Francesco Baldini

This study validates the Polovodova method for mosquito age-grading, finding high accuracy for parity but declining precision for later gonotrophic cycles in both lab and field settings.

This study characterizes a new Anopheles funestus colony (FUTAZ) established in Tanzania, comparing its fitness traits and genetic markers to wild and existing colonies.

The paper surveys Scottish wetland mosquitoes to confirm the presence of Culex molestus and hybrids, and identifies environmental drivers of mosquito abundance and distribution.

The paper examines how urbanisation affects avian malaria in juvenile songbirds, finding that earlier hatching reduces infection risk and urban effects arise from phenological differences.

This study evaluates the effects of Metarhizium fungal infection on Anopheles coluzzii larvae and adults, showing reduced survival and cross-stage maternal effects.

The paper discovers knock-down resistance (kdr) mutations in Anopheles funestus, a major malaria vector, showing resistance to DDT but not deltamethrin.

This paper uses mid-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning to accurately estimate the sex and age of tsetse flies, offering a fast and reliable alternative to current labor-intensive methods.

This study improves mosquito age prediction from mid-infrared spectra using transfer learning and dimensionality reduction, achieving high accuracy across different populations.

This paper uses mid-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning to accurately predict malaria mosquito species and age structure, offering a fast and cost-effective alternative to traditional methods.