The<i>transformer</i>gene in<i>Ceratitis capitata</i>provides a genetic basis for selecting and remembering the sexual fate

Attilio Pane, Marco Salvemini, Pasquale Delli Bovi, +2

Development

GeneticsGenomic MechanismMolecular GeneticsReproductive BiologyEpigenetics +17

The whole genome sequence of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), reveals insights into the biology and adaptive evolution of a highly invasive pest species

Alexie Papanicolaou, Marc F. Schetelig, Peter Arensburger, +60

Genome biology

Ceratitis capitata transformer-2 gene is required to establish and maintain the autoregulation of Cctra, the master gene for female sex determination

Marco Salvemini, Mark P. Robertson, Benjamin D. Aronson, +3

The International Journal of Developmental Biology

GeneticsGenomic MechanismFemale Reproductive SystemMolecular GeneticsGenomics +17

<i>Maleness-on-the-Y</i> ( <i>MoY</i> ) orchestrates male sex determination in major agricultural fruit fly pests

Angela Meccariello, Marco Salvemini, Pasquale Primo, +27

Science

Annocript: a flexible pipeline for the annotation of transcriptomes able to identify putative long noncoding RNAs

Francesco Musacchia, Swaraj Basu, Giuseppe Petrosino, +2

Bioinformatics

Genomic organization and splicing evolution of the doublesex gene, a Drosophila regulator of sexual differentiation, in the dengue and yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti

Marco Salvemini, U. Mauro, Fabrizio Lombardo, +5

BMC Evolutionary Biology

The Gene Transformer of Anastrepha Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) and Its Evolution in Insects

María Fernanda Ruiz, Andreina Milano, Marco Salvemini, +6

PLoS ONE

Gene TraAnastrepha Fruit FliesInsect ConservationGeneticsEntomology +18

Highly efficient DNA-free gene disruption in the agricultural pest Ceratitis capitata by CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complexes

Angela Meccariello, Simona Maria Monti, Alessandra Romanelli, +17

Scientific Reports

Deciphering the olfactory repertoire of the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus

Fabrizio Lombardo, Marco Salvemini, Carmine Fiorillo, +4

BMC Genomics

The Orthologue of the Fruitfly Sex Behaviour Gene Fruitless in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti: Evolution of Genomic Organisation and Alternative Splicing

Marco Salvemini, Rocco D'Amato, Valeria Petrella, +6

PLoS ONE

GeneticsEntomologySexual SelectionMolecular GeneticsGenomic Organisation +22