Diégo Ayala

4.1k total citations
63 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Diégo Ayala is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Insect Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Diégo Ayala has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 18 papers in Insect Science and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Diégo Ayala's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (40 papers), Malaria Research and Control (28 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (16 papers). Diégo Ayala is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (40 papers), Malaria Research and Control (28 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (16 papers). Diégo Ayala collaborates with scholars based in France, Gabon and United States. Diégo Ayala's co-authors include Frédéric Simard, Didier Fontenille, Carlo Costantini, Marco Pombi, Christophe Paupy, Nora J. Besansky, Kenji Osé, Nil Rahola, Pierre Kengne and Mark Kirkpatrick and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Diégo Ayala

55 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Diégo Ayala France 26 1.3k 544 467 372 358 63 1.9k
Marco Pombi Italy 26 1.7k 1.3× 473 0.9× 504 1.1× 306 0.8× 439 1.2× 78 2.2k
Pierre Kengne France 30 1.6k 1.3× 362 0.7× 525 1.1× 192 0.5× 478 1.3× 65 2.2k
Yoosook Lee United States 24 1.2k 0.9× 513 0.9× 849 1.8× 330 0.9× 337 0.9× 85 1.9k
Neil F. Lobo United States 32 1.7k 1.3× 547 1.0× 922 2.0× 543 1.5× 706 2.0× 118 2.8k
Beniamino Caputo Italy 24 1.5k 1.2× 610 1.1× 294 0.6× 248 0.7× 358 1.0× 86 2.0k
Catherine Walton United Kingdom 30 1.7k 1.3× 434 0.8× 638 1.4× 415 1.1× 605 1.7× 74 2.5k
Rosemary Susan Lees United Kingdom 25 1.4k 1.1× 1.3k 2.4× 460 1.0× 161 0.4× 501 1.4× 61 2.2k
Daniele Porretta Italy 25 463 0.4× 449 0.8× 370 0.8× 232 0.6× 321 0.9× 60 1.3k
Philip Agnew France 26 920 0.7× 814 1.5× 314 0.7× 530 1.4× 541 1.5× 37 2.0k
Adama Dao Mali 23 1.1k 0.8× 359 0.7× 220 0.5× 227 0.6× 180 0.5× 46 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Diégo Ayala

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Fields of papers citing papers by Diégo Ayala

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diégo Ayala

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Diégo Ayala. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Diégo Ayala based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Diégo Ayala. Diégo Ayala is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Balcazar, Darío, Athanase Badolo, Michaël Luciano Tantely, et al.. (2025). From macro to micro: De novo genomes of Aedes mosquitoes enable comparative genomics among close and distant relatives. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(8). 1 indexed citations
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Merkling, Sarah H., Stéphanie Dabo, Josquin Daron, et al.. (2025). Dengue virus susceptibility in Aedes aegypti linked to natural cytochrome P450 promoter variants. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7468–7468.
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Buysse, Marie, Nil Rahola, Josquin Daron, et al.. (2023). Limited association between Wolbachia and Plasmodium falciparum infections in natural populations of the major malaria mosquito Anopheles moucheti. Evolutionary Applications. 16(12). 1999–2006. 2 indexed citations
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Costantini, Carlo, Carine Ngoagouni, Nil Rahola, et al.. (2022). Diurnal biting of malaria mosquitoes in the Central African Republic indicates residual transmission may be “out of control”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(21). e2104282119–e2104282119. 53 indexed citations
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Makunin, Alex, Diégo Ayala, Abdoulaye Diabaté, et al.. (2022). High-resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences. eLife. 11. 6 indexed citations
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Zouache, Karima, Edwige Martin, Nil Rahola, et al.. (2022). Larval habitat determines the bacterial and fungal microbiota of the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 98(1). 27 indexed citations
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Vargas-Chávez, Carlos, et al.. (2021). Transposable element variants and their potential adaptive impact in urban populations of the malaria vector Anopheles coluzzii. Genome Research. 32(1). 189–202. 7 indexed citations
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Crava, Cristina M., Finny S. Varghese, Rebecca Halbach, et al.. (2021). Population genomics in the arboviral vector Aedes aegypti reveals the genomic architecture and evolution of endogenous viral elements. Molecular Ecology. 30(7). 1594–1611. 37 indexed citations
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Dweck, Hany K. M., Joel Lutomiah, Rosemary Sang, et al.. (2021). Larval sites of the mosquito Aedes aegypti formosus in forest and domestic habitats in Africa and the potential association with oviposition evolution. Ecology and Evolution. 11(22). 16327–16343. 25 indexed citations
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Jiolle, Davy, Isabelle Moltini-Conclois, Judicaël Obame‐Nkoghe, et al.. (2021). Experimental infections with Zika virus strains reveal high vector competence of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti populations from Gabon (Central Africa) for the African virus lineage. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 10(1). 1244–1253. 3 indexed citations
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Makunin, Alex, Petra Korlević, Naomi Park, et al.. (2021). A targeted amplicon sequencing panel to simultaneously identify mosquito species and Plasmodium presence across the entire Anopheles genus. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(1). 28–44. 23 indexed citations
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Villoutreix, Romain, Diégo Ayala, Mathieu Joron, et al.. (2021). Inversion breakpoints and the evolution of supergenes. Molecular Ecology. 30(12). 2738–2755. 48 indexed citations
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Dickson, Laura B., Sarah H. Merkling, Mathieu Gautier, et al.. (2020). Exome-wide association study reveals largely distinct gene sets underlying specific resistance to dengue virus types 1 and 3 in Aedes aegypti. PLoS Genetics. 16(5). e1008794–e1008794. 11 indexed citations
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Rose, Noah H., Massamba Sylla, Athanase Badolo, et al.. (2020). Climate and Urbanization Drive Mosquito Preference for Humans. Current Biology. 30(18). 3570–3579.e6. 149 indexed citations
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Binetruy, Florian, Marie Buysse, Nil Rahola, et al.. (2020). Microbial community structure reveals instability of nutritional symbiosis during the evolutionary radiation of Amblyomma ticks. Molecular Ecology. 29(5). 1016–1029. 44 indexed citations
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Ayala, Diégo, Nil Rahola, Pierre Kengne, et al.. (2019). Natural Wolbachia infections are common in the major malaria vectors in Central Africa. Evolutionary Applications. 12(8). 1583–1594. 33 indexed citations
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Barrón, Maite G., Christophe Paupy, Nil Rahola, et al.. (2019). A new species in the major malaria vector complex sheds light on reticulated species evolution. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14753–14753. 53 indexed citations
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Obame‐Nkoghe, Judicaël, Nil Rahola, Diégo Ayala, et al.. (2017). Exploring the diversity of blood-sucking Diptera in caves of Central Africa. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 250–250. 12 indexed citations
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Obame‐Nkoghe, Judicaël, Nil Rahola, Mathieu Bourgarel, et al.. (2016). Bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) infesting cave-dwelling bats in Gabon: diversity, dynamics and potential role in Polychromophilus melanipherus transmission. Parasites & Vectors. 9(1). 333–333. 37 indexed citations
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Ayala, Diégo, et al.. (2007). Holistic approach to the rehabilitation of Foundouks in Morocco. APT Bulletin. 38.

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