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2025

• Zaada DSY, Papathanos PA, Marois E. Reprogramming sex for vector control: maleness-associated transgenes in Aedes albopictus. Current Opinion Insect Science.

• Petrucci G, Gregoriou ME, Papathanos PA, Schetelig MF, Tu Z and Bourtzis K. Neoclassical development of genetic sexing strains for insect pest and disease vector control. Insect Science.

• Nazarov A, Partosh T, Krsticevic F, Rallis D, Arien Y, Ostrovsky G, Kramer RM, Halon E, Handler AM, Baxter SW, Gazit Y, Mathiopoulos KD, Pines G, Papathanos PA. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutagenesis of the white-eye gene in the tephritid pest Bactrocera zonata. Insect Science.

• Zaada DSY, Toren O, Krsticevic F, Haber DA, Gildman D, Galpaz N, Häcker I, Schetelig MF, Marois E, Arien Y and Papathanos PA. Mosquito Sex Separation using Complementation of Selectable Traits and Engineered Neo-Sex Chromosomes. Nature Communications (Previously bioRxiv, April 2025).

• Rallis D, Tsoumani KT, Krsticevic F, Papathanos PA, Mathiopoulos KD, Papanicolaou A. Revisiting Y-chromosome detection methods: R-CQ and KAMY efficiently identify Y chromosome sequences in Tephritidae insect pests. Insect Science.

• Perets D, Ke H, Campli G, Sar-Shalom E, Krsticevic F, Yakir E, Waterhouse RM, Wang Y, Papathanos PA and Bohbot JD. Comparative chemosensory mechanisms underlying larval foraging and competitive advantage in Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti. bioRxiv.

• Djambazian H, Chen S-H, Bérubé P, Nikolouli K, Grigoriou M-E, Rallis D, Darby A, Windbichler N, Schetelig MF, Papathanos PA, Mathiopoulos K, Pines G, Ragoussis J, Bourtzis K. Genome assembly of five Tephritid species for the enhancement of the Sterile Insect Technique. bioRxiv.

• Arien Y, Zacharia C, Yonah E, Bonda E and Papathanos PA. Developing Y-chromosome sex ratio distorters in the model insect Drosophila melanogaster. bioRxiv.

• Ens G, Lewin AR, Zaada DSY, Doron J, Gilan Z, Livne A, Ordan E, Papathanos PA. 3D-Feedy: An open and portable membrane feeder for mosquito research. bioRxiv.

• Sarig A, Sar-Shalom E, Kolley ESM, Yonah ES, Lamdan LB, Lewin AR, Partosh T, Pines G, Bohbot JD, Papathanos PA. An OpIE2-DsRed marker disrupts female blood-feeding and shortens lifespan in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. bioRxiv.

2024

• Meccariello M, Hou S, Davydova S, Fawcett J, Siddall A, Leftwich PT, Krsticevic F, Papathanos PA, Windbichler N. Gene drive and genetic sex conversion in the global agricultural pest Ceratitis capitata. Nature Communications.

• Haber DA, Arien A, Lamdan LD, Alcalay A, Zecharia CS, Krsticevic F, Yonah ES, Avraham RD, Windbichler N and Papathanos PA. Targeting mosquito X-chromosomes reveals complex transmission dynamics of sex ratio distorting gene drives. Nature Communications.

• Aleks Danov, Inbal Pollins, Eric Moon, Mengfei Ho, Brenda A Wilson, Philippos A Papathanos, Tommy Kaplan, Asaf Levy. Identification of novel toxins associated with the extracellular contractile injection system using machine learning. Molecular Systems Biology.

2023

• Tandonnet S, Krsticevic F, Basika T, Papathanos PA, Torres TT, Scott MJ. A chromosomal-scale reference genome of the New World Screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax. DNA Research.

• Vainer Y, Wang Y, Huff RM, Ghaninia M, Coutinho-Abreu IV, Sar-Shalom E, Ruiz C, Perets D, Yakir E, Rajamanickam D, Warburg A, Papathanos PA, Akbari O, Ignell R, Riffell JA, Pitts J, Bohbot JD. The evolution of borneol repellency in culicine mosquitoes. bioRxiv.

2022

• Arien Y, Alcalay Y, Haber DA, Lamdan LB, Avraham RD, Papathanos PA. Sex Ratio Manipulation Using Gene Drive for Mosquito Population Control. Transgenic Insects - techniques and applications, 2nd edition.

• Nash A, Capriotti P, Hoermann A, Papathanos PA, Windbichler N. Intronic gRNAs for the construction of minimal gene drive systems. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

2021

• Fasulo B, Meccariello M, Papathanos PA, and Windbichler N. Synthetic Sex Ratio Distorters Based on CRISPR for the Control of Harmful Insect Populations. Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management.

• Alcalay Y, Fuchs S, Galizi R, Bernardini F, Haghighat-Khah RE, Rusch DB, Adrion JR, Hahn MW, Tortosa P, Papathanos PA. The potential for a released autosomal X-shredder becoming a driving-Y chromosome and invasively suppressing wild populations of malaria mosquitoes. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

• Meccariello M, Krsticevic F, Colonna R, Del Corsano G, Fasulo B, Papathanos PA, Windbichler N. Engineered sex distortion in the global agricultural pest Ceratitis capitata. BMC Biology.

• Gamez S, Chaverra-Rodriguez D, Buchman A, Kandul NP, Sanchez SCM, Bennett JB, Sanchez HM, Yang T, Antoshechkin I, Duque JE, Papathanos PA, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Exploiting a Y Chromosome linked Cas9 for Sex Selection and Gene drive. Nature Communications.