A. Scarpa, R. Pianezza, F. Wierzbicki, & R. Kofler, Genomes of historical specimens reveal multiple invasions of LTR retrotransposons inDrosophila melanogasterduring the 19th century, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.121 (15)(2024). PDF

Almorò Scarpa, Robert Kofler, The impact of paramutations on the invasion dynamics of transposable elements, Genetics, Volume 225, Issue 4, December 2023. PDF

Pianezza R, Scarpa A, Narayanan P, Signor S, Kofler R. Spoink, a LTR retrotransposon, invaded D. melanogaster populations in the 1990s. PLoS Genet. 2024. PDF

Riccardo Pianezza, Almorò Scarpa, Anna Haider, Sarah Signor, Robert Kofler, Spatiotemporal Tracking of Three Novel Transposable Element Invasions in Drosophila melanogaster over the Last 30 Years, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 42, Issue 7, July 2025. PDF

Scarpa, A., Pianezza, R., Gellert, H.R. et al. Double trouble: two retrotransposons triggered a cascade of invasions in Drosophila species within the last 50 years. Nat Commun 16, 516 (2025). PDF