Polymorphism analyses and protein modelling inform on functional specialization of Piwi clade genes in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus

• Michele Marconcini,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6785-9106

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• Luis Hernandez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Giuseppe Iovino,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Vincent Houé,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Arbovirus and Insect Vectors Units, Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Federica Valerio,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Umberto Palatini,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Elisa Pischedda,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Jacob E. Crawford,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Verily Life Sciences, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Bradley J. White,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Verily Life Sciences, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Teresa Lin,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Verily Life Sciences, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Lino Ometto,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2679-625X

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• Federico Forneris,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7818-1804

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• Anna-Bella Failloux,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arbovirus and Insect Vectors Units, Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Mariangela Bonizzoni

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mariangela.bonizzoni@unipv.it

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0568-8564

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