Dr. Walter Farina
Profesor Titular, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biologia Experimental FCEN, UBA.
Investigador Superior CONICET
2021
Estravis Barcala MC, Sáez A, Graziani M, Negri P, Viel M, Farina WM (2021). Evaluating honey bee foraging behaviour and their impact on pollination success in a mixed almond orchard. Apidologie https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-021-00872-8
Estravis Barcala MC, Palottini F, Macri I, Nery D, Farina WM (2021). Managed honeybees and South American bumblebees exhibit complementary foraging patterns in highbush blueberry. Scientific Reports, 11, 8187 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87729-3
Marchi IL, Palottini F, Farina WM (2021). Combined secondary compounds naturally found in nectars enhance honeybee cognition and survival. Journal of Experimental Biology (2021) 224, jeb.239616 doi: 10.1242/jeb.239616
Macri IN, Vázquez DE, Pagano EA, Zavala JA, Farina WM (2021). Evaluating the impact of post-emergence weed control in honeybee colonies located in different agricultural surroundings. Insects (2021) 12(2), pp. 1–18, 163; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12020163
Arenas A, Lajad R, Peng T, Grüter C, Farina WM (2021). Correlation between octopaminergic signaling and foraging task specialization in honey bees. Gene, Brain and Behavior, 2021, 20(4), e12718, https://doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12718
2020
Farina WM, Arenas A, Diaz PC, Susic Martin C, Estravis Barcala MC. (2020). Learning of a mimic odor within honey bee hives improves pollination service efficiency in a commercial crop. Current Biology, 30, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.018
Nery D, Palottini F, Farina WM (2020). Classical olfactory conditioning promotes long term memory and improves odor-cued flight orientation in the South American native bumblebee Bombus pauloensis. Current Zoology, zoaa073, https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa073.
Balbuena MS, Farina WM (2020). Chemosensory reception in the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula, Journal of Insect Physiology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2020.104076
Vázquez DE, Balbuena MS, Chaves F, Gora J, Menzel R Farina WM (2020). Sleep in honey bees is affected by the herbicide glyphosate. Scientific Reports, 10 (1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67477-6
Vázquez D, Farina WM (2020). Differences in pre-imaginal development of the honey bee Apis mellifera between in vitro and in-hive contexts. Apidologie. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-020-00767-0
Vázquez D, Latorre-Estivalis JM, Ons S, Farina WM (2020). Chronic exposure to glyphosate induces transcriptional changes in honey bee larva: a toxicogenomic study. Environmental Pollution, 261, 114148 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114148
2019
Hrncir M, Maia-Silva C, Farina WM (2019). Honey bee workers generate low-frequency vibrations that are reliable indicators of their activity level. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 205:79-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-018-1305-x
Gatica Hernández I, Palottini F, Macri I, Galmarini CR, Farina WM (2019). Appetitive behavior of the honey bee Apis mellifera L. in response to phenolic compounds naturally found in nectars. Journal of Experimental Biology 222, jeb189910. doi:10.1242/jeb.189910
Balbuena MS, González A, Farina WM (2019). Characterizing honeybee cuticular hydrocarbons during foraging. Sociobiology 66(1): DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v66i1.2977
Farina WM, Balbuena MS, Herbert LH, Mengoni Goñalons C, Vazquez DE (2019). Effects of the herbicide glyphosate on honey bee sensory and cognitive abilities: individual impairments with implications for the hive. Insects, 10(10), 354; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10100354
Estravis Barcala MC, Palottini F, Farina WM (2019) Honey bee and native solitary bee foraging behavior in a crop with dimorphic parental lines. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0223865. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.po
2018
Balbuena MS, González A, Farina WM (2018). Characterization of cuticular hydrocarbons according to colony duties in the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula. Apidologie 49:185–195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-017-0539-x
Grosso JP, Barneto J, Velarde RA, Pagano EA, Zabala JA, Farina WM (2018). An early sensitive period induces long-lasting plasticity in the honey bee nervous system. Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciences 12:11. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00011
Palottini F, Estravis Barcala MC, Farina WM (2018). Odor learning in classical conditioning of proboscis extension in the South American native bumblebee Bombus atratus (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Frontiers in Psychology. 9:603.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00603
Moauro MA, Balbuena MS, Farina WM (2018) Assessment of appetitive behavior in honeybee dance followers. Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciences 12:74.doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00074
Mengoni Goñalons C, Farina WM (2018). Impaired associative learning after chronic exposure to pesticides in young adult honey bees. Journal of Experimental Biology 221, jeb176644. doi:10.1242/jeb.176644
Vázquez DE, Ilina N, Pagano EA, Zavala JA, Farina WM (2018). Glyphosate affects the larval development of honey bees depending on the susceptibility of colonies. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205074. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0205074