Francesca Zacchi

Unrelated helpers in a social insect

David C. Queller, Francesca Zacchi, Rita Cervo et al. · Nature · 2000 · 255 citations

Insect Social Behavior, Behavioral Sciences, Social Behavior +6

Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) invading North America: some hypotheses for its rapid spread

Rita Cervo, Francesca Zacchi, Stefano Turillazzi · Insectes Sociaux · 2000 · 118 citations

Biology, Terrestrial Arthropod, Arthropod Taxonomy +6

Can cuticular lipids provide sufficient information for within–colony nepotism in wasps?

Francesca Romana Dani, Kevin R. Foster, Francesca Zacchi et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2004 · 66 citations

Kin Recognition, Insect Conservation, Genetics +17

Dynamics of chemical mimicry in the social parasite wasp<i>Polistes semenowi</i>(Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

María Cristina Lorenzi, Rita Cervo, Francesca Zacchi et al. · Parasitology · 2004 · 44 citations

Absence of within–colony kin discrimination in behavioural interactions of swarm–founding wasps

Joan E. Strassmann, Ceal Jenifer Klingler, Elisabeth Arévalo et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1997 · 42 citations · Full text

Biology, Behavioral Sciences, Kin Recognition +15