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Patrizia d'Ettorre

Patrizia d'Ettorre

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
6876
World Ranking
5331
National Ranking
233

Overview

Patrizia d'Ettorre is affiliated with Paris 13 University in France and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research work is notably focused on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Sensory Systems.

The main topics covered by d'Ettorre's research include:

  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

Among the recent scientific papers associated with Patrizia d'Ettorre are the following:

  • "Pheromone components affect motivation and induce persistent modulation of associative learning and memory in honey bees" (2020), published in Communications Biology
  • "Regulation of Ant Foraging: A Review of the Role of Information Use and Personality" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Ants detect cancer cells through volatile organic compounds" (2022), published in iScience
  • "A small number of workers with specific personality traits perform tool use in ants" (2020), published in eLife
  • "Trail-pheromone modulates subjective reward evaluation in Argentine ants" (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Biology

Frequent coauthors found in d'Ettorre's publications include:

  • Chloé Leroy
  • Jean-Christophe Sandoz
  • Baptiste Piqueret
  • Martín Giurfa
  • David Baracchi

The scientist's work appears often in these publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Best Publications

  • Chemical ecology and social parasitism in ants.

    A. Lenoir;P. D'Ettorre;C. Errard;A. Hefetz

  • Nestmate recognition in social insects and the role of hydrocarbons

    Jelle Stijn van Zweden;Patrizia D'Ettorre

  • Conserved class of queen pheromones stops social insect workers from reproducing.

    Annette Van Oystaeyen;Ricardo Caliari Oliveira;Luke Holman;Jelle S. van Zweden

  • Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility.

    Luke Holman;Charlotte G. Jørgensen;John Nielsen;Patrizia d'Ettorre

  • Ants recognize foes and not friends

    Fernando J. Guerrieri;Volker Nehring;Charlotte G. Jørgensen;John Nielsen

  • Does she smell like a queen? Chemoreception of a cuticular hydrocarbon signal in the ant Pachycondyla inversa.

    Patrizia D'Ettorre;Jürgen Heinze;Claudia Schulz;Wittko Francke

  • Sick ants become unsociable

    N. Bos;T. Lefèvre;A. B. Jensen;P. D’Ettorre;P. D’Ettorre

  • The evolution of invasiveness in garden ants.

    Sylvia Cremer;Sylvia Cremer;Line V. Ugelvig;Line V. Ugelvig;Falko P. Drijfhout;Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner

  • Individual Recognition in Ant Queens

    Patrizia D'Ettorre;Jürgen Heinze

  • Sociobiology of slave-making ants

    P. D’Ettorre;J. Heinze

  • Blending of heritable recognition cues among ant nestmates creates distinct colony gestalt odours but prevents within‐colony nepotism

    J. S. Van Zweden;J. B. Brask;J. H. Christensen;J. J. Boomsma

  • Disentangling environmental and heritable nestmate recognition cues in a carpenter ant.

    Jelle S. van Zweden;Stephanie Dreier;Patrizia d’Ettorre

  • Sociobiology of communication : an interdisciplinary perspective

    Patrizia d'Ettorre;David P. Hughes

  • Blending in with the crowd: social parasites integrate into their host colonies using a flexible chemical signature.

    P D'Ettorre;N Mondy;A Lenoir;C Errard

  • Worker policing by egg eating in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla inversa

    Patrizia D'Ettorre;Jürgen Heinze;Francis L. W. Ratnieks

  • Associative learning in ants: conditioning of the maxilla-labium extension response in Camponotus aethiops.

    Fernando J. Guerrieri;Patrizia d’Ettorre

  • Wax combs mediate nestmate recognition by guard honeybees

    Patrizia D'ettorre;Tom Wenseleers;Jenny Dawson;Stuart Hutchinson

  • Recognition of Social Identity in Ants

    Nick Bos;Patrizia d'Ettorre

  • Sneak in or repel your enemy: Dufour's gland repellent as a strategy for successful usurpation in the slave-maker Polyergus rufescens

    Patrizia D'Ettorre;Christine Errard;Fernando Ibarra;Wittko Francke

  • Honest and dishonest communication in social Hymenoptera.

    J. Heinze;P. d'Ettorre

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Heinze
Jürgen Heinze University of Regensburg
Martin Giurfa
Martin Giurfa Sorbonne University
Jacobus J. Boomsma
Jacobus J. Boomsma University of Copenhagen
Timothy A. Linksvayer
Timothy A. Linksvayer Arizona State University
Liselotte Sundström
Liselotte Sundström University of Helsinki
Geoffrey M. While
Geoffrey M. While University of Tasmania
Tobias Uller
Tobias Uller Lund University
Johan Billen
Johan Billen KU Leuven
Jocelyn G. Millar
Jocelyn G. Millar University of California, Riverside

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