Publications
Submitted.
“20-Hydroxyecdysone Primes Innate Immune Responses That Limit Bacterial and Malarial Parasite Survival in Anopheles gambiae”, Msphere, vol. 5, no. 2, 2020.
, “Crossover dynamics of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) vector populations determine WNV transmission intensity”, Journal of Medical Entomology, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 289-296, 2020.
, “Highlights in Medical Entomology, 2019: Familiar Foes and New Frontiers”, Journal of Medical Entomology, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1349-1353, 2020.
, “An Improved Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Assay for the Identification of Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Blood Meals”, Journal of Medical Entomology, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 557-562, 2020.
, “Chemical depletion of phagocytic immune cells in Anopheles gambiae reveals dual roles of mosquito hemocytes in anti-Plasmodium immunity”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, no. 28, pp. 14119-14128, 2019.
, “Inhibitors of Eicosanoid Biosynthesis Reveal that Multiple Lipid Signaling Pathways Influence Malaria Parasite Survival in Anopheles gambiae”, Insects, vol. 10, no. 10, p. 307, 2019.
, “Long-term surveillance defines spatial and temporal patterns implicating Culex tarsalis as the primary vector of West Nile virus”, Scientific reports, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-10, 2019.
, “Malaria parasite immune evasion and adaptation to its mosquito host is influenced by the acquisition of multiple blood meals”, bioRxiv, p. 801480, 2019.
, “Satellite imaging and long-term mosquito surveillance implicate the influence of rapid urbanization on Culex vector populations”, Insects, vol. 10, no. 9, p. 269, 2019.
, “Skunk River virus, a novel orbivirus isolated from Aedes trivittatus in the United States”, Journal of General Virology, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 295-300, 2019.
, “Twenty years of West Nile virus spread and evolution in the Americas visualized by Nextstrain”, PLoS pathogens, vol. 15, no. 10, p. e1008042, 2019.
, “Surveillance of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Southern Iowa, 2016”, Journal of Medical Entomology, 2018.
, “Late-phase immune responses limiting oocyst survival are independent of TEP1 function yet display strain specific differences in Anopheles gambiae.”, Parasit Vectors, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 369, 2017.
, “Leucokinin mimetic elicits aversive behavior in mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.) and inhibits the sugar taste neuron.”, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 25, pp. 6880-6885, 2016.
, “Molecular profiling of phagocytic immune cells in Anopheles gambiae reveals integral roles for hemocytes in mosquito innate immunity”, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 2016.
, “Plasmodium oocysts: Overlooked targets of mosquito immunity”, Trends in Parasitology, 2016.
, “Species-specific escape of Plasmodium sporozoites from oocysts of avian, rodent, and human malarial parasites”, Malaria Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 394, 2016.
, “Hemocyte differentiation mediates the mosquito late-phase immune response against Plasmodium in Anopheles gambiae”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112, no. 26, pp. E3412-20, 2015.
, “Malaria parasite Pfs47 disrupts JNK signaling to escape mosquito immunity”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112, no. 5, pp. 1250-1, 2015.
, “Immunization against a merozoite sheddase promotes multiple invasion of red blood cells and attenuates Plasmodium infection in mice”, Malaria journal, vol. 13, p. 313, 2014.
, “The Plasmodium bottleneck: malaria parasite losses in the mosquito vector”, Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, vol. 109, 2014.
, “Enterobacter-activated mosquito immune responses to Plasmodium involve activation of SRPN6 in Anopheles stephensi”, PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 5, p. e62937, 2013.
, “IPB7 transposase behavior in Drosophila melanogaster and Aedes aegypti”, Insect biochemistry and molecular biology, vol. 43, pp. 899-906, 2013.
, “Transgenic Mosquitoes Expressing a Phospholipase A2 Gene Have a Fitness Advantage When Fed Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Blood”, PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 10, p. e76097, 2013.
, “Regulation of anti-Plasmodium immunity by a LITAF-like transcription factor in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae”, PLoS Pathog, vol. 8, no. 10, p. e1002965, 2012.
, “Mobility properties of the Hermes transposable element in transgenic lines of Aedes aegypti”, Genetica, vol. 139, no. 1, pp. 7-22, 2011.
, “Phylogenetic and functional characterization of the hAT transposon superfamily”, Genetics, vol. 188, no. 1, pp. 45-57, 2011.
, “Plasmodium–mosquito interactions: a tale of roadblocks and detours”, Advances in insect physiology, vol. 39, p. 119, 2010.
, “Procalin polypeptides, antigens, and methods of use”. US Patent App. 12/729,203, 2010.
, Germ Line Expression of Genetic Markers and Transposases in the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes Aegypti. ProQuest, 2007.
, “Testis‐specific expression of the β2 tubulin promoter of Aedes aegypti and its application as a genetic sex‐separation marker”, Insect molecular biology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 61-71, 2007.
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