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  1. How do parasites manipulate their hosts — and what can we do with that knowledge?

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Luis M. Silva

  2. When parasites wait to transmit, they become deadlier — and not only the time within the host matter

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, June 2025, PLOS

    Luis M. Silva

  3. Controlling the controller: suppressing microsporidia in their mosquito hosts

    Article • Acta Tropica, June 2025, Elsevier

    Luis M. Silva

  4. What if transmission isn’t a single event, but an evolving ecological process?

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, March 2025, PLOS

    Luis M. Silva

  5. Vavraia culicis

    Article • Trends in Parasitology, March 2025, Elsevier

    Luis M. Silva

  6. Mechanisms of host exploitation by a microsporidian parasite

    Article • December 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Luis M. Silva

  7. Energetic shifts reflect survival likelihood in Anopheles gambiae

    Article • December 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Luis M. Silva

  8. Exposure to Pseudomonas spp. increases Anopheles gambiae insecticide resistance in a host-dependent manner

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Luis M. Silva

  9. Dexrazoxane as a viable microsporidia control agent inAnopheles gambiae

    Article • October 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Luis M. Silva

  10. The transcriptome of the mosquito host Anopheles gambiae upon infection by different selected lines of the microsporidian parasite Vavraia culicis

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Luis M. Silva

  11. Virulence evolution: thinking outside of the host

    Article • May 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Luis M. Silva

  12. Dissecting transmission to understand parasite evolution

    Article • April 2024, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Luis M. Silva

  13. Complex interactions in the life cycle of a simple parasite shape the evolution of virulence

    Article • January 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Luis M. Silva

  14. Exposure toPseudomonas spp.increasesAnopheles gambiaeinsecticide resistance in a host-dependent manner

    Article • November 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Luis M. Silva

  15. Decomposing virulence to understand bacterial clearance in persistent infections

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Luis M. Silva

  16. Decomposing virulence to understand bacterial clearance in persistent infections

    Article • March 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Luis M. Silva