Leonela Carabajal Paladino

The paper shows that varying the length of the AePUb promoter in Aedes aegypti can adjust reporter gene expression levels in both cell culture and mosquitoes.

This paper improves genetic manipulation techniques in Aedes aegypti by introducing transgenic lines for Cre-mediated recombination and a plasmid-based PhiC31 integrase system for stable transgene integration.

The paper identifies small silencing RNAs targeting PxyMasc, a male-determining gene in diamondback moth, expressed from W-linked retrocopies on the female-specific chromosome.