| Autocrine mitogenic activity of pheromones produced by the protozoan ciliate Euplotes raikovi A Vallesi, G Giuli, RA Bradshaw, P Luporini Nature 376 (6540), 522-524, 1995 | 85 | 1995 |
| Chemical signaling in ciliates P LUPORINI, A VALLESI, C MICELI, RA BRADSHAW Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 42 (3), 208-212, 1995 | 74 | 1995 |
| Detection of a novel subspecies of Francisella noatunensis as endosymbiont of the ciliate Euplotes raikovi M Schrallhammer, M Schweikert, A Vallesi, F Verni, G Petroni Microbial ecology 61 (2), 455-464, 2011 | 61 | 2011 |
| Beyond the “Code”: a guide to the description and documentation of biodiversity in ciliated protists (Alveolata, Ciliophora) A Warren, DJ Patterson, M Dunthorn, JC Clamp, UEM Achilles‐Day, ... Journal of eukaryotic Microbiology 64 (4), 539-554, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Primary structure of Euplotes raikovi pheromones: comparison of five sequences of pheromones from cells with variable mating interactions S Raffioni, C Miceli, A Vallesi, SK Chowdhury, BT Chait, P Luporini, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 89 (6), 2071-2075, 1992 | 54 | 1992 |
| Ciliate mating types and their specific protein pheromones P Luporini, C Alimenti, C Ortenzi, A Vallesi Acta Protozool 44, 89-101, 2005 | 42 | 2005 |
| The Autocrine Mitogenic Loop of the Ciliate Euplotes raikovi: The Pheromone Membrane-bound Forms Are the Cell Binding Sites and Potential Signaling … C Ortenzi, C Alimenti, A Vallesi, B Di Pretoro, AL Terza, P Luporini Molecular biology of the cell 11 (4), 1445-1455, 2000 | 42 | 2000 |
| Antarctic and Arctic populations of the ciliate Euplotes nobilii show common pheromone-mediated cell-cell signaling and cross-mating G Di Giuseppe, F Erra, F Dini, C Alimenti, A Vallesi, B Pedrini, K Wüthrich, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (8), 3181-3186, 2011 | 39 | 2011 |
| Autocrine, mitogenic pheromone receptor loop of the ciliate Euplotes raikovi: pheromone-induced receptor internalization A Vallesi, P Ballarini, B Di Pretoro, C Alimenti, C Miceli, P Luporini Eukaryotic cell 4 (7), 1221-1227, 2005 | 35 | 2005 |
| Molecular cold‐adaptation: Comparative analysis of two homologous families of psychrophilic and mesophilic signal proteins of the protozoan ciliate, Euplotes C Alimenti, A Vallesi, B Pedrini, K Wüthrich, P Luporini IUBMB life 61 (8), 838-845, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| Pheromone evolution in the protozoan ciliate, Euplotes: the ability to synthesize diffusible forms is ancestral and secondarily lost A Vallesi, G Di Giuseppe, F Dini, P Luporini Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 47 (1), 439-442, 2008 | 32 | 2008 |
| Improved description of the bipolar ciliate, Euplotes petzi, and definition of its basal position in the Euplotes phylogenetic tree G Di Giuseppe, F Erra, FP Frontini, F Dini, A Vallesi, P Luporini European journal of protistology 50 (4), 402-411, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
| Structure–Function Relationships of Pheromones of the CiliateEuplotes raikoviwith Mammalian Growth Factors: Cross-Reactivity between Er-1 and Interleukin-2 Systems A Vallesi, G Giuli, P Ghiara, G Scapigliati, P Luporini Experimental cell research 241 (1), 253-259, 1998 | 27 | 1998 |
| Developmental analysis of the cell recognition mechanism in the ciliate Euplotes raikovi P Luporini, C Miceli, C Ortenzi, A Vallesi Developmental genetics 13 (1), 9-15, 1992 | 21 | 1992 |
| The cell type-specific signal proteins (pheromones) of protozoan ciliates P Luporini, A Vallesi, C Alimenti, C Ortenzi Current pharmaceutical design 12 (24), 3015-3024, 2006 | 20 | 2006 |
| Ciliate pheromones as early growth factors and cytokines. P Luporini, A Vallesi, C Miceli, RA Bradshaw Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 712, 195-205, 1994 | 20 | 1994 |
| Complete genome sequence of Francisella endociliophora strain FSC1006, isolated from a laboratory culture of the marine ciliate Euplotes raikovi A Sjödin, C Öhrman, S Bäckman, A Lärkeryd, M Granberg, E Lundmark, ... Genome announcements 2 (6), 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Phylogeographical pattern of Euplotes nobilii, a protist ciliate with a bipolar biogeographical distribution G Di Giuseppe, M Barbieri, A Vallesi, P Luporini, F Dini Molecular ecology 22 (15), 4029-4037, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Evidence for Gene Duplication and Allelic Codominance (not Hierarchical Dominance) at the Mating‐Type Locus of the Ciliate, Euplotes crassus A Vallesi, C Alimenti, S Federici, G Di Giuseppe, F Dini, G Guella, ... Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 61 (6), 620-629, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| Isolation and Structural Characterization of Two Water‐Borne Pheromones from Euplotes crassus, a Ciliate Commonly Known to Carry Membrane‐Bound … C Alimenti, A Vallesi, S Federici, G Di Giuseppe, D Fernando, V Carratore, ... Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 58 (3), 234-241, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
