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Alessandra della Torre

Alessandra della Torre

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
11506
World Ranking
17907
National Ranking
572

Overview

Alessandra della Torre is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and has a research focus primarily in medicine, particularly within public health, environmental and occupational health, molecular biology, infectious diseases, insect science, and plant science. Their work concentrates on mosquito-borne diseases and control, malaria research and control, insect resistance and genetics, viral infections and vectors, species distribution and climate change, insect pest control strategies, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Their publication record includes numerous papers published in recurring scientific venues such as Parasites & Vectors, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Insects, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Research Square. Alessandra della Torre frequently collaborates with researchers such as Beniamino Caputo, Verena Pichler, Mattia Manica, Chiara Virgillito, and Marco Pombi.

Examples of recent papers authored include:

  • Genome variation and population structure among 1142 mosquitoes of the African malaria vector species Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii, 2020, Genome Research
  • Estimating the potential risk of transmission of arboviruses in the Americas and Europe: a modelling study, 2024, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Behavioural plasticity of Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles arabiensis undermines LLIN community protective effect in a Sudanese-savannah village in Burkina Faso, 2020, Parasites & Vectors
  • Discovery of Ongoing Selective Sweeps within Anopheles Mosquito Populations Using Deep Learning, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Mosquito alert: leveraging citizen science to create a GBIF mosquito occurrence dataset, 2022, Gigabyte

Best Publications

  • The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Robert A. Holt;G. Mani Subramanian;Aaron Halpern;Granger G. Sutton

  • A Polytene Chromosome Analysis of the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex

    Mario Coluzzi;Adriana Sabatini;Alessandra della Torre;Maria Angela Di Deco

  • Insertion polymorphisms of SINE200 retrotransposons within speciation islands of Anopheles gambiae molecular forms

    Federica Santolamazza;Emiliano Mancini;Frédéric Simard;Yumin Qi

  • Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.

    Alistair Miles;Alistair Miles;Nicholas J. Harding;Giordano Bottà;Giordano Bottà;Chris S. Clarkson;Chris S. Clarkson

  • On the distribution and genetic differentiation of Anopheles gambiae s.s. molecular forms

    Alessandra della Torre;Zhijian Tu;Vincenzo Petrarca

  • Control methods against invasive Aedes mosquitoes in Europe: a review

    Frédéric Baldacchino;Beniamino Caputo;Fabrice Chandre;Andrea Drago

  • Distribution of knock-down resistance mutations in Anopheles gambiae molecular forms in west and west-central Africa

    Federica Santolamazza;Maria Calzetta;Josiane Etang;Elena Barrese

  • Molecular evolution of a gene cluster of serine proteases expressed in the Anopheles gambiae female reproductive tract

    Emiliano Mancini;Federica Tammaro;Francesco Baldini;Allegra Via

  • Density, survival and dispersal of Anopheles gambiae complex mosquitoes in a West African Sudan savanna village

    Carlo Costantini;Song-Gang Li;Song-Gang Li;Alessandra Della Torre;N'fale Sagnon

  • The "auto-dissemination" approach: a novel concept to fight Aedes albopictus in urban areas.

    Beniamino Caputo;Annamaria Ienco;Daniela Cianci;Marco Pombi

  • Species and Populations of the Anopheles gambiae Complex in Cameroon with Special Emphasis on Chromosomal and Molecular Forms of Anopheles gambiae s.s.

    Charles Wondji;Frédéric Simard;Vincenzo Petrarca;Josiane Etang

  • Mosquito responses to carbon dioxide in a west African Sudan savanna village

    Carlo Costantini;Carlo Costantini;Gabriella Gibson;N' Falé Sagnon;Alessandra Della Torre

  • Host-feeding patterns of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in urban and rural contexts within Rome province, Italy.

    Laura Valerio;Francesca Marini;Gioia Bongiorno;Luca Facchinelli

  • Trapping cDNAs encoding secreted proteins from the salivary glands of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.

    Bruno Arcà;Fabrizio Lombardo;Margareth de Lara Capurro;Alessandra della Torre

  • Multiple origins of knockdown resistance mutations in the Afrotropical mosquito vector Anopheles gambiae.

    João Pinto;Amy Lynd;José L. Vicente;Federica Santolamazza

  • Breakpoint structure reveals the unique origin of an interspecific chromosomal inversion (2La) in the Anopheles gambiae complex

    Igor V. Sharakhov;Bradley J. White;Maria V. Sharakhova;Jonathan Kayondo

  • Anopheles gambiae complex along The Gambia river, with particular reference to the molecular forms of An. gambiae s.s.

    Beniamino Caputo;Davis Nwakanma;Musa Jawara;Majidah Adiamoh

  • Identification and characterization of differentially expressed cDNAs of the vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae

    George Dimopoulos;George Dimopoulos;Adam Richman;Alessandra della Torre;Alessandra della Torre;Fotis C. Kafatos

  • Identification and composition of cuticular hydrocarbons of the major Afrotropical malaria vector Anopheles gambiae s.s. (Diptera: Culicidae): analysis of sexual dimorphism and age-related changes.

    Beniamino Caputo;Francesca R. Dani;Gill L. Horne;Vincenzo Petrarca

  • A Polytene Chromosome Analysis of the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex Science

    Adriana Sabatini;Alessandra della Torre;Maria Angela Di Deco;Vincenzo Petrarca

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincenzo Petrarca
Vincenzo Petrarca Sapienza University of Rome
Nora J. Besansky
Nora J. Besansky University of Notre Dame
Carlo Costantini
Carlo Costantini University of Montpellier
Frédéric Simard
Frédéric Simard University of Montpellier
Mario Coluzzi
Mario Coluzzi Sapienza University of Rome
Martin J. Donnelly
Martin J. Donnelly Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Adalgisa Caccone
Adalgisa Caccone Yale University
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Flaminia Catteruccia
Flaminia Catteruccia Harvard University
João L. Pinto
João L. Pinto University of Aveiro

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