Elena A. Levashina

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

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Elena A. Levashina is a scholar working on Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Elena A. Levashina has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Immunology, 41 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 29 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Elena A. Levashina's work include Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (54 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (32 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (29 papers). Elena A. Levashina is often cited by papers focused on Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (54 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (32 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (29 papers). Elena A. Levashina collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United Kingdom. Elena A. Levashina's co-authors include Stéphanie Blandin, Fotis C. Kafatos, Luís F. Moita, Jules A. Hoffmann, Marie Lagueux, Shin-Hong Shiao, Jean‐Marc Reichhart, Éric Marois, Miranda M. A. Whitten and Chris J. Janse and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Elena A. Levashina

72 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Constitutive Activation of Toll-Mediated Antifungal Defense in Serpin-Deficient Drosophila

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elena A. Levashina France	41	3.4k	2.8k	2.5k	1.5k	657	73	5.5k
Paul T. Brey France	35	2.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	654 1.0×	107	4.3k
Chu‐Fang Lo Taiwan	54	8.3k 2.5×	4.1k 1.4×	1.4k 0.6×	2.5k 1.6×	491 0.7×	173	10.2k
Osvaldo Marinotti United States	38	1.2k 0.4×	2.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	743 1.1×	117	4.5k
Dominique Ferrandon France	31	4.5k 1.3×	3.6k 1.3×	696 0.3×	2.1k 1.4×	1.4k 2.2×	66	6.7k
Eric Calvo United States	35	1.3k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	904 0.6×	315 0.5×	104	3.4k
Jean‐Luc Imler France	47	4.8k 1.4×	3.3k 1.2×	1.4k 0.6×	2.9k 1.9×	1.0k 1.6×	98	8.4k
Stéphanie Blandin France	22	1.8k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	914 0.6×	330 0.5×	41	2.8k
José L. Ramírez United States	30	1.5k 0.4×	2.8k 1.0×	2.7k 1.1×	918 0.6×	205 0.3×	70	4.8k
Hervé Agaisse United States	30	1.4k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	624 0.2×	2.4k 1.5×	399 0.6×	66	4.6k
Lindsey S. Garver United States	19	1.6k 0.5×	947 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	841 0.6×	219 0.3×	32	3.0k

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Kappler, Christine, et al.. (2025). The major role of the REL2/NF-κB pathway in the regulation of midgut bacterial homeostasis in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Cell Reports. 44(9). 116282–116282.

Levashina, Elena A., Dominique Soldati‐Favre, Andrew P. Waters, Friedrich Frischknecht, & Julian C. Rayner. (2023). Malaria: moving beyond the search for magic bullets. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 15(11). e18727–e18727. 2 indexed citations

Carrillo-Bustamante, Paola, et al.. (2023). Evolutionary modelling indicates that mosquito metabolism shapes the life-history strategies of Plasmodium parasites. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8139–8139. 6 indexed citations

Costa, Giulia, Clare Burn Aschner, Anna Obraztsova, et al.. (2023). Molecular and functional properties of human Plasmodium falciparum CSP C‐terminus antibodies. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 15(6). e17454–e17454. 5 indexed citations

Murugan, Rajagopal, S.W. Scally, Giulia Costa, et al.. (2020). Evolution of protective human antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein repeat motifs. Nature Medicine. 26(7). 1135–1145. 47 indexed citations

Costa, Giulia, Rajagopal Murugan, David Oyen, et al.. (2020). A high-affinity antibody against the CSP N-terminal domain lacks Plasmodium falciparum inhibitory activity. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(11). 19 indexed citations

Hou, Chun-Feng David, et al.. (2019). Anopheles gambiae TEP1 forms a complex with the coiled-coil domain of LRIM1/APL1C following a conformational change in the thioester domain. PLoS ONE. 14(6). e0218203–e0218203. 7 indexed citations

Kierszniowska, Sylwia, et al.. (2019). Metabolic balancing by miR-276 shapes the mosquito reproductive cycle and Plasmodium falciparum development. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5634–5634. 29 indexed citations

Imkeller, Katharina, S.W. Scally, Alexandre Bosch, et al.. (2018). Antihomotypic affinity maturation improves human B cell responses against a repetitive epitope. Science. 360(6395). 1358–1362. 64 indexed citations

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Murugan, Rajagopal, Lisa Buchauer, Gianna Triller, et al.. (2018). Clonal selection drives protective memory B cell responses in controlled human malaria infection. Science Immunology. 3(20). 87 indexed citations

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Severo, Maiara S., Jonathan J. M. Landry, Randall L. Lindquist, et al.. (2018). Unbiased classification of mosquito blood cells by single-cell genomics and high-content imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(32). E7568–E7577. 49 indexed citations

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Rausch, Sebastian, et al.. (2018). Micromanaging Immunity in the Murine Host vs. the Mosquito Vector: Microbiota-Dependent Immune Responses to Intestinal Parasites. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 8. 308–308. 10 indexed citations

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Scally, S.W., Rajagopal Murugan, Alexandre Bosch, et al.. (2017). Rare PfCSP C-terminal antibodies induced by live sporozoite vaccination are ineffective against malaria infection. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 215(1). 63–75. 60 indexed citations

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Levashina, Elena A., et al.. (2017). MicroRNA Tissue Atlas of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(1). 185–193. 18 indexed citations

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Levashina, Elena A., et al.. (2017). NF-κB-Like Signaling Pathway REL2 in Immune Defenses of the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 7. 258–258. 20 indexed citations

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Eldering, Maarten, Isabelle Morlais, Geert‐Jan van Gemert, et al.. (2016). Variation in susceptibility of African Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites to TEP1 mediated killing in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 20440–20440. 33 indexed citations

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Pompon, Julien & Elena A. Levashina. (2015). A New Role of the Mosquito Complement-like Cascade in Male Fertility in Anopheles gambiae. PLoS Biology. 13(9). e1002255–e1002255. 39 indexed citations

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Severo, Maiara S. & Elena A. Levashina. (2014). Mosquito defenses against Plasmodium parasites. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 3. 30–36. 16 indexed citations

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Blandin, Stéphanie, Luís F. Moita, Thomas Köcher, et al.. (2002). Reverse genetics in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae : targeted disruption of the Defensin gene. EMBO Reports. 3(9). 852–856. 289 indexed citations

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Levashina, Elena A.. (1995). Metchnikowin, a novel immune-inducible proline-rich peptide from Drosophila with antibacterial and antifungal properties. Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 233. 694–700. 4 indexed citations

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