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Davide Sassera
Researcher at University of Pavia
Publications - 128
Citations - 2850
Davide Sassera is an academic researcher from University of Pavia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ixodes ricinus & Tick. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 112 publications receiving 2159 citations. Previous affiliations of Davide Sassera include University of Milan.
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'Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii', an endosymbiont of the tick Ixodes ricinus with a unique intramitochondrial lifestyle
Davide Sassera,Tiziana Beninati,Claudio Bandi,Edwin A. P. Bouman,Luciano Sacchi,Massimo Fabbi,Nathan Lo +6 more
TL;DR: 'Candidatus M. mitochondrii' is the first bacterium to be identified that resides within animal mitochondria and was found to be localized both in the cytoplasm and in the intermembrane space of the mitochondria of ovarian cells.
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Phylogenomic evidence for the presence of a flagellum and cbb3 oxidase in the free-living mitochondrial ancestor
Davide Sassera,Nathan Lo,Sara Epis,Giuseppe D'Auria,Matteo Montagna,Francesco Comandatore,David S. Horner,Juli Peretó,Juli Peretó,Alberto M. Luciano,Federica Franciosi,Emanuele Ferri,Elena Crotti,Chiara Bazzocchi,Daniele Daffonchio,Luciano Sacchi,Andrés Moya,Andrés Moya,Amparo Latorre,Amparo Latorre,Claudio Bandi +20 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that the FMA played a more active and potentially parasitic role in eukaryogenesis than currently appreciated and provide an explanation for how the symbiosis could have evolved under low levels of oxygen.
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Midichloria mitochondrii is widespread in hard ticks (Ixodidae) and resides in the mitochondria of phylogenetically diverse species.
Sara Epis,Davide Sassera,Tiziana Beninati,Nathan Lo,Lorenza Beati,Joseph Piesman,Laura Rinaldi,Karen D. McCoy,Alessandra Torina,Luciano Sacchi,E. Clementi,Marco Genchi,S. Magnino,Claudio Bandi +13 more
TL;DR: A PCR screening for Midichloria-related bacteria in samples of ixodid ticks collected in Italy, North America and Iceland revealed that the bacteria form a monophyletic group within the order Rickettsiales, which indicates that bacteria invade mitochondria in at least 2 tick species.
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Widespread distribution and high prevalence of an alpha‐proteobacterial symbiont in the tick Ixodes ricinus
Nathan Lo,Nathan Lo,Tiziana Beninati,Davide Sassera,Edwin A. P. Bouman,S. Santagati,Lise Gern,Vittorio Sambri,T. Masuzawa,J.S. Gray,Thomas G. T. Jaenson,Ali Bouattour,M. J. Kenny,E. S. Guner,I. G. Kharitonenkov,Idir Bitam,Claudio Bandi +16 more
TL;DR: To the authors' knowledge, IricES1 is the most widespread and highly prevalent of any tick-associated symbiont, including tick colonies that have been maintained in the laboratory for varying periods of time.
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"Candidatus Midichloriaceae" fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an ecologically widespread clade of intracellular alphaproteobacteria.
Matteo Montagna,Davide Sassera,Sara Epis,Chiara Bazzocchi,Claudia Vannini,Nathan Lo,Luciano Sacchi,Takema Fukatsu,Giulio Petroni,Claudio Bandi +9 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that aquatic/environmental protista have acted as evolutionary reservoirs for members of this novel family, from which one or more lineages with the capacity of infecting metazoa have evolved.