The latest publications
Carotti E, Tittarelli E, Carducci F, Barucca M, Canapa A, Biscotti MA. 2024. The arms race of ray-finned fish against the derepression of LTR retroelements. Scientific Reports 14:29431.
Fuselli S, Greco S, Biello R, Palmitessa S, Lago M, Meneghetti C, McDougall C, Trucchi E, Rota Sabelli O, Biscotti MA, Schmidt DJ, Roberts DT, Espinoza T, Hughes JM, Ometto L, Gerdol M, Bertorelle G. 2023. Relaxation of natural selection in the evolution of the giant lungfish genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution doi.10.1093.
Carotti E, Carducci F, Barucca M, Canapa A, Biscotti MA. 2023. Transposable elements: epigenetic silencing mechanisms or modulating tools for vertebrate adaptations? two sides of the same coin. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24, 11591.
Carotti E, Tittarelli E, Canapa A, Biscotti MA, Carducci F, Barucca M. 2023. LTR retroelements and bird adaptation to arid environments. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24:6332.
Carotti E, Carducci F, Canapa A, Barucca M, Biscotti MA. 2023. Transposable element tissue-specific response to temperature stress in the stenothermal fish Puntius tetrazona. Animals 13, 1.
Carducci F, Biscotti MA, Mosca A, Greco S, Gerdol M, Memmola F, Barucca M and Canapa A. 2022. The mantle transcriptome of Chamelea gallina (Mollusca: Bivalvia) and shell biomineralization. Animals 12:1196.
Carotti E, Carducci F, Greco S, Gerdol M, Di Marino D, Perta N, La Teana A, Canapa A, Barucca M, Biscotti MA. 2022. Transcriptional contribution of transposable elements in relation to salinity conditions in teleosts and silencing mechanisms involved. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23:5215.
Carducci F, Ardiccioni C, Fiorini R, Vignini A, Di Paolo A, Alia S, Barucca M, Biscotti MA. 2022. The ALA5/ALA6/ALA7 repeat polymorphisms of the glutathione peroxidase-1 (GPx1) gene and autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research 1-7.
Carducci F, Carotti E, Gerdol M, Greco S, Canapa A, Barucca M, Biscotti MA. 2021. Investigation of the activity of transposable elements and genes involved in their silencing in the newt Cynops orientalis, a species with a giant genome. Sci. Rep. 11(1):14743.
Carducci F, Biscotti MA, Canapa A, Barucca M. 2021. The vitellogenin genes in Cynops orientalis: new insights on the evolution of the vtg gene family in amphibians. J. Exp. Zool. B Mol. Dev. Evol. 10.1002/jez.b.23067.
Pappalardo AM, Ferrito V, Biscotti MA, Canapa A, Capriglione T. 2021. Transposable elements and stress in vertebrates: an overview. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22(4):1970.
Carotti E, Carducci F, Canapa A, Barucca M, Greco S, Gerdol M, Biscotti MA. 2021. Transposable elements and teleost migratory behaviour. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22(2), 622.
Carducci F, Biscotti MA, Trucchi E., Giuliani M.E., Gorbi S., Coluccelli A., Barucca M, Canapa A. 2020. Omics approaches for conservation biology research on the bivalve Chamelea gallina. Scientific Reports 10:19177.
Carducci F, Barucca M, Canapa A, Carotti E, Biscotti MA. 2020. Mobile elements in ray-finned fish genomes. Life-Basel 10(10), 221.
Canapa A, Biscotti MA, Barucca M, Carducci F, Carotti E, Olmo E. 2020. Shedding light upon the complex net of genome size, genome composition and environment in chordates. The European Zoological Journal 87:192-202.
Biscotti MA, Carducci F, Barucca M, Gerdol M, Pallavicini A, Schartl M, Canapa A, Adolfi MC. 2020. The transcriptome of the newt Cynops orientalis provides new insights into evolution and function of sexual gene networks in sarcopterygians. Scientific Reports 10(1):5445.
Carducci F, Biscotti MA, Barucca M, Canapa A. 2019. Transposable elements in vertebrates: species evolution and environmental adaptation. The European Zoological Journal 87:497-503.
Dospinescu V-M, Nijjar S, Spanos F, Cook J, de Wolf E, Biscotti MA, Gerdol M, Dale N. 2019. Structural determinants of CO2-sensitivity in the β connexin family suggested by evolutionary analysis. Communications Biology 2:231.
Carducci F, Biscotti MA, Forconi M, Barucca M, Canapa A. 2019. An intriguing relationship between teleost Rex3 retroelement and environmental temperature. Biology Letters 15(9):20190279.
Carducci F, Biscotti MA, Canapa A. 2019. Vitellogenin gene family in vertebrates: evolution and functions. The European Zoological Journal 33(6):777-790.
Biscotti MA, Barucca M, Carducci F, Mariko M, Canapa A. 2019. The p53 gene family in vertebrates: evolutionary considerations. J. Exp. Zool. B Mol Dev Evol. 332(6):171-178.