Alexandre B. Leitão

Author

Alexandre B. Leitão

University of Lisbon ORCID

Also Known As

A. B. Leitao, Alexandre B Leitão, Alexandre B. Leitão, Leitão, Alexandre B.

Publications

525

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All Affiliations

University of Lisbon Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência University of Cambridge

About

Alexandre B. Leitão is an author at University of Lisbon specializing in medicine, biology, and immunology.

Top Concepts

#	Concept	H-Index	Publications	Citations
1	Medicine	4	4	334
2	Biology	3	3	198
3	Cell Biology	2	2	282
4	Natural Sciences	1	1	15
5	Public Health	1	1	37

Alexandre B. Leitão

Publications

486

Citations

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	Year	Citations
Drosophila sessile hemocyte clusters are true hematopoietic tissues that regulate larval blood cell differentiation Alexandre B. Leitão, Élio Sucena eLife BiologyDrosophila MelanogasterDrosophila HematopoiesisCell LineageDevelopmental Biology	2015	146
Steroid Hormone Signaling Is Essential to Regulate Innate Immune Cells and Fight Bacterial Infection in Drosophila Jennifer C. Regan, Ana S. Brandão, Alexandre B. Leitão, PLoS Pathogens Innate Immune SystemImmunologyImmune RegulationCell DeathInnate Immunity	2013	136
Alternative Splicing and Gene Duplication in the Evolution of the FoxP Gene Subfamily M. Emília Santos, A. Athanasiadis, Alexandre B. Leitão, Molecular Biology and Evolution	2010	67
Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection in Drosophila Alexandre B. Leitão, Ramesh Arunkumar, Jonathan P. Day, eLife	2020	45
Parallel and costly changes to cellular immunity underlie the evolution of parasitoid resistance in three Drosophila species John E. McGonigle, Alexandre B. Leitão, Sarah Ommeslag, PLoS Pathogens Species ResistanceFitnessBiomedical ResearchGeneticsEntomology	2017	37
<i>Tetranychus urticae</i> mites do not mount an induced immune response against bacteria Gonçalo Santos-Matos, Nicky Wybouw, Nelson Martins, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences	2017	25
Independent effects on cellular and humoral immune responses underlie genotype-by-genotype interactions between Drosophila and parasitoids Alexandre B. Leitão, Xueni Bian, Jonathan P. Day, PLoS Pathogens GeneticsEntomologyImmunologyHumoral ResponseInnate Immune System	2019	15
Natural selection has driven the recurrent loss of an immunity gene that protects <i>Drosophila</i> against a major natural parasite Ramesh Arunkumar, Shuyu Olivia Zhou, Jonathan P. Day, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	2023	15

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