Bruno Arcà
Bruno Arcà is professor of Molecular Biology at the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases of the University La Sapienza in Rome and he is an international expert of sanitary relevant mosquitoes. With his help we are performing developmental expression analyses of sex determination genes of Aedes albopictus.
Recent publications
- IgG1 and IgG4 antibody responses to the Anopheles gambiae salivary protein gSG6 in the sympatric ethnic groups Mossi and Fulani in a malaria hyperhendemic area of Burkina Faso. PLoS One. 2014 Apr 23;9(4):e96130.
- Positive selection drives accelerated evolution of mosquito salivary genes associated with blood-feeding. Insect Mol Biol. 2014 Feb;23(1):122-31.
- Influence of infection on malaria-specific antibody dynamics in a cohort exposed to intense malaria transmission in northern Uganda. Parasite Immunol. 2013 May-Jun;35(5-6):164-73.
- IgG responses to Anopheles gambiae salivary antigen gSG6 detect variation in exposure to malaria vectors and disease risk. PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e40170.
- The Anopheles gambiae cE5, a tight- and fast-binding thrombin inhibitor with post-transcriptionally regulated salivary-restricted expression. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2012 Sep;42(9):610-20.