*Corresponding author.
Peer-reviewed
1. Vardakas P., Mainardi G., Minaud E., Patalano S., Rebaudo F., Requier F., Steffan-Dewenter I., Hatjina F. (2024). Unveiling beekeepers’ use and preference of precision apiculture systems. Journal of Apicultural Research. DOI: 10.1080/00218839.2024.2355813
2. Kagiali E., Kokoli M., Vardakas P., Goras G., Hatjina F., Patalano S. * (2023). Four-year overview of winter colony losses in Greece: citizen science evidence that transitioning to organic beekeeping practices reduces colony losses. Insects 14 (2), 193. DOI: 10.3390/insects14020193
3. Patalano S.*, Alsina A., Gregorio-Rodriguez C., Bachman M., Dreier S., Hernando-Herraez I., Nana P., Balasubramanian S., Sumner S., Reik W., Rulands S. (2022). Self-organization of plasticity and specialization in a primitively social insect. Cell system. DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2022.08.002
4. COLOSS monitoring group including Patalano S. (2022). Honey bee colony loss rates in 37 countries using the COLOSS survey for winter 2019-2020: the combined effects of operation size, migration and queen replacement Journal of Apicultural Research DOI: 10.1080/00218839.2022.2113329
5. Brodschneider, R., Schlagbauer, J., Arakelyan, I., Patalano, S., et al. (2022). Spatial clusters of Varroa destructor control strategies in Europe. J Pest Sci. DOI: 10.1007/s10340-022-01523-2
6. Galanis A., Vardakas P., Reczko M., Harokopos V., Hatzis P., Skoulakis E.M.C, Pavlopoulos G.A., Patalano S.* (2022). Bee foraging preferences, microbiota and pathogens revealed by direct shotgun metagenomics of honey. Molecular Ecology Resources. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13626
7. Hatjina F., Adjlane N., Charistos L., Raffaele Dall’Olio R., Drazic M.M., Filipi J., Patalano S., and Kezic N. Citizen Scientist Initiative for Measuring Varroa Damage Thresholds: Common Efforts for Data Collection - CSI Varroa. (2021) Bee World TBEE. DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2021.1935611
8. Lengronne T., Mlynski D., Patalano S., Richard J., Keller L., Sumner S. (2021). Multi-level social organization and nest drifting behavior in a eusocial insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0275
9. Cini A., Branconi R., Patalano S., Cervo R., Sumner S. (2020). Behavioural and neurogenomic responses of host workers to social parasite invasion in a social insect. Insect Sociaux (67), 295–308. DOI: 10.1007/s00040-020-00765-6
10. COLOSS monitoring group including Patalano S. (2020). Honey bee colony winter loss rates for 35 countries participating in the COLOSS survey for winter 2018-2019, and the effects of a new queen on the risk of colony winter loss. Journal of Apicultural Research (TJAR) DOI:10.1080/00218839.2020.1797272
11. COLOSS monitoring group including Patalano S. (2019). Loss rates of honey bee colonies during winter 2017/18 in 36 countries participating in the COLOSS survey, including effects of forage sources. Journal of Apicultural Research 58, (4) 479-485. DOI:10.1080/00218839.2019.1615661
12. 14 IUSSI consortium authors including Patalano S. (2017). Deconstructing Superorganisms and Societies to Address Big Question in Biology. TREE 32 (11), 861-872. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.08.004
13. Patalano S.* et al. (+25 authors) (2015). Molecular signatures of plastic phenotypes in two eusocial insect species with simple societies. PNAS 112 (45), 13970 - 13975. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515937112
14. Cini A., Patalano S., Segonds-Pichon A., Bursby G., Cervo R., Sumner S. (2015). Social parasites and the molecular basis of phenotypic evolution. Frontiers in Genetics 6, 32. Joint first authors. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00032
15. Ferreira P.G., Patalano S., Chauhan R., ffrench-Constant R., Gabaldon T., Guigo R. Sumner S. (2013). Transcriptome analyses of primitively eusocial wasps reveal novel insights into the evolution of sociality and the origin of alternative phenotypes. Genome Biology. Feb 26;14(2): R20. 10.1186/gb-2013-14-2-r20
16. Patalano S., Hore T.A., Reik W., and Sumner S. (2012). Shifting behaviour: epigenetic reprogramming in eusocial insects. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 24, 367-73. DOI:10.1016/j.ceb.2012.02.005
17. Lengronne T., Leadbeater E., Patalano S., Dreier S., Field, J., Sumner S., and Laurent K. (2012). Little effect of seasonal constraints on population genetic structure in eusocial paper wasps. Ecology and Evolution 2(10):2615-24. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.366
18. Patalano S., Mihailovich M., Belacortu Y., Paricio N., and Gebauer F. (2009). Dual sex-specific functions of Drosophila Upstream of N-ras in the control of X chromosome dosage compensation. Development 136, 689-698. DOI: 10.1242/dev.027656
19. Abaza I., Coll O., Patalano S., and Gebauer F. (2006). Drosophila UNR is required for translational repression of male-specific lethal 2 mRNA during regulation of X-chromosome dosage compensation. Genes Dev 20, 380-389. DOI: 10.1101/gad.371906
20. Patalano S., Pruliere G., Prodon F., Paix A., Dru P., Sardet C., and Chenevert J. (2006). The aPKC-PAR-6-PAR-3 cell polarity complex localizes to the centrosome attracting body, a macroscopic cortical structure responsible for asymmetric divisions in the early ascidian embryo. Journal of cell science 119, 1592-1603. DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02873