Gennaro Di Prisco

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Gennaro Di Prisco is a scholar working on Insect Science, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gennaro Di Prisco has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Insect Science, 19 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Gennaro Di Prisco's work include Insect and Pesticide Research (23 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (18 papers) and Plant and animal studies (17 papers). Gennaro Di Prisco is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Pesticide Research (23 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (18 papers) and Plant and animal studies (17 papers). Gennaro Di Prisco collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Gennaro Di Prisco's co-authors include Emilio Caprio, Francesco Pennacchio, Francesco Nazzi, Desiderato Annoscia, Paola Varricchio, Valeria Cavaliere, Giuseppe Gargiulo, Jay D. Evans, Humberto Boncristiani and Sam P. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gennaro Di Prisco

24 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Neonicotinoid clothianidin adversely affects insect immunity and promotes replication of a viral pathogen in honey bees

2013 529 citations Gennaro Di Prisco, Desiderato Annoscia et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Synergistic Parasite-Pathogen Interactions Mediated by Host Immunity Can Drive the Collapse of Honeybee Colonies

2012 367 citations Francesco Nazzi, Sam P. Brown et al. PLoS Pathogens profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gennaro Di Prisco Italy	18	1.9k	1.5k	1.5k	218	85	25	2.0k
Aleš Gregorc Slovenia	28	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	243 1.1×	118 1.4×	75	1.9k
Emilio Caprio Italy	17	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	264 1.2×	77 0.9×	28	1.9k
Marion D. Ellis United States	13	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	319 1.5×	88 1.0×	35	1.9k
Marianne Cousin France	16	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	937 0.6×	152 0.7×	46 0.5×	19	1.3k
Desiderato Annoscia Italy	14	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	140 0.6×	37 0.4×	24	1.6k
Geoffrey R. Williams United States	28	2.8k 1.5×	2.4k 1.6×	2.3k 1.6×	240 1.1×	68 0.8×	75	3.0k
Ralph Büchler Germany	24	2.4k 1.3×	2.2k 1.5×	2.1k 1.4×	205 0.9×	32 0.4×	57	2.5k
Margaret I. Steele United States	7	986 0.5×	739 0.5×	608 0.4×	66 0.3×	91 1.1×	8	1.1k
Marina D. Meixner Germany	27	3.6k 1.9×	3.2k 2.2×	3.1k 2.1×	259 1.2×	69 0.8×	60	3.7k
Claudia Dussaubat France	12	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	114 0.5×	31 0.4×	13	1.4k

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Michez, Denis, Simone Flaminio, Serena Flori, et al.. (2025). Assessing wild bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Calabria (southern Italy). The European Zoological Journal. 92(1). 769–780.

Power, Karen A., et al.. (2025). Effects of pollen enriched diet on hypopharyngeal glands’ morphology and morphometry and vitellogenin transcription levels in honey bees. Italian Journal of Animal Science. 24(1). 484–492. 1 indexed citations

Prisco, Gennaro Di, et al.. (2024). Assessing the conservation status of diurnal Lepidoptera in the Vesuvius National Park. RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA. 14(2). 103–123. 1 indexed citations

Flaminio, Simone, et al.. (2024). Italian wild bees biodiversity and Vesuvius National Park. RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA. 14(2). 125–140. 2 indexed citations

Sené, Déborah, Denis Michez, Piotr Mędrzycki, et al.. (2021). Pollen nutrition fosters honeybee tolerance to pesticides. Royal Society Open Science. 8(9). 210818–210818. 52 indexed citations

Papa, Giulia, Gennaro Di Prisco, Giulia Spini, Edoardo Puglisi, & Ilaria Negri. (2021). Acute and chronic effects of Titanium dioxide (TiO2) PM1 on honey bee gut microbiota under laboratory conditions. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5946–5946. 18 indexed citations

Annoscia, Desiderato, Gennaro Di Prisco, Andrea Becchimanzi, et al.. (2020). Neonicotinoid Clothianidin reduces honey bee immune response and contributes to Varroa mite proliferation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5887–5887. 59 indexed citations

Dalmon, Anne, Gennaro Di Prisco, Alberto Prado, et al.. (2020). Interactions Between Thiamethoxam and Deformed Wing Virus Can Drastically Impair Flight Behavior of Honey Bees. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 766–766. 33 indexed citations

Annoscia, Desiderato, Sam P. Brown, Gennaro Di Prisco, et al.. (2019). Haemolymph removal by Varroa mite destabilizes the dynamical interaction between immune effectors and virus in bees, as predicted by Volterra's model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1901). 20190331–20190331. 64 indexed citations

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Schurr, Frank M., Anne‐Claire Martel, Nicolas Cougoule, et al.. (2019). Influence of chronic exposure to thiamethoxam and chronic bee paralysis virus on winter honey bees. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0220703–e0220703. 22 indexed citations

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Mauriello, Gianluigi, Annachiara De Prisco, Gennaro Di Prisco, Antonietta La Storia, & Emilio Caprio. (2017). Microbial characterization of bee pollen from the Vesuvius area collected by using three different traps. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0183208–e0183208. 37 indexed citations

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Prisco, Gennaro Di, et al.. (2017). The neonicotinoid insecticide Clothianidin adversely affects immune signaling in a human cell line. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 13446–13446. 32 indexed citations

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Prisco, Gennaro Di, Desiderato Annoscia, Paola Varricchio, et al.. (2016). A mutualistic symbiosis between a parasitic mite and a pathogenic virus undermines honey bee immunity and health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(12). 3203–3208. 201 indexed citations

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Negri, Ilaria, Christian Mavris, Gennaro Di Prisco, Emilio Caprio, & Marco Pellecchia. (2015). Honey Bees (Apis mellifera, L.) as Active Samplers of Airborne Particulate Matter. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132491–e0132491. 102 indexed citations

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Nazzi, Francesco, Desiderato Annoscia, Emilio Caprio, Gennaro Di Prisco, & Francesco Pennacchio. (2014). Honeybee immunity and colony losses. Institutional Research Information System (University of Udine). 5 indexed citations

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Lelio, Ilaria Di, Silvia Caccia, Mariangela Coppola, et al.. (2014). A Virulence Factor Encoded by a Polydnavirus Confers Tolerance to Transgenic Tobacco Plants against Lepidopteran Larvae, by Impairing Nutrient Absorption. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e113988–e113988. 16 indexed citations

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Lelio, Ilaria Di, Paola Varricchio, Gennaro Di Prisco, et al.. (2014). Functional analysis of an immune gene of Spodoptera littoralis by RNAi. Journal of Insect Physiology. 64. 90–97. 36 indexed citations

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Nazzi, Francesco, Sam P. Brown, Desiderato Annoscia, et al.. (2012). Synergistic Parasite-Pathogen Interactions Mediated by Host Immunity Can Drive the Collapse of Honeybee Colonies. PLoS Pathogens. 8(6). e1002735–e1002735. 367 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prisco, Gennaro Di, Francesco Pennacchio, Emilio Caprio, et al.. (2010). Varroa destructor is an effective vector of Israeli acute paralysis virus in the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Journal of General Virology. 92(1). 151–155. 206 indexed citations

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Boncristiani, Humberto, Gennaro Di Prisco, Jeffery S. Pettis, Michele Hamilton, & Yan Ping Chen. (2009). Molecular approaches to the analysis of deformed wing virus replication and pathogenesis in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Virology Journal. 6(1). 221–221. 54 indexed citations

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