Costa CP, Machado CAS, Francoy TM. Assessment of genetic diversity and population structure of Eulaema nigrita (Euglossini, Hymenoptera, Apidae) as a factor of local abundance and habitat type in Brazilian Atlantic Forest fragments. The Canadian Entomologist. (Accepted).
Costa CP, Fisher K, Guillén BM*, Bloch G, Yamanaka N, Woodard SH. 2021. Maternal and sibling influences on worker development and performance in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens. BMC Ecology and Evolution 21: 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01756-2 *Indicates Undergraduate Author
2020
Agostini JC, Costa CP, Ferreira JT, Dias AC, Guerra NP, Simões ZLP, Lourenço AP. 2020. Vitellogenin of the solitary bees Centris tarsata and Centris analis (Hymenoptera: Apidae): cDNA structural analysis and gene expression. Apidologie. (In press) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-020-00818-6 Costa CP, Machado CAS, Santiago WMS, Dallacqua RP, Garofalo CA, Francoy TM. 2020. Biome variation, not distance between populations, explains morphological variability in the orchid bee Eulaema nigrita (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini). Apidologie 51: 984-996. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-020-00776-z
Costa CP, Duennes M, Fisher K, Der JP, Watrous KM, Yamanaka N, Okamoto N, Woodard SH. 2020. Transcriptome analysis reveals nutrition- and age-related patterns of gene expression in the fat body of pre-overwintering bumble bee queens. Molecular Ecology 29(4): 720-737. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15361
2018
Machado CAS*, Costa CP*, Francoy TM. 2018. Different physiognomies and their relationship with the structure of Euglossini bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) communities. Sociobiology 65(3): 471-481. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v65i3.2718 *co-first author
Moretti CJ, Costa CP, Francoy TM. 2018. Wing morphometrics reveals the migration patterns of Africanized honey bees in Northeast Brazil. Sociobiology 65(4): 679-685. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v65i4.3403
2017
Costa CP, Francoy TM. 2017. The impact of different phytophysiognomies on the composition of Orchid Bee communities (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 110(3): 255-262. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saw089
2016
Costa CP, Elias-Neto M, Falcon T, Dallacqua RP, Martins JR, Bitondi MMG. 2016. RNAi-mediated functional analysis of Bursicon genes related to adult cuticle formation and tanning in the Honeybee, Apis mellifera. Plos One 11 (e0167421). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167421
In the works...
Watrous KM, Costa CP, Diaz YR*, Woodard SH. Flexibility in the critical period of nutrient sequestration in bumble bee queens. (In revision). *Indicates Undergraduate Author
Costa CP, Machado CAS, Francoy TM. Assessment of genetic diversity and population structure of Eulaema nigrita (Euglossini, Hymenoptera, Apidae) as a factor of local abundance and habitat type in Brazilian Atlantic Forest fragments. (In revision). Costa CP, Harpur BA, Zayed A, Francoy TM. Effects of distinct phytophysiognomies on the genetic structure of populations of Euglossa cordata (Euglossini, Hymenoptera, Apidae) in the state of São Paulo. (In prep).