Umberto Palatini

The paper identifies convergent gene losses and expression changes associated with blood-feeding loss in non-blood-feeding mosquitoes.

This study shows that Aedes albopictus adapts to thermal selection through changes in fitness, metabolism, and gene expression, with some traits persisting even after selection is relaxed.

The paper identifies MOSN, a novel sex-specifically spliced neuronal gene in Aedes aegypti, conserved in other mosquito species but absent in Drosophila, with distinct protein isoforms and a duplicated domain.

The paper examines DENV infection in Aedes aegypti mosquito brains and finds minimal transcriptional response despite productive viral replication.

The paper presents a single-nucleus RNA sequencing atlas of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, identifying novel cell types and sexual dimorphism in gene expression across tissues.

This study challenges the assumed antiviral role of Vago genes in Aedes aegypti by showing that VLG-1 has a modest proviral effect during DENV and ZIKV infections.

The paper analyzes the virome and nrEVEome diversity in Aedes albopictus mosquitoes from La Reunion Island and China, identifying novel viral integrations and interactions with piRNA and siRNA pathways.

The paper describes a bioinformatic framework to annotate Endogenous Viral Elements in genomes and identify sample-specific viral integrations using whole-genome sequencing data.

The paper presents an improved genome assembly of Aedes albopictus, revealing new biological features and enabling population and developmental studies.

The paper identifies abundant viral integrations in Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus genomes that express piRNAs, suggesting a functional link to the piRNA pathway and antiviral defense.