• Age‑performance and intensity of grooming behavior toward Varroa destructor in resistant and susceptible Apis mellifera colonies 

      Russo, Romina Maria; Landi, Lucas; Muntaabski, Irina; Liendo, María Clara; Pietronave, Hernan Pablo; Merke, Julieta; Rodriguez, Graciela Adriana; Palacio, María Alejandra; Basilio, Alicia Mabel; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla (Springer, 2022-10)
      Grooming behavior confers resistance to honey bees against Varroa destructor, being of interest to social immunity studies and breeding programs. The objective of this study was to characterize at the individual level the ...
    • Bacterially expressed dsRNA induces Varroa destructor gene knockdown by honey bee-mediated oral administration 

      Muntaabski, Irina; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla; Liendo, María Clara; Niz, José María; Russo, Romina Maria; Salvador, Ricardo (Taylor and Francis, 2022-02)
      The ectoparasite Varroa destructor causes serious losses of Apis mellifera colonies and negatively impacts the beekeeping industry around the world. New control methods have been proposed based on the RNA interference ...
    • El comportamiento de acicalamiento de Apis mellifera hacia el ácaro Varroa destructor : Bases fenotípicas y genéticas e implicancia sobre la resistencia a la varroosis 

      Russo, Romina Maria (Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2023-08)
      Apis mellifera es un insecto polinizador clave y constituye el mayor productor de miel para consumo humano. Uno de los principales patógenos de las abejas melíferas es el ácaro Varroa destructor. Este ectoparásito generalmente ...
    • Expression analysis of genes putatively associated with hygienic behavior in selected stocks of Apis mellifera L. from Argentina 

      Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla; Mannino, Constanza; Soto, Gabriela Cinthia; Palacio, Marí­a Alejandra; Cladera, Jorge Luis; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz (2017-11)
      Hygienic behavior is an economically beneficial, heritable trait, which has evolved to limit the impact of honeybee pathogens. Selecting and breeding colonies with high levels of hygienic behavior has become a feasible and ...
    • Grooming Behavior in Naturally Varroa-Resistant Apis mellifera Colonies From North-Central Argentina 

      Russo, Romina Maria; Liendo, María Clara; Landi, Lucas; Pietronave, Hernan Pablo; Merke, Julieta; Fain, Hernan Carlos; Muntaabski, Irina; Palacio, María Alejandra; Rodriguez, Graciela Adriana; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla (Frontiers Media, 2020-10-22)
      The Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, is an important species in providing honey and pollination services globally. The mite Varroa destructor is the major threat to A. mellifera, and it is associated with the severe ...
    • El grooming: enemigo de la varroa 

      Russo, Romina Maria; Liendo, María Clara; Landi, Lucas; Pietronave, Hernan Pablo; Merke, Julieta; Muntaabski, Irina; Palacio, María Alejandra; Rodriguez, Graciela Adriana; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla (Sociedad Argentina de Apicultores, 2021-07)
      Una de las enfermedades que mayores pérdidas ocasiona a la industria apícola es la Varroosis, causada por el ácaro Varroa destructor. La selección de colonias por el comportamiento de grooming puede ser una respuesta a ...
    • HBeeID : a molecular tool that identifes honey bee subspecies from diferent geographic populations 

      Donthu, Ravikiran; Marcelino, Jose A. P.; Giordano, Rosanna; Tao, Yudong; Weber, Everett; Avalos, Arian; Band, Mark; Akraiko, Tatsiana; Chen, Shu‑Ching; Reyes, Maria P; Hao, Haiping; Ortiz‑Alvarado, Yarira; Cuf, Charles A.; Pérez Claudio, Eddie; Soto‑Adames, Felipe; Smith‑Pardo, Allan H.; Meikle, William G.; Evans, Jay D.; Giray, Tugrul; Abdelkader, Faten B.; Allsopp, Mike; Ball, Daniel; Morgado, Susana B.; Barjadze, Shalva; Correa‑Benitez, Adriana; Chakir, Amina; Báez, David R.; Chavez, Nabor H. M.; Dalmon, Anne; Douglas, Adrian B.; Fraccica, Carmen; Fernández‑Marín, Hermógenes; Galindo Cardona, Alberto; Guzman‑Novoa, Ernesto; Horsburgh, Robert; Kence, Meral; Kilonzo, Joseph; Kükrer, Mert; Le Conte, Yves; Mazzeo, Gaetana; Mota, Fernando; Muli, Elliud; Oskay, Devrim; Ruiz‑Martínez, José A.; Oliveri, Eugenia; Pichkhaia, Igor; Romane, Abderrahmane; Guillen Sanchez, Cesar; Sikombwa, Evans; Satta, Alberto; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla; Stanford, Brandi; Soroker, Victoria; Velarde, Rodrigo A.; Vercelli, Monica; Huang, Zachary (BioMed Central, 2024-08)
      Background: Honey bees are the principal commercial pollinators. Along with other arthropods, they are increasingly under threat from anthropogenic factors such as the incursion of invasive honey bee subspecies, pathogens ...
    • Individual precocity, temporal persistence, and task-specialization of hygienic bees from selected colonies of apis mellifera 

      Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz; Parreño, María Alejandra; Liendo, María Clara; Cladera, Jorge Luis; Spivak, Marla; Palacio, Marí­a Alejandra (2016)
      Hygienic behaviour is a complex trait that gives Apis mellifera L. resistance against brood diseases. Variability in the expression of hygienic behaviour is evidenced at the colonylevel and is explained by the proportion ...
    • Morphometric and genetic characterization as tools for selection of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) stocks in an area of natural hybridization in Argentina 

      Litvinoff, Leonardo; Menescardi, Francisco; Porrini, Leonardo; Russo, Romina Maria; Liendo, María Clara; Nucci, Alejandro; Lusarreta, Esteban; Ventura, Rocio; Espasadin, Luna; Monmany-Garzia, A. Carolina; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla; Galindo Cardona, Alberto (Frontiers Media, 2023-01)
      Beekeepers around the world select bees’ characteristics that facilitate and favor production. In regions where hybridization among lineages is taking place, this selection is a challenge, given that these regions are ...
    • Stimulus-specific gene expression profiles associated with grooming behavior and Varroa destructor resistance in honey bees 

      Russo, Romina Maria; Pietronave, Hernan Pablo; Conte, Claudia Alejandra; Liendo, María Clara; Basilio, Alicia Mabel; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla (Frontiers Media, 2024-07)
      Grooming behavior is one of the mechanisms of social immunity in Apis mellifera. This behavior has been proposed as an active strategy of honey bees to restrain the population growth of the ectoparasitic mite Varroa ...
    • Temporal changes in volatile profiles of Varroa destructor-infested brood may trigger hygienic behavior in Apis mellifera 

      Liendo, María Clara; Muntaabski, Irina; Russo, Romina Maria; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz; Segura, Diego Fernando; Palacio, María Alejandra; Cladera, Jorge Luis; Fernández, Patricia Carina; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla (Wiley, 2021-03-16)
      Varroa destructor Anderson & Trueman (Acari: Varroidae) is one of the major contributors to the significant losses of western honey bee, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae), colonies worldwide. Hygienic behavior, in ...
    • Varroa destructor parasitism and genetic variability at honey bee (Apis mellifera) drone congregation areas and their associations with environmental variables in Argentina 

      Galindo Cardona, Alberto; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla; Russo, Romina Maria; Escalante, Karen; Geria, Martín; Lepori, Nicolás; Ayup, María Marta; Muntaabski, Irina; Liendo, María Clara; Landi, Lucas; Giray, Tugrul; Monmany-Garzia, A. Carolina (Frontiers Media, 2020-11)
      Varroa destructor is a serious ectoparasite of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, which negatively impacts on colonies health and survival worldwide. Drone-mediated movement and the presence of the mite in Drone ...
    • When african and european lineages meet: The genetic landscape of honey bees in Argentina 

      Avalos, Arian; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla; Monmany Garzia, A. Carolina; Donthu, Ravi Kiran; Marcelino, José; Giordano, Rosanna; Giray, Tugrul; Galindo Cardona, Alberto (Wiley, 2025-09-28)
      Argentina has a complex and diverse landscape of honeybee (Apis mellifera sp.) populations shaped by historic introductions and hybridization between Africanized (AHB) and European (EHB) lineages. While a latitudinal cline ...