Publications
30
Citations
772
Est. group size
~2
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
17
Publishing since 2009
Luis Eduardo Martínez Villegas studies disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti and Anopheles species) and sand flies, focusing on how bacteria living in and around these insects, along with pathogens like Zika, dengue, and malaria parasites, affect insect behavior, development, and disease transmission. This work combines genomics, microbiome analysis, and laboratory studies of insect physiology to better understand how disease-carrying insects interact with the microbes and viruses they carry.
Publication output has been steady to slightly increasing over the last decade, rising from about 1-2 papers per year in 2017-2019 to a more consistent 3-4 papers per year from 2020 to 2024.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Egg-laying by female Aedes aegypti shapes the bacterial communities of breeding sites
BMC Biology · 2023
- Unravelling the genome of the brackish water malaria vector Anopheles aquasalis
Scientific Reports · 2023
- Egg-laying by female <i>Aedes aegypti</i> shapes the bacterial communities of breeding sites
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022
- The genome of the brackish-water malaria vector <i>Anopheles aquasalis</i>
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022
- Multi-Omic Analysis of Symbiotic Bacteria Associated With Aedes aegypti Breeding Sites
Frontiers in Microbiology · 2021
- Phenotypic traits of individuals in a long-term colony of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) aquasalis (Diptera: Culicidae) show variable susceptibility to Plasmodium and suggest cryptic speciation
Acta Tropica · 2021
- Dengue infection modulates locomotion and host seeking in Aedes aegypti
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020
- Tripartite interactions: Leishmania, microbiota and Lutzomyia longipalpis
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020
- Co-existing locomotory activity and gene expression profiles in a kissing-bug vector of Chagas disease
Journal of Insect Physiology · 2020
- Vertical Transmission of Zika Virus (Flaviviridae, Flavivirus) in Amazonian Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Delays Egg Hatching and Larval Development of Progeny
Journal of Medical Entomology · 2019
- Characterization of the complete mitogenome of Anopheles aquasalis, and phylogenetic divergences among Anopheles from diverse geographic zones
PLoS ONE · 2019
- Zika virus infection modulates the bacterial diversity associated with Aedes aegypti as revealed by metagenomic analysis
PLoS ONE · 2018
- Bacterial diversity of wild-caught Lutzomyia longipalpis (a vector of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil) under distinct physiological conditions by metagenomics analysis
Parasites & Vectors · 2017
- Zika virus transmission to mouse ear by mosquito bite: a laboratory model that replicates the natural transmission process
Parasites & Vectors · 2017
- Bacterial diversity of the American sand fly Lutzomyia intermedia using high-throughput metagenomic sequencing
Parasites & Vectors · 2016
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×5
- PLoS ONE×4
- PLoS neglected tropical diseases×3
- Parasites & Vectors×3
- Microbiome×1
- Richard W. Hardy
Medicine · Indiana University
- Osvaldo Marinotti
Medicine · Indiana University
- Brendan J. Kelly
Medicine · The Ohio State University
- Devika Sirohi
Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Andrew S. Miller
Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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