Publications

Bixby M, French SK, Wizenberg SB, Jamieson A, Pepinelli M, Cunningham MM, Conflitti IM, Foster L, Zayed A, Guarna MM, in review. Identifying and modeling the impact of neonicotinoid exposure on honeybee colony profit. Journal of Economic Entomology.

McAfee A, French SK, 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, Foster LJ, in review. Higher prevalence of sacbrood virus in highbush blueberry pollination units. Journal of Economic Entomology.

French SK, Pepinelli M, Conflitti IM, Higo H, Common J, Walsh EM, Bixby M, Jamieson A, Guarna MM, Pernal SF, Hoover SE, Currie RW, Giovenazzo P, Guzman-Novoa E, Borges D, Foster LJ, and Zayed A, in press. Honey bee stressors everywhere all at once. Current Biology.

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