Pubblicazioni

Widespread distribution of chs-1 mutations associated with resistance to diflubenzuron larvicide in Culex pipiens across Italy, reaching virtual fixation in the Venetian lagoon.

2025 - INSECTS

Micocci, M; Pichler, V; Serini, P; Giammarioli, C; Malandruccolo, C; Virgillito, C; Ballardini, M; Lia, Rp; Arnoldi, D; Vettore, S; Bonetto, D; Martini, S; Drago, A; Della Torre, A; Caputo, B.

Urban, Architectural, and Socioeconomic Factors Contributing to the Concentration of Potential Arbovirus VectorsÂ and Arbovirosis in Urban Environments from a One HealthÂ Â Perspective: A Systematic Review

2025 - SUSTAINABILITY

Cofone, Luigi; Sabato, Marise; DI PAOLO, Carolina; Di Giovanni, Stefano; Assunta Donato, Maria; Paglione, Lorenzo

Modelling the seasonal dynamics of Aedes albopictus populations using a spatio-temporal stacked machine learning model

2025 - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Da Re, Daniele; Marini, Giovanni; Bonannella, Carmelo; Laurini, Fabrizio; Manica, Mattia; Anicic, Nikoleta; Albieri, Alessandro; Angelini, Paola; Arnoldi, Daniele; Bertola, Federica; Caputo, Beniamino; De Liberato, Claudio; Della Torre, Alessandra; Flacio, Eleonora; Franceschini, Alessandra; Gradoni, Francesco; Kadriaj, PÃ«rparim; Lencioni, Valeria; Del Lesto, Irene; Russa, Francesco La; Lia, Riccardo Paolo; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Otranto, Domenico; L'Ambert, Gregory; Rizzoli, Annapaola; RombolÃ , Pasquale; Romiti, Federico; Stancher, Gionata; Torina, Alessandra; Velo, Enkelejda; Virgillito, Chiara; Zandonai, Fabiana; RosÃ , Roberto

Transmission-Blocking Strategies for Malaria Eradication: Recent Advances in Small-Molecule Drug Development

2024 - PHARMACEUTICALS

Appetecchia, Federico; Fabbrizi, Emanuele; Fiorentino, Francesco; Consalvi, Sara; Biava, Mariangela; Poce, Giovanna; Rotili, Dante

Homing gene drives can transfer rapidly between Anopheles gambiae strains with minimal carryover of flanking sequences

2024 - NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Pescod, Poppy; Bevivino, Giulia; Anthousi, Amalia; Shepherd, Josephine; Shelton, Ruth; Lombardo, Fabrizio; Nolan, Tony

Barcoding of Italian mosquitoes (BITMO): generation and validation of DNA barcoding reference libraries for native and alien species of Culicidae

2024 - PARASITES & VECTORS

Bisaglia, Beatrice; Castelli, Michele; Soresinetti, Laura; Negri, Agata; Arnoldi, Irene; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Gobbo, Federica; Defilippo, Francesco; Callegari, Emanuele; Di Luca, Marco; Calzolari, Mattia; Mastrantonio, Valentina; Porretta, Daniele; Ficetola, Gentile Francesco; Sassera, Davide; Gabrieli, Paolo; Bandi, Claudio; Epis, Sara

A bacterium against the tiger: further evidence of the potential of noninundative releases of males with manipulated Wolbachia infection in reducing fertility of Aedes albopictus field populations in Italy

2023 - PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Caputo, Beniamino; Moretti, Riccardo; Virgillito, Chiara; Manica, Mattia; Lampazzi, Elena; Lombardi, Giulia; Serini, Paola; Pichler, Verena; Beebe, Nigel W; Della Torre, Alessandra; Calvitti, Maurizio

Measuring the impact of genetic heterogeneity and chromosomal inversions on the efficacy of CRISPR-Cas9 gene drives in different strains of Anopheles gambiae

2023 - THE CRISPR JOURNAL

Pescod, Poppy; Bevivino, Giulia; Anthousi, Amalia; Shelton, Ruth; Margiotta, Molly; Shepherd, Josephine; Lombardo, Fabrizio; Nolan, Tony

Is CÃ´te D'Ivoire a new high hybridization zone for the two major malaria vectors, Anopheles coluzzii and An. gambiae (Diptera, Culicidae)?

2022 - INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Caputo, Beniamino; Tondossoma, Naminata; Virgillito, Chiara; Pichler, Verena; Serini, Paola; Calzetta, Maria; Manica, Mattia; Coulibaly, Zanakoungo Ibrahim; Dia, Ibrahima; AkrÃ©, Maurice; Offianan, Andre; della Torre, Alessandra

AIMSurv: First pan-European harmonized surveillance of Aedes invasive mosquito species of relevance for human vector-borne diseases

2022 - Gigabyte

Ãngel Miranda, Miguel; BarcelÃ³, Carlos; Arnoldi, Daniele; Augsten, Xenia; Bakran-lebl, Karin; Balatsos, George; Bengoa, Mikel; Bindler, Philippe; BorÅ¡ovÃ¡, Kristina; Bourquia, Maria; Bravo-barriga, Daniel; ÄabanovÃ¡, ViktÃ³ria; Caputo, Beniamino; Christou, Maria; Delacour, Sarah; Eritja, Roger; Fassi-fihri, Ouafaa; Ferraguti, Martina; Flacio, Eleonora; Frontera, Eva; Fuehrer, Hans-peter; GarcÃa-pÃ©rez, Ana L.; Georgiades, Pantelis; Gewehr, Sandra; Goiri, FÃ¡tima; Alexander GonzÃ¡lez, Mikel; Gschwind, Martin; GutiÃ©rrez-lÃ³pez, Rafael; HorvÃ¡th, Cintia; IbÃ¡Ã±ez-justicia, Adolfo; Jani, Viola; Kadriaj, PÃ«rparim; Kalan, Katja; Kavran, Mihaela; Klobucar, Ana; Kurucz, KornÃ©lia; Lucientes, Javier; LÃ¼hken, Renke; Magallanes, Sergio; Marini, Giovanni; Martinou, Angeliki F.; Michelutti, Alice; Daniel Mihalca, Andrei; Montalvo, TomÃ¡s; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Mourelatos, Spiros; Muja-bajraktari, Nesade; MÃ¼ller, Pie; Notarides, Gregoris; Costa OsÃ³rio, Hugo; Oteo, JosÃ© A.; Oter, Kerem; PajoviÄ, Igor; Palmer, John R. B.; Petrinic, Suncica; RaÌileanu, Cristian; Ries, Christian; Rogozi, Elton; Ruiz-arrondo, Ignacio; Sanpera-calbet, Isis; SekuliÄ, NebojÅ¡a; Sevim, Kivanc; Sherifi, Kurtesh; Silaghi, Cornelia; Silva, Manuel; Sokolovska, Nikolina; SoltÃ©sz, ZoltÃ¡n; Sulesco, Tatiana; Å uÅ¡njar, Jana; Teekema, Steffanie; Valsecchi, Andrea; Ines Vasquez, Marlen; Velo, Enkelejda; Michaelakis, Antonios; Wint, William; PetriÄ, DuÅ¡an; Schaffner, Francis; Della Torre, Alessandra; Aim-cost/aim-surv, Consortium

Mosquito Alert - Leveraging Citizen Science to Create a GBIF Mosquito Occurrence Dataset

2022 - Gigabyte

JuÅ¾niÄ-zonta, Å½ivko; Sanpera-calbet, Isis; Eritja, Roger; Palmer, John R. b.; Escobar, AgustÃ; Garriga, Joan; Oltra, Aitana; Richter-boix, Alex; Schaffner, Francis; Della Torre, Alessandra; Ãngel Miranda, Miguel; Koopmans, Marion; Barzon, Luisa; Bartumeus Ferre, Frederic; MarÃa AlarcÃ³n-Elbal, Pedro; Alexander GonzÃ¡lez, Mikel; Angeles Puig, Maria; Bakran-Lebl, Karin; Balatsos, Georgios; BarcelÃ³, Carlos; Bengoa Paulis, Mikel; Bisia, Marina; Blanco-Sierra, Laura; Bravo-Barriga, Daniel; Caputo, Beniamino; Collantes, Francisco; Costa OsÃ³rio, Hugo; Curman Posavec, Marcela; Cvetkovikj, Aleksandar; Deblauwe, Isra; Delacour, Sarah; Escartin PeÃ±a, Santi; Ferraguti, Martina; Flacio, Eleonora; Fuehrer, Hans-Peter; Gewehr, Sandra; Gunay, Filiz; GutiÃ©rrez-LÃ³pez, Rafael; HorvÃ¡th, Cintia; Ibanez-Justicia, Adolfo; Kadriaj, Perparim; Kalan, Katja; Kavran, Mihaela; Kemenesi, GÃ¡bor; Klobucar, Ana; Kurucz, KornÃ©lia; Longo, Eleonora; Magallanes, Sergio; Mariani, Simone; Martinou, Angeliki F.; Melero-AlcÃbar, Rosario; Michaelakis, Antonios; Michelutti, Alice; Mikov, Ognyan; Montalvo, Tomas; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Paoli, Francesca; Parrondo MontÃ³n, Diego; Rogozi, Elton; Ruiz-Arrondo, Ignacio; Severini, Francesco; Sokolovska, Nikolina; Sophia UnterkÃ¶fler, Maria; Stroo, Arjan; Teekema, Steffanie; Valsecchi, Andrea; Vaux, Alexander G. C.; Velo, Enkelejda; Zittra, Carina

Biochemical and structural analysis of a cytosolic sulfotransferase of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae overexpressed in the reproductive tissues

2022 - CURRENT RESEARCH IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Esposito Verza, Arianna; Miggiano, Riccardo; Lombardo, Fabrizio; Fiorillo, Carmine; ArcÃ , Bruno; PurghÃ©, Beatrice; Del Grosso, Erika; Galli, Ubaldina; Rizzi, Menico; Rossi, Franca

Geographic distribution of the V1016G knockdown resistance mutation in aedes albopictus. A warning bell for Europe

2022 - PARASITES & VECTORS

Pichler, V.; Caputo, B.; Valadas, V.; Micocci, M.; Horvath, C.; Virgillito, C.; Akiner, M.; Balatsos, G.; Bender, C.; Besnard, G.; Bravo-Barriga, D.; Bueno-Mari, R.; Collantes, F.; Delacour-Estrella, S.; Dikolli, E.; Falcuta, E.; Flacio, E.; Garcia-Perez, A. L.; Kalan, K.; Kavran, M.; L'Ambert, G.; Lia, R. P.; Marabuto, E.; Medialdea, R.; Melero-Alcibar, R.; Michaelakis, A.; Mihalca, A.; Mikov, O.; Miranda, M. A.; Muller, P.; Otranto, D.; Pajovic, I.; Petric, D.; Rebelo, M. T.; Robert, V.; Rogozi, E.; Tello, A.; Zitko, T.; Schaffner, F.; Pinto, J.; della Torre, A.

High levels of admixture in Anopheles gambiae populations from CÃ´te d'Ivoire revealed by multilocus genotyping

2022 - INSECTS

Tondossama, Naminata; Coulibaly, Zanakoungo I; TraorÃ©, Issouf; Ako, BÃ©renger A; Zoh, Danielle D; Virgillito, Chiara; Guindo-Coulibaly, NÃ©gnorogo; Serini, Paola; Assouho, Fabrice K; Dia, Ibrahima; TourÃ©, Andre O; Adja, Maurice A; Caputo, Beniamino; Della Torre, Alessandra; Pichler, Verena

Identification and detection of a novel point mutation in the Chitin Synthase gene of Culex pipiens associated with diflubenzuron resistance

2020 - PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

Fotakis, Emmanouil A.; Mastrantonio, Valentina; Grigoraki, Linda; Porretta, Daniele; Puggioli, Arianna; Chaskopoulou, Alexandra; Osorio, Hugo; Weill, MylÃ¨ne; Bellini, Romeo; Urbanelli, Sandra; Vontas, John

Knowledge, attitude and practices towards the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus. A questionnaire based survey in Lazio region (Italy) before the 2017 Chikungunya outbreak

2020 - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Caputo, Beniamino; Manica, Mattia; Russo, Gianluca; Solimini, Angelo

Zanzamapp: A scalable citizen science tool to monitor perception of mosquito abundance and nuisance in italy and beyond

2020 - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Caputo, B.; Manica, M.; Filipponi, F.; Blangiardo, M.; Cobre, P.; Delucchi, L.; De Marco, C. M.; Iesu, L.; Morano, P.; Petrella, V.; Salvemini, M.; Bianchi, C.; della Torre, A.

Phenotypic and genotypic pyrethroid resistance of Aedes albopictus, with focus on the 2017 chikungunya outbreak in Italy

2019 - PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Pichler, Verena; Malandruccolo, Chiara; Serini, Paola; Bellini, Romeo; Severini, Francesco; Toma, Luciano; Di Luca, Marco; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Ballardini, Marco; Manica, Mattia; Petrarca, Vincenzo; Vontas, John; Kasai, Shinji; Della Torre, Alessandra; Caputo, Beniamino

Variation in Wolbachia cidB gene, but not cidA, is associated with cytoplasmic incompatibility mod phenotype diversity in Culex pipiens

2019 - MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bonneau, M; Caputo, B; Ligier, A; Caparros, R; Unal, S; Perriat-Sanguinet, M; Arnoldi, D; Sicard, M; Weill, M.

Remarkable diversity of intron-1 of the para voltage-gated sodium channel in an Anopheles gambiae/A. coluzzi hybrid zone.

2015 - MALARIA JOURNAL

Santolamazza, Federica; Caputo, Beniamino; D. C., Nwakanma; C., Fanello; Petrarca, Vincenzo; D. J., Conway; D., Weetman; J., Pinto; E., Mancini; DELLA TORRE, Alessandra

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