Paula Rozo-López

The paper studies the evolution of densoviral endogenous elements in aphids, finding lineage-specific variation and evidence for both vertical and horizontal transmission.

The paper identifies widespread heritable iflaviruses in aphids, showing they are transmitted vertically and co-localize with bacterial symbionts in bacteriocytes.

The paper presents a new draft genome of Aulacorthum solani, correcting contamination in the existing genome and providing functional annotations for most predicted genes.

The paper identifies an endogenous viral element in the potato aphid genome, showing that RNAseq can misidentify viruses due to homology with transcribed elements.