Alessandro Zito

The paper introduces Hubbell regression to estimate biodiversity descriptors and finds actual evapotranspiration is the largest predictor of arthropod diversity, with human activity reducing insect richness in tropical and dry zones.

The paper identifies genomic scars from alternative end joining and single-strand annealing across multiple cancer types, revealing their association with HR deficiency and local genomic features.

This study compares taxonomic classification methods for DNA barcoding, finding that phylogenetic placement methods excel for arthropod COI barcodes while composition-based classifiers perform better for fungal ITS.