul
Route-following ants respond to alterations of the view sequence
J Exp Biol . 2020 Jul 15;223(Pt 14):jeb218701. doi: 10.1242/jeb.218701.
2020 Jul
A cognitive analysis of deceptive pollination: associative mechanisms underlying pollinators' choices in non-rewarding colour polymorphic scenarios
Scientific Reports 10(1):9476, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66356-4
2020 Jun
Spontaneous quantity discrimination of artificial flowers by foraging honeybees
J Exp Biol 223(Pt 9). pii: jeb223610. doi: 10.1242/jeb.223610.
2020 May
Rapid Aversive and Memory Trace Learning during Route Navigation in Desert Ants
Curr Biol. pii: S0960-9822(20)30289-X. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.082.
2020 Apr
Redefining single-trial memories in the honeybee
Cell Reports 30: 2603–2613
2020 Feb The Editor's Choice of The Scientist: https://www.the-scientist.com/the-literature/once-is-enough-for-long-term-memory-formation-in-bees-67467
Opponent processes in visual memories: A model of attraction and repulsion in navigating insects' mushroom bodies
PLoS Comput Biol. 16(2):e1007631. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007631.
2020 Feb
The role of attractive and repellent scene memories in ant homing (Myrmecia croslandi)
J Exp Biol. 223(Pt 3). pii: jeb210021. doi: 10.1242/jeb.210021.
2020 Feb
(2020) Higher-order discrimination learning by honey bees in a virtual environment
European Journal of Neuroscience 00: 1-14. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14633.
2020 Jan
Spatial-memory formation after spaced learning involves ERKs1/2 activation through a behavioral-tagging process.
Scientific Reports 10:98. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-57007-4
2020 Jan
Editorial: The Mechanisms of Insect Cognition.
Frontiers in Psychology 10:2751. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02751
2019 Dec
Acute thiamethoxam toxicity in honeybees is not enhanced by common fungicide and herbicide and lacks stress-induced changes in mRNA splicing.
Sci Rep. 9(1):19196. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55534-8.
2019 Dec
Surpassing the subitizing threshold: appetitive-aversive conditioning improves discrimination of numerosities in honeybees
J Exp Biol. 222(Pt 19). pii: jeb205658. doi: 10.1242/jeb.205658.
2019 Oct
Achieving arithmetic learning in honeybees and examining how individuals learn.
Commun Integr Biol. 12(1):166-170. doi: 10.1080/19420889.2019.1678452
2019 Oct
“Inhibitory learning of phototaxis by honeybees in a passive-avoidance task”
Learning & Memory
2019 Sep 26. 1.3-12. 10.1101/lm.050120.119
An insect’s sense of number.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 23(9):720-722. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.010.
2019 Sep
Honeybees prefer novel insect-pollinated flower shapes over bird-pollinated flower shapes.
Curr Zool. 65(4):457-465. doi: 10.1093/cz/zoy095.
2019 Aug
Bumblebees learn foraging routes through exploitation-exploration cycles
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
2019 Jun
Bumblebees adjust protein and lipid collection rules to the presence of brood
Current Zoology
2019 Jun
Honey bees use absolute rather than relative numerosity rules in number discrimination.
Biology Letters 15:6 20190138. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0138
2019 Jun
Honeybees foraging for numbers.
Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 205(3): 439-450. doi: 10.1007/s00359-019-01344-2.
2019 Jun
Symbolic representation of numerosity by honeybees ( Apis mellifera): matching characters to small quantities.
Proc Biol Sci. 2019 286(1904):20190238. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0238
2019 Jun
Thymol Affects Congruency Between Olfactory and Gustatory Stimuli in Bees.
Scientific Reports
2019 May 10.1038/s41598-019-43614-8.
Honey bees increase their foraging performance and frequency of pollen trips through experience.
Scientific Reports. 9:6778.
2019 Apr
Foraging experiences durably modulate honey bees' sucrose responsiveness and antennal lobe biogenic amine levels.
Scientific Reports 9(1):5393. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41624-0
2019 Apr
The central complex as a potential substrate for vector based navigation.
Frontiers in Psychology. 10:690.
2019 Mar
Pheromone-induced accuracy of nestmate recognition in carpenter ants: simultaneous decrease of Type I and Type II errors.
American Naturalist 193(2):267-278. doi: 10.1086/701123
2019 Feb
Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction.
Science Advances 5(2):eaav0961. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0961. eCollection 2019 Feb.
2019 Feb
Changes in responsiveness to allatostatin treatment accompany shifts in stress reactivity in young worker honey bees.
J Comp Physiol A 205(1):51-59. doi: 10.1007/s00359-018-1302-0.
2019 Feb
A spatial network analysis of resource partitioning between bumblebees foraging on artificial flowers in a flight cage.
Movement Ecology. 7:4.
2019 Jan
A vector-based approach to measure nutritional trade-offs within and between species.
American Naturalist
2018 Dec in press
Cultural flies: Conformist social learning in fruitflies predicts long-lasting mate-choice traditions
Science
2018 Nov Vol. 362, Issue 6418, pp. 1025-1030, DOI: 10.1126/science.aat1590.
Aminergic neuromodulation of associative visual learning in harnessed honey bees.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory pii: S1074-7427(18)30125-4. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.05.014.
2018 Nov
Exploring interactions between the gut microbiota and social behaviour through nutrition
Genes 9:534
2018 Oct
The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis
Philosophical Transactions B
2018 Sep 373:20170281
Mate copying in Drosophila melanogaster males
Animal Behaviour
2018 Sep 141:9-15.
Mate-copying for a costly variant in Drosophila melanogaster females.
Behavioral Ecology
2018 Sep 29(5), 1150-1156.
Individual size as determinant of sugar responsiveness in ants.
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 72: 162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2581-8.
2018 Aug
Seasonality, alarm pheromone and serotonin: insights on the neurobiology of honeybee defence from winter bees.
Biology Letters 14(8). pii: 20180337. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0337.
2018 Aug
Does Holistic Processing Require a Large Brain? Insights From Honeybees and Wasps in Fine Visual Recognition Tasks.
Front Psychol. 9:1313. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01313. eCollection 2018.
2018 Jul
Transfer of visual learning between a virtual and a real environment in honey bees: the role of active vision.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12:139. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00139.
2018 Jul
Can honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers?
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 14). pii: jeb180844. doi: 10.1242/jeb.180844.
2018 Jul
Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees
Science 360:1124-1126
2018 Jun
A theoretical exploration of dietary collective medication in social insects
Journal of Insect Physiology
2018 Jun 106:78-87
Automated monitoring of livestock behavior using frequency-modulated continuous-wave radars
Progresses in Eclectromagnetics Research M
2018 Jun 69:151-160
Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees.
Science 360(6393):1124-1126. doi: 10.1126/science.aar4975.
2018 Jun
Social nutrition: an emerging field in insect science
Current Opinion in Insect Science
2018 May 28:73-80
Lateralization of sucrose responsiveness and non-associative learning in honeybees.
Frontiers in Psychology 9:425. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00425
2018 Mar
Pheromones modulate responsiveness to noxious stimuli in honey bees.
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 5) doi: 10.1242/jeb.172270
2018 Mar
Differential processing by two olfactory subsystems in the honeybee brain.
Neuroscience 74:33-48. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.01.029
2018 Mar
Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honeybee brain.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences 285(1871). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2653.
2018 Jan
Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 8(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19715-1.
2018 Jan
Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 8(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19715-1.
2018 Jan
Gut microbiota modifies olfactory-guided microbial attraction in Drosophila
Current Biology
2017 Sep 27:2397-2404
Do insects have emotions? Some insights from bumblebees
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
2017 Aug 11:157
Inter-individual variability in the foraging behaviour of traplining bumblebees
Scientific Reports
2017 Mar 7:4561
Effects of parasites and pathogens on bee cognition
Ecological Entomology
2017 Mar 42:51-64
Analysing plant-pollinator interactions with spatial movement networks
Ecological Entomology
2017 Mar
Why bees are so vulnerable to environmental stressors
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
2017 Jan 32:268-278
Neuropharmacological manipulation of restrained and free-flying honey bees , Apis mellifera
Journal of Visualized Experiments 117; doi: 10.3791/54695
2016 Dec
Continuous lateral oscillations as a core mechanism for taxis in Drosophila larvae
eLife 2016;5:e15504
2016 Dec
Collective foraging in spatially complex nutritional environments
Philosophical Transactions B
2016 Dec
Commentary: Do bees play the producer-scrounger game?
Frontiers in Psychology. 7:1355.
2016 Sep
Subsocial cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea mate indiscriminately with kin despite high costs of inbreeding.
Plos One
2016 Sep
Olfactory experience shapes the evaluation of odour similarity in ants: a behavioural and computational analysis
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283: 20160551. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0551
2016 Aug
Absence of food alternatives promotes risk-prone feeding of unpalatable substances in honey bees
Scientific Reports 6:31809, DOI: 10.1038/srep31809
2016 Aug
Prolonged effects of in-hive monoterpenoids on the honey bee Apis mellifera.
Ecotoxicology 25(5):856-62. doi: 10.1007/s10646-016-1642-x
2016 Jul
Signatures of a globally optimal searching strategy in the three-dimensional flights of bumblebees.
Scientific Reports. 6:30401.
2016 Jul
Monoterpenoid-based preparations in beehives affect learning, memory and gene expression in the bee brain
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (doi: 10.1002/etc.3527
2016 Jun
Kin discrimination increases with odour distance in the German cockroach.
Behavioral Ecology doi:10.1093/beheco/arw099
2016 Jun
Drosophila females trade off good nutrition with high quality oviposition sites when choosing foods.
Journal of Experimental Biology 219:2514-2524
2016 Jun
Evidence of trapline foraging in honeybees.
Journal of Experimental Biology 219:2426-2429
2016 Jun
Monitoring visitation networks and interactions between pairs of bumble bees in a large outdoor flight cage
PLoS One. 11:e0150844
2016 Mar
Collective selection of food patches in Drosophila.
Journal of Experimental Biology 219:668-675
2016 Feb
Adaptive collective foraging in groups with conflicting nutritional needs
Royal Society Open Sceince 3:150638
2016 Jan
Social network analyses and nutritional behavior: An integrated modeling approach
Frontiers in Psychology 7:18.
2016 Jan
Behavioural microbiomics: a multi-dimensional approach to microbial influence on behaviour
Frontiers in Microbiology. 6:1359.
2015 Dec
Neural substrate for higher-order learning in an insect: Mushroom bodies are necessary for configural discriminations
PNAS
2015 Oct vol. 112 no. 43 E5854-E5862
An overlooked consequence of dietary mixing: a varied diet reduces inter-individual variance in fitness.
American Naturalist. 186:649-659.
2015 Jul
Effect of a thymol application on olfactory memory and gene expression levels in the brain of the honeybee Apis mellifera
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
2015 Jun
Sexual Dimorphism and Phenotypic Plasticity in the Antennal Lobe of a Stingless Bee, Melipona scutellaris
J Comp Neurol.
2015 Apr doi: 10.1002/cne.23744.
Differential Combinatorial Coding of Pheromones in Two Olfactory Subsystems of the Honey Bee Brain
The Journal of Neuroscience
2015 Mar 35(10): 4157-4167; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0734-14
Odourant dominance in olfactory mixture processing: what makes a strong odourant?
Proc Biol Sci.
2015 Mar 7;282(1802). pii: 20142562. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2562
Information transfer beyond the waggle dance: observational learning in bees and flies
Front. Ecol. Evol.
2015 Mar 3:24. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00024
Learning and cognition in insects
WIREs Cognitive Science
2015 Mar Volume 6, Issue 4, pages 383–395, doi: 10.1002/wcs.1348
The scent ofmixtures: rules of odour processing in ants
Sci. Rep
2015 Mar 5, 8659; DOI:10.1038/srep08659
Evolving nutritional strategies in the presence of competition: a geometric agent-based model.
PLoS Computational Biology. 11:e1004111.
2015 Mar
Information transfer beyond the waggle dance: observational learning in bees and flies.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3: Article 24.
2015 Feb
Learning context modulates aversive taste strength in honey bees
The Journal of Experimental Biology
2015 Jan 218, 949-959, doi:10.1242/jeb.117333
Nutritional ecology beyond the individual: a conceptual framework for integrating nutrition and social interactions.
Ecology Letters. 18:273-286.
2015 Jan
Recent advances in the integrative nutrition of arthropods.
Annual Review of Entomology. 60:293-311.
2015 Jan
"Odor coding in the lateral horn of an insect"
Current Biology
2014 Mar 24(5) p. 561-567
Higher-order discrimination learning by honey bees in a virtual environment
bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/403956.
T Individual size as determinant of sugar responsiveness in ants.
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology
Seasonality, alarm pheromone and serotonin: insights on the neurobiology of honeybee defence from winter bees.
Biology Letters 14(8). pii: 20180337.
Transfer of visual learning between a virtual and a real environment in honey bees: the role of active vision.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12:139.
Can honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers?
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 14). pii: jeb180844. doi: 10.1242/jeb.180844.
Aminergic neuromodulation of associative visual learning in harnessed honey bees.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory pii: S1074-7427(18)30125-4. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.05.014.
Lateralization of sucrose responsiveness and non-associative learning in honeybees.
Frontiers in Psychology 9:425. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00425
A tyrosine-hydroxylase characterization of dopaminergic neurons in the honey bee brain
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 11:47. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2017.00047.
Pheromones modulate responsiveness to noxious stimuli in honey bees.
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 5) doi: 10.1242/jeb.172270.
Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honeybee brain.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences 285(1871). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2653
Differential processing by two olfactory subsystems in the honeybee brain.
Neuroscience 74:33-48. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.01.029
Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 8(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19715-1.
Aversive learning of odor-heat associations in ants.
Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 4661-4668. doi: 10.1242/jeb.161737.
Higher iridescent-to-pigment optical effect in flowers facilitates learning, memory and generalisation in foraging bumblebees.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences 284: 20171097. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1097
Associative visual learning by tethered bees in a controlled visual environment.
Scientific Reports 7: 12903. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12631-w 1
Using virtual reality to study visual performances of honeybees.
Current Opinion in Insect Science, 24:43-50 doi:10.1016/j.cois.2017.08.003
Pheromones modulate reward responsiveness and non-associative learning in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 7(1):9875. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-10113-7.
Olfactory learning without the mushroom bodies: spiking neural network models of the honeybee lateral antennal lobe tract reveal its capacities in odour memory tasks of varied complexities.
PLoS Computational Biology 13(6):e1005551. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005551
Cognitive adaptation in asexual and sexual wasps living in contrasted environments.
PLoS One 12(5): e0177581. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177581
Information certainty determines social and private information use in ants.
Scientific Reports 7: 43697. 10.1038/srep43607.
Transfer of visual learning between a virtual and a real environment in honey bees: the role of active vision.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12:139.
Can honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers?
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 14). pii: jeb180844. doi: 10.1242/jeb.180844.
Aminergic neuromodulation of associative visual learning in harnessed honey bees.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory pii: S1074-7427(18)30125-4. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.05.014.
Differential processing by two olfactory subsystems in the honeybee brain.
Neuroscience 74:33-48. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.01.029
Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 8(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19715-1.