Marco Salvemini

This paper demonstrates that simultaneous silencing of intestinal nucleases and a vital gene via dsRNA feeding significantly improves RNAi efficiency and mortality in Mediterranean fruit fly adults.

This paper presents the de novo genome and transcriptome of the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus, providing comprehensive genomic resources for evolutionary and functional studies.

The paper identifies a Y-linked gene, MoY, essential for male sex determination in medflies and shows its conservation across multiple fruit fly species, enabling potential genetic control strategies.

The paper confirms a positive selection signal at the ABCA12 gene in Europeans and East-Asians and refines its genomic location, finding no direct effect on gene expression but tracing the T allele's trajectory in human history.

The paper identifies sex determination genes in sand flies using genomics and transcriptomics, proposes a model for their sex determination cascade, and characterizes a novel transformer homolog.

This paper demonstrates efficient CRISPR-Cas9-based gene disruption in the medfly using RNPs, achieving high germline transmission and mutant phenotypes.