Serena Aceto

The paper reports the first isolation of Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae from a razorbill, highlighting a new cross-species transmission and zoonotic potential.

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.

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.