Gaetan Burgio

Interspecific recombinant congenic strains between C57BL/6 and mice of the Mus spretus species: a powerful tool to dissect genetic control of complex traits.

Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci responsible for embryonic lethality in mice assessed by ultrasonography.

Genetic analysis of skull shape variation and morphological integration in the mouse using interspecific recombinant congenic strains between C57BL/6 and mice of the mus spretus species.

Host resistance to malaria: using mouse models to explore the host response.

Nasal bone shape is under complex epistatic genetic control in mouse interspecific recombinant congenic strains.

A novel ENU-mutation in ankyrin-1 disrupts malaria parasite maturation in red blood cells of mice.

Refined mapping of a quantitative trait locus on chromosome 1 responsible for mouse embryonic death.

Exploration of the genetic organization of morphological modularity on the mouse mandible using a set of interspecific recombinant congenic strains between C57BL/6 and mice of the Mus spretus species.

Platelet factor 4 and Duffy antigen required for platelet killing of Plasmodium falciparum.

New insights into the protective power of platelets in malaria infection.

A flow cytometric assay to quantify invasion of red blood cells by rodent Plasmodium parasites in vivo.

Treatment of erythrocytes with the 2-cys peroxiredoxin inhibitor, Conoidin A, prevents the growth of Plasmodium falciparum and enhances parasite sensitivity to chloroquine.

Red cells from ferrochelatase-deficient erythropoietic protoporphyria patients are resistant to growth of malarial parasites.