Brian P. Lazzaro

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Brian P. Lazzaro is a scholar working on Immunology, Insect Science and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian P. Lazzaro has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Immunology, 57 papers in Insect Science and 18 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Brian P. Lazzaro's work include Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (59 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (52 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (15 papers). Brian P. Lazzaro is often cited by papers focused on Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (59 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (52 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (15 papers). Brian P. Lazzaro collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Brian P. Lazzaro's co-authors include Andrew G. Clark, Jens Rolff, Michael Zasloff, Mariana F. Wolfner, Tom J. Little, Timothy B. Sackton, Virginia M. Howick, Robert L. Unckless, Sarah M. Short and Madeline R. Galac and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Brian P. Lazzaro

81 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Antimicrobial peptides: Application informed by evolution

2020 754 citations Brian P. Lazzaro et al. Science profile →
Reproduction–Immunity Trade-Offs in Insects

2015 383 citations Brian P. Lazzaro et al. profile →

Peers

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Jens Rolff Germany

Zhen Zou China

Jean‐Luc Imler France

Norman A. Ratcliffe United Kingdom

Bruce M. Christensen United States

Neal Silverman United States

William E. Goldman United States

Serap Aksoy United States

Kozo Fujisaki Japan

Dominique Ferrandon France

Jens Rolff Germany

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian P. Lazzaro

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cook, Andrew, et al.. (2024). Facultatively ectoparasitic mites as vectors for entomopathogenic bacteria in Drosophila. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 204. 108084–108084. 1 indexed citations

Frank, Ashley M., et al.. (2024). High sugar diets can increase susceptibility to bacterial infection in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Pathogens. 20(8). e1012447–e1012447. 5 indexed citations

Lazzaro, Brian P., et al.. (2023). No evidence for trans-generational immune priming in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE. 18(7). e0288342–e0288342. 3 indexed citations

Ellner, Stephen P., Nicolas Buchon, Tobias Dörr, & Brian P. Lazzaro. (2021). Host–pathogen immune feedbacks can explain widely divergent outcomes from similar infections. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1951). 20210786–20210786. 19 indexed citations

Shahrestani, Parvin, Elizabeth G. King, Mark Phillips, et al.. (2021). The molecular architecture of Drosophila melanogaster defense against Beauveria bassiana explored through evolve and resequence and quantitative trait locus mapping. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(12). 10 indexed citations

Gupta, Vanika & Brian P. Lazzaro. (2021). A robust method to isolate Drosophila fat body nuclei for transcriptomic analysis. Fly. 16(1). 62–67. 5 indexed citations

Chambers, Moria C., et al.. (2019). Consequences of chronic bacterial infection in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0224440–e0224440. 31 indexed citations

Behrman, Emily L., Virginia M. Howick, Martin Kapun, et al.. (2018). Rapid seasonal evolution in innate immunity of wild Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1870). 20172599–20172599. 52 indexed citations

Duneau, David, Hannah Kondolf, Michael A. Fox, et al.. (2017). The Toll pathway underlies host sexual dimorphism in resistance to both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria in mated Drosophila. BMC Biology. 15(1). 124–124. 72 indexed citations

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Duneau, David, Jean‐Baptiste Ferdy, Jonathan Revah, et al.. (2017). Stochastic variation in the initial phase of bacterial infection predicts the probability of survival in D. melanogaster. eLife. 6. 105 indexed citations

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Sackton, Timothy B., Brian P. Lazzaro, & Andrew G. Clark. (2016). Rapid expansion of immune-related gene families in the house fly, Musca domestica. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(4). msw285–msw285. 28 indexed citations

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Unckless, Robert L. & Brian P. Lazzaro. (2016). The potential for adaptive maintenance of diversity in insect antimicrobial peptides. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1695). 20150291–20150291. 51 indexed citations

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Dobson, A., John M. Chaston, Peter D. Newell, et al.. (2015). Host genetic determinants of microbiota-dependent nutrition revealed by genome-wide analysis of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6312–6312. 73 indexed citations

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Crawford, Jacob E. & Brian P. Lazzaro. (2012). Assessing the Accuracy and Power of Population Genetic Inference from Low-Pass Next-Generation Sequencing Data. Frontiers in Genetics. 3. 66–66. 40 indexed citations

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Rottschaefer, Susan M., Michelle M. Riehle, Boubacar Coulibaly, et al.. (2011). Exceptional Diversity, Maintenance of Polymorphism, and Recent Directional Selection on the APL1 Malaria Resistance Genes of Anopheles gambiae. PLoS Biology. 9(3). e1000600–e1000600. 55 indexed citations

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Crawford, Jacob E., Wamdaogo M. Guelbéogo, Antoine Sanou, et al.. (2010). De Novo Transcriptome Sequencing in Anopheles funestus Using Illumina RNA-Seq Technology. PLoS ONE. 5(12). e14202–e14202. 128 indexed citations

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Lazzaro, Brian P., Heather A. Flores, James G. Lorigan, & Christopher P Yourth. (2008). Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Adaptation to Local Temperature Affect Immunity and Fecundity in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Pathogens. 4(3). e1000025–e1000025. 111 indexed citations

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Lazzaro, Brian P. & Madeline R. Galac. (2006). Disease Pathology: Wasting Energy Fighting Infection. Current Biology. 16(22). R964–R965. 11 indexed citations

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Lazzaro, Brian P., Bonnielin K. Sceurman, & Andrew G. Clark. (2004). Genetic Basis of Natural Variation in D. melanogaster Antibacterial Immunity. Science. 303(5665). 1873–1876. 200 indexed citations

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Lazzaro, Brian P.. (2003). Molecular Population Genetics of Inducible Antibacterial Peptide Genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 20(6). 914–923. 75 indexed citations

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