Scientific Publications

2022
  • Palatini, U., Contreras, C. A., Gasmi, L., & Bonizzoni, M. 2022. Endogenous viral elements in mosquito genomes: current knowledge and outstanding questions.
    Current Opinion in Insect Science. 10.1016/j.cois.2021.10.007
    • 2021
  • Pischedda, E., Crava, C., Carlassara, M., Zucca, S., Gasmi, L., & Bonizzoni, M. 2021. ViR: a tool to solve intrasample variability in the prediction of viral integration sites using whole genome sequencing data.
    BMC Bioinformatics. 10.1186/s12859-021-03980-5
  • Khorramnejad, A., Perdomo, H. D., Palatini, U., Bonizzoni, M., & Gasmi, L. 2021. Cross talk between viruses and insect cells cytoskeleton.
    Viruses, 10.3390/v13081658
  • Marconcini, M., Pischedda, E., Houé, V., Palatini, U., Lozada-Chávez, N., Sogliani, D., … Bonizzoni, M. 2021. Profile of small RNAs, vDNA forms and viral integrations in late Chikungunya virus infection of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
    Viruses. 10.3390/v13040553
  • Crava, C. M., Varghese, F. S., Pischedda, E., Halbach, R., Palatini, U., Marconcini, M., … Bonizzoni, M. 2021. Population genomics in the arboviral vector Aedes aegypti reveals the genomic architecture and evolution of endogenous viral elements.
    Molecular Ecology. 10.1111/mec.15798
  • Scolari, F., Sandionigi, A., Carlassara, M., Bruno, A., Casiraghi, M., & Bonizzoni, M. 2021. Exploring changes in the Microbiota of Aedes albopictus: Comparison among breeding site water, larvae, and adults.
    Frontiers in Microbiology. 10.3389/fmicb.2021.624170
  • Macias, V. M., Palatini, U., Bonizzoni, M., & Rasgon, J. L. 2020. Leaning into the bite: The piRNA pathway as an exemplar for the genetic engineering need in mosquitoes.
    Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10.3389/fcimb.2020.614342
    • 2020
  • Palatini U, Masri RA, Cosme LV, (...), Powell J, Phillippy AM, Bonizzoni M. 2020. Improved reference genome of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus.
    Genome Biol. 10.1186/s13059-020-02141-w
  • Tancredi A, Papandrea D, Marconcini M, Carballar-Lejarazu R, Casas-Martinez M, Lo E, Chen XG, Malacrida AR, Bonizzoni M. 2020. Tracing temporal and geographic distribution of resistance to pyrethroids in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus.
    PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008350
  • Blair CD, Olson KE, Bonizzoni M. 2020. The Widespread Occurrence and Potential Biological Roles of Endogenous Viral Elements in Insect Genomes.
    Curr Issues Mol Biol. 10.21775/cimb.034.013
    • 2019
  • Marconcini M, Hernandez L, Iovino G, Houé V, Valerio F, Palatini U, Pischedda E, Crawford JE, White BJ, Lin T, Carballar-Lejarazu R, Ometto L, Forneris F, Failloux AB, Bonizzoni M. 2019. Polymorphism analyses and protein modelling inform on functional specialization of Piwi clade genes in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus.
    PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007919
  • Houé V, Gabiane G, Dauga C, Suez M, Madec Y, Mousson L, Marconcini M, Yen PS, de Lamballerie X, Bonizzoni M, Failloux AB. 2019. Evolution and biological significance of flaviviral elements in the genome of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus.
    Emerg Microbes Infect. 10.1080/22221751.2019.1657785
  • Machani MG, Ochomo E, Sang D, Bonizzoni M, Zhou G, Githeko AK, Yan G, Afrane YA. 2019. Influence of blood meal and age of mosquitoes on susceptibility to pyrethroids in Anopheles gambiae from Western Kenya.
    Malar J. 10.1186/s12936-019-2746-6
  • Scolari F, Casiraghi M, Bonizzoni M. 2019. Aedes spp. and Their Microbiota: A Review.
    Front Microbiol. 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02036
  • Houe V, Bonizzoni M, Failloux AB. 2019. Endogenous non-retroviral elements in genomes of Aedes mosquitoes and vector competence.
    Emerg Microbes Infect. 10.1080/22221751.2019.1599302
  • Pischedda E, Scolari F, Valerio F, Carballar-Lejarazú R, Catapano PL, Waterhouse RM, Bonizzoni M. 2019. Insights into an unexplored component of the mosquito repeatome: distribution and variability of viral sequences integrated into the genome of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus
    Frontiers in Genetics. 10.3389/fgene.2019.00093
  • Souza-Neto JA, Powell JR, Bonizzoni M. 2019. Aedes aegypti vector competence studies: A review.
    Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 10.1016/j.meegid.2018.11.009

    • Thesis Laurea Magistralis in Molecular Biology and Genetics


    Laurea Magistrale in Biologia Sperimentale e Applicata

    2018
  • Xu J, Su X, Bonizzoni M, Zhong D, Li Y, Zhou G, Nguyen H, Tong S, Yan G, Chen XG. 2018. Comparative transcriptome analysis and RNA interference reveal CYP6A8 and SNPs related to pyrethroid resistance in Aedes albopictus.
    PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006828
  • Lo E, Bonizzoni M, Hemming-Schroeder E, James A A, Afrane Y, Etemesi H, Zhou G, Githeko A & Yan G. 2018. Selection and utility of single nucleotide polymorphism markers to reveal fine-scale population structure in human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10.3389/fevo.2018.00145

    • Thesis Laurea Magistralis in Molecular biology and genetics

    2017
  • Bonizzoni M, Attardo G. 2017. Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Becoming vectors or victims, the intriguing interplay between insects and viruses.
    Current Opinion in Insect Science. 10.1016/j.cois.2017.07.010.
  • Waterhouse R M, IWAA Participants, Chen X, Bonizzoni M, Gasperi G. 2017. The third International Workshop on Aedes albopictus building scientific alliances in the fight against the globally invasive Asian tiger mosquito.
    Pathogens and Global Health. 10.1080/20477724.2017.1333560
  • Olson K E, Bonizzoni M. 2017. Nonretroviral integrated RNA viruses in arthropod vectors: an occasional event or something more?
     Current Opinion in Insect Science. 10.1016/j.cois.2017.05.010
  • Palatini U, Miesen P, Carballar-Lejarazu R, Ometto L, Rizzo E, Tu Z, Van Rij RP, Bonizzoni M. 2017. Comparative Genomics Shows That Viral Integrations Are Abundant And Express piRNAs In The Arboviral Vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.
     BMC Genomics. 10.1186/s12864-017-3903-3.
  • Manni M, Guglielmino CR, Scolari F, Vega-Rúa A, Failloux AB, Somboon P, Lisa A, Savini G, Bonizzoni M, Gomulski LM, Malacrida AR, Gasperi G. 2017. Genetic evidence for a worldwide chaotic dispersion pattern of the arbovirus vector, Aedes albopictus.
     PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 11:e0005332.

    • Thesis Laurea Magistralis in Molecular biology and genetics

    2016
  • Xu J, Bonizzoni M, Zhong D, Zhou G, Cai S, Li Y, Wang X, Lo E, Lee R, Sheen R, Duan J, Yan G, Chen XG. 2016. Multi-country Survey Revealed Prevalent and Novel F1534S Mutation in Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel (VGSC) Gene in Aedes albopictus.
     PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 10:e0004696.
  • Chang X, Zhong D, Lo E, Fang Q, Bonizzoni M, Wang X, Lee MC, Zhou G, Zhu G, Qin Q, Chen X, Cui L, Yan G. 2016. Landscape genetic structure and evolutionary genetics of insecticide resistance gene mutations in Anopheles sinensis.
     Parasit Vectors 9:228
    • 2015
  • Manni M, Lima KM, Guglielmino CR, Lanzavecchia SB, Juri M, Vera T, Cladera J, Scolari F, Gomulski L, Bonizzoni M, Gasperi G, Silva JG, Malacrida AR. 2015. Relevant genetic differentiation among Brazilian populations of Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae).
    Zookeys (540):157-173.
  • Chen XG, Jiang X, Gu J, Xu M, Wu Y, Deng Y, Zhang C, Bonizzoni M, Dermauw W, Vontas J, Armbruster P, Huang X, Yang Y, Zhang H, He W, Peng H, Liu Y, Wu K, Chen J, Lirakis M, Topalis P, Van Leeuwen T, Hall AB, Jiang X, Thorpe C, Mueller RL, Sun C, Waterhouse RM, Yan G, Tu ZJ, Fang X, James AA. 2015. Genome sequence of the Asian Tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, reveals insights into its biology, genetics, and evolution.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112(44): E5907-15.
  • Bonizzoni M, Ochomo E, Dunn WA, Britton M, Afrane Y, Zhou G, Hartsel J, Lee MC, Xu J, Githeko A, Fass J, Yan G. 2015. RNA-seq analyses of changes in the Anopheles gambiae transcriptome associated with resistance to pyrethroids in Kenya: identification of candidate-resistance genes and candidate-resistance SNPs.
    Parasit Vectors. 8:474. doi: 10.1186/s13071-015- 1083-z.
  • Evans BR, Gloria-Soria A, Hou L, McBride C, Bonizzoni M, Zhao H, Powell JR. 2015. A Multipurpose, High-Throughput Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Chip for the Dengue and Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti. G3 (Bethesda).
    5(5):711-8. doi: 10.1534/g3.114.016196.