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Massimiliano Virgilio
Biology
Invertebrates
Invertebrates
Publications
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Ferrari, G., Esselens, L., Hart, M., Janssens, S., Kidner, K., Mascarello, M., Peñalba, JV., Pezzini, F., Von Rintelen, T., Sonet, G., Vangestel, C., Virgilio, M. & Hollingsworth, P. 2023. ‘Developing the protocol infrastructure for DNA sequencing natural history collections’. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: e102317. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e102317. URL: https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/102317/ I.F. 1.3.
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De Meyer, M., Majubwa, R.O., Biyusa, A.K., Vandenbosch, M., Virgilio, M. & Mwatawala, M. 2023. ‘A first checklist of the dacine fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae, Dacinae) of Tanzania’. Journal of East African Natural History 112: 1-19. (PR).
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Bakengesa, J.A., Kudra, A.B., De Meyer, M., Virgilio, M., Mwatawala, M.W. & Majubwa, R.O. 2023. ‘Agroecological farming practices against fruit flies in Central Eastern Tanzania’. Fruits 78(3). DOI: doi.org/10.17660/th2023/010. (PR).
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De Meyer, M., Bota, L., Daniel, B., Mussumbi, M., Vandenbosch, M., Canhanga, L., Cambula, E., Cugala, D. & Virgilio, M. 2023. ‘A checklist of the dacine fruit flies (Diptera, Tephrtidiae, Dacinae) of Mozambique’. African Entomology 31: e15585. (PR).
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Zhang, Y., Li, W., Virgilio, M., De Meyer, M. & Li, Z. 2023. ‘Loop-mediated isothermal amplification of economically important Ceratitis species (Diptera: Tephritidae)’. Journal of Economic Entomology. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/jee/toad192. . (PR).
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Zhang, Y., Liu, S., De Meyer, M., Liao, Z., Zhao, Y., Virgilio, M., Feng, S., Qin, Y., Singh, S., Wee, S.L., Jiang, F., Guo, S., Li, H., Deschepper, P., Vanbergen, S., Delatte, H., van Sauers-Muller, A., Syamsudin, T.S., Kawi, A.P., Kasina, M., Badji, K., Said, F., Liu, L., Zhao, Z. & Z, Li. 2022. ‘Genomes of the cosmopolitan fruit pest Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae) reveal its global invasion history and thermal adaptation’. Journal of Advanced Research. DOI: org/10.1016/jare.2022.12.012. (PR).
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Zhang, Y., Li, H., Feng, S., Qin, Y., De Meyer, M., Virgilio, M., Singh, S., Jiang, F., Kawi, A.P., Susanto, A., Martinez-Sanudo, I., Wu, J., Badji, K., Davaasambuu, U. & Li, Z. 2022. ‘Mitochondrial phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary and biogeographical history of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)’. Entomologica Generalis. DOI: 10.1127/entomologia/2022/1594. (PR).
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Maes, Tim., De Corte, Z., Vangestel, C., Virgilio, M., Smitz, N., Teukeng, F., Papadaki, M. & Huyse, T. 2022. ‘Large-scale and small-scale population genetic structure of the medically important gastropod species Bulinus truncatus (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia)’. Parasites & Vectors. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-022-05445-x. URL: https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-022-05445-x I.F. 4.047.
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Hendrycks, W., Delatte, H., Moquet, L., Bourtzis, K., Mullens, N., De Meyer, M., Backeljau, T. & Virgilio, M. 2022. ‘Eating eggplants as a cucurbit feeder: Dietary shifts affect the gut microbiome of the melon fly Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Diptera, Tephritidae)’. Microbiology Open 11: e130. DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.1307. URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1307 I.F. 3.139.
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Mullens, B., Sonet, G., Virgilio, Goergen, G., Janssens, S., De Meyer, M. & Jordaens, K. 2022. ‘Systematics of Afrotropical Eristalinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) using mitochondrial phylogenomics’. Shaun L. Winterton, Christiane Weirauch, Bonnie B. Blaimer, Marianne Espeland (eds), Systematic Entomology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12532. I.F. 3.844.