Sassan Asgari

Genomic innovations, transcriptional plasticity and gene loss underlying the evolution and divergence of two highly polyphagous and invasive Helicoverpa pest species

Stephen L. Pearce, David F. Clarke, P. D. East et al. · BMC Biology · 2017 · 388 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Genetics +16

“Megavirales”, a proposed new order for eukaryotic nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses

Philippe Colson, Xavier de Lamballerie, Natalya Yutin et al. · Archives of Virology · 2013 · 252 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +16

<i>Wolbachia</i> uses host microRNAs to manipulate host gene expression and facilitate colonization of the dengue vector <i>Aedes aegypti</i>

Mazhar Hussain, Francesca D. Frentiu, Luciano Andrade Moreira et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 241 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Molecular Biology +17

West Nile virus encodes a microRNA-like small RNA in the 3' untranslated region which up-regulates GATA4 mRNA and facilitates virus replication in mosquito cells

Mazhar Hussain, Shessy Torres, Esther Schnettler et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2011 · 222 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology +17

<i>Wolbachia</i> uses a host microRNA to regulate transcripts of a methyltransferase, contributing to dengue virus inhibition in <i>Aedes aegypti</i>

Guangmei Zhang, Mazhar Hussain, Scott L. O’Neill et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 217 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Molecular Biology +17