Priscila Santos

Priscila Santos is a Research Fellow at the Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences, Utah State University. Her research focuses on entomology, evolutionary biology, and genomics, particularly examining social and solitary bee behavior, diapause mechanisms, and mitochondrial evolution.

Her work explores the genetic regulation of diapause, Wolbachia symbiosis in bee populations, and evolution of eusociality in insects. Recent studies analyze RNA-Seq data to understand gene expression patterns in bee development and mitochondrial genome dynamics across bee species.

Google Scholar publications reveal trends in bee genomics, molecular ecology, and evolutionary adaptations such as lifespan extension and developmental timing. These studies span non-social Neotropical bees to social bumblebee colonies, with methodologies including population genetics, transcriptomic analysis, and mitochondrial sequencing.