Adele BordoniUniversity of Bologna | UNIBO
Adele Bordoni
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• The abandonment of agricultural land and the afforestation of grassland habitats represent major threats for butterflies in European and Mediterranean areas. A crucial goal for Lepidoptera conservation is to maintain and/or restore habitat quality by targeted management. Nevertheless, there are few experimental studies allowing to derive data‐dri...
The significant risk of disease transmission has selected for effective immune-defense strategies in insect societies. Division of labour, with individuals specialized in immunity-related tasks, strongly contributes to prevent the spread of diseases. A trade-off, however, may exist between phenotypic specialization to increase task efficiency and m...
Populations inhabiting Mediterranean islands often show contrasting genetic lineages, even on islands that were connected to the mainland during glacial maxima. This pattern is generated by forces acting in historical and contemporary times. Understanding these phenomena requires comparative studies integrating genetic structure, functional traits...
Like vertebrates, invertebrates evolved acquired immunity based on memory-like mechanisms, known as immunization. Immunization and its transmission among individuals are phylogenetically ancestral and conserved characters that have been reported in different insect orders. Physiological mechanisms are still largely unknown, and the high variability...
Stingless bees often associate with termites, while association with ants is uncommon due to the high costs related to the aggressiveness of ants. Few combative genera of stingless bees can associate with a larger number of hosts, including ants. Here, we describe for the first time the association between a stingless bee (Partamona testacea) and t...
Nest architecture is a fundamental character shaping immune strategies of social insects. The arboreal ant Temnothorax unifasciatus nests in cavities such as oak galls where the entire colony lives in a unique small chamber. In these conditions, physiological and behavioural strategies likely prevail over compartmentalisation and are presumably tun...
This poster was presented at the Apimondia 2019 in Montreal. Opinions and discussions are welcome, but the poster won't be changed anymore as it was already presented.
To those of you who wanted the file of the chapter on the same topic: we're not allowed to share it, I'm sorry. By some reason, I can't send messages with the decline.
Understanding host plant preference and the relative quality of resource provided by co-occurring host plants is a key step to predict butterfly species abundance and responses to environmental changes, and, consequently, to plan management measures. Zerynthia cassandra is an Italian endemic species strongly dependent on the availability of its hos...
In the study area, in the lands of the NGO Urku Estudios Amazónicos (Tarapoto, Perù), colonies of bullet ant (Partamona testacea) have been found in association with the stingless bee Paraponera clavata. This association appears to be very strict suggesting fot the bee the obligate fundation with ants, at least locally. We studied the behavioural i...
Trans-generational immunization is defined as the transmission of an enhanced resistance to a pathogen from parents to offspring. By using the host-parasite system of the ant Crematogaster scutellaris and the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae, we describe this phenomenon for the first time in ants. We exposed four groups of hibernating...
Social insects react to stress at both the individual and colonial level by modifying their physiology, behavior, offspring morphology, and colonial productivity. Experimental protocols involve treatments that potentially increase the stress load and may lead to misleading conclusions if not appropriately evaluated. We examined the long-term conseq...
Long-term assessment reveals the hidden and hiding effects of experimental stress on ant colonies
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This project is aimed to study different aspects of social immunity in social insects using an integrated approach. This research represent the basis of my PhD studies, and different species are used as model, ranging from Honey bees to ants. Behavioural, physiological and chemical strategies against pathogens and parasites have been studied using classical and molecular approaches.
