Publications

Sandeep, S., Perring, T. M., Jeon, S.-J., Huang, H., Xu, W., Islamovic, E., Sharma, B., Giraldo, Y. M. and J. P. Giraldo. Nanocarrier mediated delivery of insecticides into tarsi enhances stink bug mortality. Nature Communications. accepted.

Pae*, H., Liao*, J., Yuen, N., and Giraldo, Y. M. 2024. Drosophila require both green and UV wavelengths for sun orientation but lack a time-compensated sun compass. Journal of Experimental Biology. 227 (19): jeb246817. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246817

Warren, T.M., Giraldo, Y.M., and M. H. Dickinson. 2019. Celestial navigation in Drosophila.  Journal of Experimental Biology. 222: jeb186148. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.186148

Giraldo, Y.M. and J.F.A. Traniello  2018. Book review: The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life. Edited by Richard P. Shefferson, Owen R. Jones, and Roberto Salguero-Gómez. Quarterly Review of Biology. 93 (4): 376-377.  

Giraldo, Y.M., Leitch, K. J., Ros, I. G., Warren, T. L., Weir, P. T., and M. H. Dickinson. 2018. Sun navigation requires compass neurons in Drosophila. Current Biology. 28 (17): P2845-2852.E4. DOI: DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.002

Giraldo, Y.M., Rusakov, A.*, Diloreto, A.*, Kordek, A.*, and J.F.A. Traniello. 2016. Age, worksite location, neuromodulators, and task performance in the ant Pheidole dentata. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 70: 1441-1445. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2153-8

Giraldo, Y.M., Kamhi, J.F., Fourcassié, V., Moreau, M., Robson, S.K.A., Rusakov, A.*, Wimberly, L.*, Diloreto, A.*, Kordek, A.*, and J.F.A. Traniello. 2016. Lifespan behavioral and neural resilience in a social insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283 (1822): 20152603. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2603

Giraldo, Y.M. and J.F.A. Traniello. 2014. Worker senescence and the sociobiology of aging in ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 68 (12): 1901-1919. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1826-4

Giraldo, Y.M., Patel, E.*, Gronenberg, W., and J.F.A. Traniello. 2013. Division of labor and structural plasticity in an extrinsic serotonergic mushroom body neuron in the ant Pheidole dentata. Neuroscience Letters. 534: 107-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.057

Russell, J.A., Funaro, C.F., Giraldo, Y.M., Goldman-Huertas, B., Suh, D., Kronauer, D.J.C., Moreau, C.S. and N. E. Pierce. 2012. A veritable menagerie of heritable bacteria from ants, moths, butterflies and beyond. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51027. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051027

Milton, Y.* and Kaspari, M. 2007. Bottom-up and top-down regulation of decomposition in a tropical forest. Oecologia 153: 163-172.  DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0710-6

* undergraduate student                                                       

** maiden name for Ysabel Giraldo