Publications

Wizenberg SB, Pepinelli M, Do BN, Moubony M, Tamashekan D, Conflitti IM, and Zayed A, in review. Inferring plant community phenology via bee-collected pollen. Environmental DNA.

Tiwari T, Brenman-Suttner D, Kent CF, Rose S, Patel H, Conflitti IM, and Zayed A, in review. Studying the genomics of behavior in the genomics era. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 3rd Edition, Elsevier (invited chapter).

McAfee A, Alavi-Shoushtari N, Labuschagne R, Tran L, Common J, Higo H, Pernal SF, Giovenazzo P, Hoover SE, Guzman-Novoa E, Currie RW, Wolf Veiga P, French SK, Conflitti IM, Pepinelli M, Borges D, Walsh EM, Bishop CA, Zayed A, Duffe J, Guarna MM, and Foster LJ, in press. Regional patterns and climatic predictors of viruses in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies over time. Scientific Reports.

Tran L, Lansing L, Cunningham M, Ho J, Deckers T, Newman T, Wu L, Gregoris AS, Zorz J, Muntz L, Lee K, Trepanier-Leroux D, Conflitti IM, Pepinelli M, Walsh EM, Morfin N, Powell JE, Moran N, Hoover SE, Pernal SF, Currie RW, Giovenazzo P, Guzman-Novoa E, Jabbari H, Foster LJ, Zayed A, Ortega Polo R, and Guarna MM, in press. Gut microbiome metagenomic sequences of honey bees (Apis mellifera) exposed to crops. Microbiology Resource Announcements.

Bixby M, French SK, Wizenberg SB, Jamieson A, Pepinelli M, Cunningham MM, Conflitti IM, Foster L, Zayed A, and Guarna MM, 2024. Identifying and modeling the impact of neonicotinoid exposure on honeybee colony profit. Journal of Economic Entomology 117, 2228-2241. view abstract

Dogantzis KA, Patel H, Rose S, Conflitti IM, Dey A, Tiwari T, Chapman NC, Kadri SM, Patch HM, Muli EM, Alqarni AS, Allsopp MH, and Zayed A, 2024. Accurate detection of scutellata-hybrids (Africanized bees) using a SNP-based diagnostic assay. Ecology and Evolution 14, e70554. view abstract

Wizenberg SB, French SK, Newburn LR, Pepinelli M, Conflitti IM, Moubony M, Ritchie C, Jamieson A, Richardson RT, Travas A, Imrit MA, Chihata M, Higo H, Common J, Walsh EM, Bixby M, Guarna MM, Pernal SF, Hoover SE, Currie RW, Giovenazzo P, Guzman-Novoa E, Borges D, Foster LJ, and Zayed A, 2024. Pollen foraging mediates exposure to dichotomous stressor syndromes in honey bees. PNAS Nexus 3, pgae440. view abstract

McAfee A, Alavi-Shoushtari N, Tran L, Labuschagne R, Cunningham M, Tsvetkov N, Common J, Higo H, Pernal SF, Giovenazzo P, Hoover SE, Guzman-Novoa E, Currie RW, Wolf Veiga P, French SK, Conflitti IM, Pepinelli M, Borges D, Walsh EM, Bishop CA, Zayed A, Duffe J, Foster LJ, and Guarna MM, 2024. Climatic predictors of prominent honey bee (Apis mellifera) disease agents: Varroa destructor, Melissococcus plutonius, and Vairimorpha spp. PLOS Climate 3, e0000485. view abstract

McAfee A, French SK, Wizenberg SB, Newburn LR, Tsvetkov N, Higo H, Common J, Pernal SF, Giovenazzo P, Hoover SE, Guzman-Novoa E, Currie RW, Wolf Veiga P, Conflitti IM, Pepinelli M, Tran L, Zayed A, Guarna MM, and Foster LJ, 2024. Higher prevalence of sacbrood virus in Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies after pollinating highbush blueberries. Journal of Economic Entomology 117, 1324-1335. view abstract

French SK, Pepinelli M, Conflitti IM, Jamieson A, Higo H, Common J, Walsh EM, Bixby M, Guarna MM, Pernal SF, Hoover SE, Currie RW, Giovenazzo P, Guzman-Novoa E, Borges D, Foster LJ, and Zayed A, 2024. Honey bee stressor networks are complex and dependent on crop and region. Current Biology 34, 1-11. view abstract

Dogantzis KA, Raffiudin R, Putra RE, Shaleh I, Conflitti IM, Pepinelli M, Roberts J, Holmes M, Oldroyd BP, Zayed A, and Gloag R, 2024. Post-invasion selection acts on standing genetic variation despite a severe founding bottleneck. Current Biology 34, 1349-1356.e4. view abstract

Wizenberg SB, Newburn LR, Richardson RT, Pepinelli M, Conflitti IM, Moubony M, Borges D, Guarna MM, Guzman-Novoa E, Foster LJ, and Zayed A, 2023. Environmental metagenetics unveil novel plant-pollinator interactions. Ecology and Evolution 13, e10645. view abstract

Wizenberg SB, Newburn LR, Pepinelli M, Conflitti IM, Richardson RT, Hoover SE, Currie RW, Giovenazzo P, and Zayed A, 2023. Validating a multi-locus metabarcoding approach for characterizing mixed-pollen samples collected by honey bees. Plant Methods 19, 120. view abstract

Richardson RT, Conflitti IM, Labuschagne RS, Hoover SE, Currie RW, Giovenazzo P, Guarna MM, Pernal SF, Foster LJ, and Zayed A, 2023. Land use changes associated with declining honey bee health across temperate North America. Environmental Research Letters 18, 064042. view abstract

Conflitti IM, Imrit MA, Morrison B, Sharma S, Colla SR, and Zayed A, 2022. Bees in the six: Determinants of bumblebee habitat quality in urban landscapes. Ecology and Evolution 12, e8667 (publication covered by Toronto Star & other media groups). view abstract

Dogantzis KA, Tiwari T, Conflitti IM, Dey A, Patch HM, Muli EM, Garnery L, Whitfield CW, Stolle E, Alqarni AS, Allsopp MH, and Zayed A, 2021. Thrice out of Asia and the adaptive radiation of the western honey bee. Science Advances 7, eabj2151. view abstract

Kent CF, Tiwari T, Rose S, Patel H, Conflitti IM, and Zayed A, 2019. Studying the genetics of behaviour in the genomics era. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, Volume 2, 223–233 (invited chapter). view abstract

Conflitti IM, Shields GF, Murphy RW, and Currie DC, 2017. Resolving evolutionary relationships in closely related non-model organisms: a case study using chromosomally distinct members of a black fly species complex. Systematic Entomology 42, 489-508. view abstract

Conflitti IM, Shields GF, Murphy RW, and Currie DC, 2015. Genetic panmixia within a narrow contact zone between chromosomally and ecologically distinct black fly sibling species (Diptera: Simuliidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28, 1625-1640. view abstract

Conflitti IM, Shields GF, Murphy RW, and Currie DC, 2015. The speciation continuum: ecological and chromosomal divergence in the Simulium arcticum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 115, 13-27. view abstract

Conflitti IM, Shields GF, Murphy RW, and Currie DC, 2014. The speciation continuum: Population structure, gene flow, and maternal ancestry in the Simulium arcticum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78, 43-55. view abstract

Conflitti IM, Pruess KP, Cywinska A, Powers TO, and Currie DC, 2013. DNA barcoding distinguishes pest species of the black fly genus Cnephia (Diptera: Simuliidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 50, 1250-1260. view abstract

Conflitti IM, Shields GF, and Currie DC, 2012. A "complex" problem: delimiting sibling species boundaries in black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae). The Canadian Entomologist 144, 323-336. view abstract

Conflitti IM, Spironello M, and Currie DC, 2012. Molecular phylogeny of the North American Simulium malyschevi-group species (Diptera: Simuliidae). Systematic Entomology 37, 571-577. view abstract

Davy CM, Conflitti IM, Storisteanu DML, and Murphy RW, 2012. Isolation and characterization of eleven novel polymorphic microsatellite loci in the spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera). Conservation Genetics Resources 4, 759-761. view abstract

Davy CM, Leifso AE, Conflitti IM, and Murphy RW, 2012. Characterization of 10 novel microsatellite loci and cross-amplification of two loci in the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Conservation Genetics Resources 4, 695-698. view abstract

Conflitti IM, Kratochvil MJ, Spironello M, Shields GF, and Currie DC, 2010. Good species behaving badly: Non-monophyly of black fly sibling species in the Simulium arcticum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57, 245-257. view abstract