Bacteria-mediated hypoxia functions as a signal for mosquito development KL Coon, L Valzania, DA McKinney, KJ Vogel, MR Brown, MR Strand Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (27), E5362-E5369, 2017 | 138 | 2017 |
Both living bacteria and eukaryotes in the mosquito gut promote growth of larvae L Valzania, VG Martinson, RE Harrison, BM Boyd, KL Coon, MR Brown, ... PLoS neglected tropical diseases 12 (7), e0006638, 2018 | 87 | 2018 |
Hypoxia-induced transcription factor signaling is essential for larval growth of the mosquito Aedes aegypti L Valzania, KL Coon, KJ Vogel, MR Brown, MR Strand Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 115 (3), 457-465, 2018 | 78 | 2018 |
Transcriptome sequencing reveals large-scale changes in axenic Aedes aegypti larvae KJ Vogel, L Valzania, KL Coon, MR Brown, MR Strand PLoS neglected tropical diseases 11 (1), e0005273, 2017 | 54 | 2017 |
Blood feeding activates the vitellogenic stage of oogenesis in the mosquito Aedes aegypti through inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase 3 by the insulin and TOR pathways L Valzania, MT Mattee, MR Strand, MR Brown Developmental biology 454 (1), 85-95, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
Riboflavin instability is a key factor underlying the requirement of a gut microbiota for mosquito development Y Wang, JH Eum, RE Harrison, L Valzania, X Yang, JA Johnson, DT Huck, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (15), e2101080118, 2021 | 39 | 2021 |
A polydnavirus-encoded ANK protein has a negative impact on steroidogenesis and development M Ignesti, R Ferrara, P Romani, L Valzania, G Serafini, F Pennacchio, ... Insect biochemistry and molecular biology 95, 26-32, 2018 | 30 | 2018 |
Metal-responsive promoter DNA compaction by the ferric uptake regulator D Roncarati, S Pelliciari, N Doniselli, S Maggi, A Vannini, L Valzania, ... Nature communications 7 (1), 12593, 2016 | 29 | 2016 |
Predaceous Toxorhynchites mosquitoes require a living gut microbiota to develop KL Coon, L Valzania, MR Brown, MR Strand Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1919), 20192705, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
Drosophila 4EHP is essential for the larval–pupal transition and required in the prothoracic gland for ecdysone biosynthesis L Valzania, H Ono, M Ignesti, V Cavaliere, F Bernardi, C Gamberi, ... Developmental biology 410 (1), 14-23, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
A polydnavirus ANK protein acts as virulence factor by disrupting the function of prothoracic gland steroidogenic cells L Valzania, P Romani, L Tian, S Li, V Cavaliere, F Pennacchio, ... PLoS One 9 (4), e95104, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
A Dilp8-dependent time window ensures tissue size adjustment in Drosophila D Blanco-Obregon, K El Marzkioui, F Brutscher, V Kapoor, L Valzania, ... Nature Communications 13 (1), 5629, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
Insulin-like peptide 3 stimulates hemocytes to proliferate in anautogenous and facultatively autogenous mosquitoes EO Martinson, K Chen, L Valzania, MR Brown, MR Strand Journal of Experimental Biology 225 (5), jeb243460, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
The mosquito Aedes aegypti requires a gut microbiota for normal fecundity, longevity and vector competence RE Harrison, X Yang, JH Eum, VG Martinson, X Dou, L Valzania, Y Wang, ... Communications Biology 6 (1), 1154, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
Increased environmental microbial diversity reduces the disease risk of a mosquitocidal pathogen Z Kang, VG Martinson, Y Wang, KL Coon, L Valzania, MR Strand Mbio 15 (1), e02726-23, 2024 | | 2024 |
A temporal allocation of amino acid resources ensures fitness and body allometry L Valzania, A Alami, P Leopold bioRxiv, 2023.12. 08.570599, 2023 | | 2023 |
Regulation of immune cell proliferation is conserved in mosquitoes EO Martinson, L Valzania, MR Strand Entomology 2018, 2018 | | 2018 |
Gut microbes strongly affect growth and development of larval stage mosquitoes L Valzania, KL Coon, K Vogel, MR Brown, MR Strand Entomology 2018, 2018 | | 2018 |
INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Hypoxia-induced transcription factor signaling is essential for larval growth of the mosquito Aedes aegypti L Valzania, KL Coon, KJ Vogel, MR Brown, MR Strand Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of …, 2018 | | 2018 |
Role of the microbiome in mosquito development KL Coon, MR Strand, L Valzania, KJ Vogel, MR Brown 2016 International Congress of Entomology, 2016 | | 2016 |