Alexandre B. Leitão

533 total citations
12 papers, 324 citations indexed

About

Alexandre B. Leitão is a scholar working on Immunology, Insect Science and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre B. Leitão has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 324 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Immunology, 10 papers in Insect Science and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alexandre B. Leitão's work include Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (11 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (9 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (7 papers). Alexandre B. Leitão is often cited by papers focused on Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (11 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (9 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (7 papers). Alexandre B. Leitão collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and Ireland. Alexandre B. Leitão's co-authors include Élio Sucena, António Jacinto, Anna Zaidman-Rémy, Jennifer C. Regan, Francis M. Jiggins, Jonathan P. Day, M. Emília Santos, A. Athanasiadis, Ramesh Arunkumar and Sophie Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Molecular Biology and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre B. Leitão

12 papers receiving 322 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexandre B. Leitão Portugal	7	213	173	131	64	42	12	324
Fangge Li China	6	208 1.0×	118 0.7×	107 0.8×	115 1.8×	41 1.0×	10	371
Alessandro Bonfini United States	9	174 0.8×	159 0.9×	107 0.8×	120 1.9×	57 1.4×	13	358
Badrul Arefin Sweden	11	189 0.9×	211 1.2×	83 0.6×	177 2.8×	33 0.8×	16	392
Robert Krautz Sweden	11	186 0.9×	152 0.9×	86 0.7×	189 3.0×	37 0.9×	19	399
Pavla Nedbalová Czechia	6	150 0.7×	114 0.7×	51 0.4×	50 0.8×	33 0.8×	7	260
Barbara Laurinyecz Hungary	7	316 1.5×	232 1.3×	162 1.2×	152 2.4×	65 1.5×	7	461
Gábor Csordás Hungary	13	368 1.7×	271 1.6×	179 1.4×	154 2.4×	85 2.0×	25	580
Leire Herboso Spain	6	111 0.5×	75 0.4×	147 1.1×	89 1.4×	28 0.7×	6	275
Zongzhao Zhai China	9	209 1.0×	135 0.8×	150 1.1×	146 2.3×	20 0.5×	17	375
Carrie M. Spratford United States	7	206 1.0×	85 0.5×	112 0.9×	115 1.8×	45 1.1×	10	296

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12 of 12 papers shown

Leitão, Alexandre B., et al.. (2025). Transdifferentiation of plasmatocytes to crystal cells in the lymph gland of Drosophila melanogaster. EMBO Reports. 26(8). 2077–2097. 1 indexed citations

Leitão, Alexandre B., et al.. (2024). Recognition of nonself is necessary to activate Drosophila’s immune response against an insect parasite. BMC Biology. 22(1). 89–89. 2 indexed citations

Arunkumar, Ramesh, et al.. (2024). The evolution of constitutively active humoral immune defenses in Drosophila populations under high parasite pressure. PLoS Pathogens. 20(1). e1011729–e1011729. 4 indexed citations

Arunkumar, Ramesh, et al.. (2023). Natural selection has driven the recurrent loss of an immunity gene that protects Drosophila against a major natural parasite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(33). e2211019120–e2211019120. 4 indexed citations

Ding, Shuai, et al.. (2022). Trans-regulatory changes underpin the evolution of the Drosophila immune response. PLoS Genetics. 18(11). e1010453–e1010453. 3 indexed citations

Leitão, Alexandre B., Ramesh Arunkumar, Jonathan P. Day, et al.. (2020). Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection in Drosophila. eLife. 9. 28 indexed citations

Leitão, Alexandre B., et al.. (2019). Independent effects on cellular and humoral immune responses underlie genotype-by-genotype interactions between Drosophila and parasitoids. PLoS Pathogens. 15(10). e1008084–e1008084. 8 indexed citations

Wybouw, Nicky, Nelson Martins, Flore Zélé, et al.. (2017). Tetranychus urticae mites do not mount an induced immune response against bacteria. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1856). 20170401–20170401. 13 indexed citations

Leitão, Alexandre B., et al.. (2017). Parallel and costly changes to cellular immunity underlie the evolution of parasitoid resistance in three Drosophila species. PLoS Pathogens. 13(10). e1006683–e1006683. 26 indexed citations

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Leitão, Alexandre B. & Élio Sucena. (2015). Drosophila sessile hemocyte clusters are true hematopoietic tissues that regulate larval blood cell differentiation. eLife. 4. 91 indexed citations

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Regan, Jennifer C., et al.. (2013). Steroid Hormone Signaling Is Essential to Regulate Innate Immune Cells and Fight Bacterial Infection in Drosophila. PLoS Pathogens. 9(10). e1003720–e1003720. 94 indexed citations

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Santos, M. Emília, et al.. (2010). Alternative Splicing and Gene Duplication in the Evolution of the FoxP Gene Subfamily. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(1). 237–247. 50 indexed citations

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