Alessandro Bonfini

A transcriptomic atlas of Aedes aegypti reveals detailed functional organization of major body parts and gut regional specializations in sugar-fed and blood-fed adult females

Bretta Hixson, Xiao‐Li Bing, Xiaowei Yang et al. · eLife · 2022 · 139 citations · Full text

Gut Regional Specializations, Host-microbe Interactions, Genetics +24

Hippo, TGF-β, and Src-MAPK pathways regulate transcription of the upd3 cytokine in Drosophila enterocytes upon bacterial infection

Philip Houtz, Alessandro Bonfini, Xi Liu et al. · PLoS Genetics · 2017 · 93 citations · Full text

Microbial Pathogens, Immunology, Immune Regulation +19

Microbes affect gut epithelial cell composition through immune-dependent regulation of intestinal stem cell differentiation

Xi Liu, Péter Nagy, Alessandro Bonfini et al. · Cell Reports · 2022 · 90 citations · Full text

Dysbiosis, Host-microbe Interactions, Immunology +19

<i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> sex peptide regulates mated female midgut morphology and physiology

Melissa A. White, Alessandro Bonfini, Mariana F. Wolfner et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 77 citations · Full text

Multiscale analysis reveals that diet-dependent midgut plasticity emerges from alterations in both stem cell niche coupling and enterocyte size

Alessandro Bonfini, A. Dobson, David Duneau et al. · eLife · 2021 · 54 citations · Full text