Craig Coates
Genetic variation in 12S and 16S mitochondrial rDNA genes of four geographically isolated populations of Gulf Coast ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) (2009) Ketchum HR, Teel PD, Coates CJ, Strey OF, Longnecker MT
J Med Entomol. 2009 May; 46(3):482-9.
Helper-independent piggyBac plasmids for gene delivery approaches: strategies for avoiding potential genotoxic effects (2010) Urschitz J, Kawasumi M, Owens J, Morozumi K, Yamashiro H, Stoytchev I, Marh J, Dee JA, Kawamoto K, Coates CJ, Kaminski JM, Pelczar P, Yanagimachi R, Moisyadi S.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. May 4;107(18):8117-22
Steps toward targeted insertional mutagenesis with class II transposable elements (2008) Wu SC, Maragathavally KJ, Coates CJ, Kaminski JM. Methods Mol Biol. 2008;435:139-51.
Chimeric Mos1 and piggyBac transposases result in site-directed integration (2006) Maragathavally KJ, JM Kamsinski and CJ Coates FASEB J 20: E1188-E1195.
Mutant Mos1 mariner transposons are hyperactive in Aedes aegypti (2005) Pledger DW and CJ Coates Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35: 1199-1207.
Cloning and characterization of cDNA’s encoding putatice CTCF’s in the mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae (2005) Gray GE, CJ Coates BMC Molecular Biology 6: 16.
Sarah Hamer
Wild birds and the urban ecology of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2005-2010 (2012) Hamer SA, Goldberg TK, Kitron UD, Brawn JD, Anderson TK, Loss SR, Walker ED, Hamer GL. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012. 18:1589-1595.
Absence of Borrelia burgdorferi in widespread Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Tennessee (2012) Rosen ME, Hamer SA, Gerhardt RR, Jones CJ, Muller LI, Scott MC, Hickling GJ. J Med Entomol. 2012. In press, 6/2012.
Two boundaries separate Borrelia burgdorferi populations in North America (2012) Margos G, Tsao J, Castillo-Ramírez S, Girard Y, Hamer S, Hoen A, Lane R, Raper S, Ogden N. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012. 78:6059-6067.
Wild birds as sentinels for multiple zoonotic pathogens along an urban to rural gradient in greater Chicago, Illinois (2012) Hamer SA, EW Lehrer, Magle SB. Zoonoses Public Hlth. 2012. 59:355-364.
Geographic variation in the relationship between human Lyme disease incidence and the density of infected host-seeking Ixodes scapularis nymphs in the US (2012) Pepin KM, Eisen RJ, Mead PS, Piesman J, Fish D, Hoen AG, Barbour A, Hamer SA, Diuk-Wasser MA. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012. 86:1062-1071.
Synchronous phenology of juvenile Ixodes scapularis, vertebrate host associations, and patterns of Borrelia burgdorferi ribotypes in the midwestern United States (2012) Hamer SA, Hickling GJ, Sidge JL, Walker ED, Tsao JI. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2012. 3:65-74.
Gabe Hamer
Wild birds and the urban ecology of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2005-2010. (2012). Hamer, S. A., T. L. Goldberg, U. D. Kitron, J. D. Brawn, T. K. Anderson, S. R. Loss, E. D. Walker, G. L. Hamer. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012. 18:1589-1595.
Diversity of Wolbachia pipientis strain wPip in a genetically admixtured, above-ground Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) population: association with form molestus ancestry and host selection patterns. (2012). Morningstar, R. J., G. L. Hamer, T. L. Goldberg, S. Huang, T. G. Andreadis, E. D. Walker. Journal of Medical Entomology. 49: 474-481.
Weather variability affects abundance of larval Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) in storm water catch basins in suburban Chicago, USA, 2010. (2012). Gardner, A, G. L. Hamer, A. Hines, C. Newman, E. D. Walker, M. O. Ruiz. Journal of Medical Entomology. 49:270-276.
Evaluation of a stable isotope method to mark naturally-breeding mosquitoes for adult dispersal studies. (2012). Hamer, G. L., D. J. Donovan, R. Hood-Nowotny, M. G. Kaufman, T. L. Goldberg, E. D. Walker. Journal of Medical Entomology. 49:61-70.
Fine-scale variation in vector host use and force of infection drive localized patterns of West Nile virus transmission (2011). Hamer, G. L., L. F. Chaves, T. K. Anderson, U. D. Kitron, J. D. Brawn, M. O. Ruiz, S. R. Loss, E. D. Walker, T. L. Goldberg. PLoS ONE. 6:e23767.
Evaluation of a novel emergence trap to study Culex mosquitoes in urban catch basins. (2011). Hamer, G.L., P. H. Kelly, D. A. Focks, T. L. Goldberg, E. D. Walker. J Am Mosquito Control Association. 27:142-147.
Albert Mulenga
Disrupting the Amblyomma maericanoum (l.) CD147 receptor homolog prevents ticks from feeding to repletion and blocks spontaneous detachment of ticks from their host (2010) Mulenga A and Khumtong R
Ins. Bioch. Mol. Biol. 35: 1199-1207.
Silencing of three Amblyomma americanum (L.) insulin-like groth factor binding protein-related proteins prevents ticks from feeding to repletion (2010) Mulenga A and Khumtong R J. Exp. Biol. 213: 1153-1161.
Ixodes scapularis tick serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) gene family; Annotation and transcriptional analysis (2009) Mulenga A, Khumthong R and Chalaire, KC. BMC Genomics. 10: 217.
Molecular and expression analysis of a family of the Amblyomma americanum tick Lospins (2007) Mulenga A, Khumthong R, M Blandon J Exp Biol. 210 (Pt 18): 3188-3198.
Molecular and biological characterization of the Amblyomma americanum organic anion transporter polypeptide (2008) Mulenga A, Khumthong R, Chalaire KC, Strey O, Teel P.
J Exp Biol. 211(Pt 21): 3401-3408.
The molecular basis of the Amblyomma americanum tick attachment phase (2007) Mulenga A, M Blandon, R Khumthong Experimental and Applied Acarology 41: 267-287
The molecular and biological analysis of ixodid ticks histamine release factors (2005) Mulenga A and AF Azad Experimental and Applied Acarology. 37; 215 – 229.
Patricia Pietrantonio
Calcitonin receptor 1 (AedaeGPCRCAL1) hindgut expression and direct role in myotropic action in females of the mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.) (2013) Kwon H, Pietrantonio PV.
Role in diuresis of a calcitonin receptor (GPRCAL1) expressed in a distal-proximal gradient in renal organs of the mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.) (2012) Kwon H, Lu HL, Longnecker MT, Pietrantonio PV.
PLoS One. 2012;7(11):e50374. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050374.
A Calcium Bioluminescence Assay for Functional Analysis of Mosquito (Aedes aegypti) and Tick (Rhipicephalus microplus) G Protein-coupled Receptors (2011) H.-L. Lu, C. N. Kersch, S. Taneja-Bageshwar, P.V. Pietrantonio (2011) J. of Visualized Experiments 50, e2732
The kinin receptor is expressed in the Malpighian tubule stellate cells in the mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.): A new model needed to explain ion transport? (2011) H.-L.Lu, C. Kersch, P.V. Pietrantonio Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 41: 135-140
Mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.) leucokinin receptor is critical for in vivo fluid excretion post blood feeding (2011) Kersch CN, Pietrantonio PV FEBS Lett. 585(22): 3507-12.
Michel Slotman
Large Fluctuations in the Effective Population Size of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae s.s. During Vector Control Cycle (2013) Hodges TK, G Athrey, KC Deitz, HJ Overgaard, A Matias, A Caccone, and MA Slotman Evolutionary Applications 6: 1171-1183
The Effective Population Size of Malaria Mosquitoes: Large Impact of Vector Control (2012) Athrey G, TK Hodges, MR Reddy, HJ Overgaard, A Matias, FC Ridl, I Kleinschmidt, A Caccone, MA Slotman.
PLoS Genetics 8 (12): e1003097.
Malaria transmission after 5 years of vector control on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea (2012) Overgaard HJ, VP Reddy, S Abaga, A Matias, MR Reddy, V Kulkarni, C Schwabe, L Segura, I Kleinschmidt, MA Slotman. Parasites and Vectors 5: 253
Genetic Isolation within the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles melas (2012) K.C. Deitz, G. Athrey, M.R. Reddy, H.J. Overgaard, A.M. Matias, J. Musa, A. della Torre, J. Pinto, A. Kiszewski, C. Costantini, A. Caccone and M.A Slotman Molecular Ecology 21: 4498-4513.
Outdoor host-seeking behaviour of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes following initiation of malaria vector control on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea (2011) M.R. Reddy, H. J. Overgaard, S. Abaga, V. P. Reddy, A. Caccone, A. E. Kiszewski, M.A. Slotman Malaria Journal 10:184
Aaron Tarone
Components of developmental plasticity in a Michigan population of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (2006) A.M. Tarone and D.R. Foranv Journal of Medical Entomology 43(5): 1023-1033.
Aging blow flies using gene expression: a feasibility study (2007) A.M. Tarone, K.C. Jennings, and D.R. Foran Journal of Forensic Sciences 52(6):1350-4.
Generalized additive models and Lucilia sericata growth: assessing confidence intervals and error rates in forensic entomology (2008) A.M. Tarone and D.R. Foran Journal of Forensic Sciences 53(4): 942-8.
Gene expression during blow fly development: improving the precision of age estimates in forensic entomology (2010) A.M. Tarone and D.R. Foran Journal of Forensic Sciences 56: S112- S122.
Genome-wide association study of 107 phenotypes in a common set of Arabidopsis thaliana inbred lines. S. Atwell, Y. Huang, B. Vilhjálmsson, G. Willems, M. Horton, Y. Li, D. Meng, A. Platt, A.M. Tarone, et al. Nature. 465: 627-631.
Cecilia Tamborindeguy
Transcriptomic analysis of Bactericera cockerelli following “Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum infection (2012) Nachappa P, Levy J, Tamborindeguy C. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 287: 803-814.
Effect of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ on Fitness of Its Insect Vector, Bactericera cockerelli (Hemiptera: Triozidae), on Tomato (2012). Nachappa P, Shapiro AA, and Tamborindeguy C.
Diversity of endosymbionts in the potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Triozidae), vector of zebra chip disease of potato (2011) Nachappa P, Levy J, Pierson E, Tamborindeguy C. Curr Microbiol. 62(5):1510-20.
Translocation of “Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum”, the Zebra Chip Pathogen, in Potato and Tomato (2011). Levy J, Ravindran A, Gross D, Tamborindeguy C., Pierson EA. Phytopathology. 101: 1285-1291
Differences in bacterial diversity of host-associated populations of Phylloxera notabilis Pergande (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) in pecan and water hickory (2011) Medina RF, Nachappa P, Tamborindeguy C. J Evol Biol. 24(4):761-71
Effect of “Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum” on fitness of its insect vector, Bactericera cockerelli (Hemiptera: Triozidae) on tomato (2011) Nachappa P, Shapiro A. Tamborindeguy C. Phytopathology 102: 41-46
Jeff Tomberlin
Proteus mirabilis interkingdom swarming signals attract blow flies (2012) Ma, Q., W. Liu, A.T. Fields, M.L. Pimsler, A.M. Tarone, T.L. Crippen, J.K. Tomberlin, and T.K. Wood. Int. Soc. Micro. Ecol. J. 6: 1356-1366
Assessment of decomposition studies indicates need for standardized and repeatable research methods in forensic entomology (2012) Tomberlin, J.K., J.H. Byrd, J.R. Wallace, and M.E. Benbow. J. Forensic Res. 3: 147
Forensic entomology response to National Research Council report on forensic sciences: a roadmap for bridging basic and applied research (2011) Tomberlin, J.K., R. Mohr, M.E. Benbow, A.M. Tarone, and S. VanLaerhoven. Invited paper. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 56: 401-421.
Evolutionary ecology approaches in decomposition research enhances forensics: entomology as a case example (2011) Tomberlin, J.K., M.E. Benbow, A. Tarone, and R. Mohr. Invited paper. Trends Ecol. Evol. 26: 53-55.
Methylmercury enters an aquatic food web through acidophilic microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (2009) Boyd, E.S., J.K. Tomberlin, T.R. McDermott, and G.G. Geesey. Environ. Microbiol. 11: 950-959.
Sniffer insects: bee, hawkmoth, and wasp biosensors. (2008) Rains, G.C., J.K. Tomberlin, and D. Kulasiri. Invited paper. Trends Biotechnol. 26: 288-294.
Tawni Crippen
Transient Gut Retention and Persistence of Salmonella through Metamorphosis in the Lesser Mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) (2012) Crippen TL, Zheng L, Sheffield CL, Tomberlin JK, Beier RC, and Yu Z. Journal of Applied Microbiology J Appl Microbiol 112 (5):920-6.
Evaluation of Salmonella Movement through the Gut of the Lesser Mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) (2012) Zheng L, Crippen TL, Sheffield CL, Poole TL, Yu Z and Tomberlin JK. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis; 12(4):287-92.
Interkingdom Responses of Flies to Bacteria Mediated by Fly Physiology and Bacterial Quorum Sensing. (2012). Tomberlin JK, Crippen TL, Tarone AM, Singh B, Adams K, Rezenom YH, Benbow ME, Flores M, Longnecker M, Pechal JL, Russell DH, Beier RC and Wood TK (2012) Animal Behaviour 84:1449-1456
Proteus mirabilis Interkingdom Swarming Signals Attract Blow Flies. (2012) Ma Q, Fonseca A, Liu W, Fields AT, Pimsler ML, Spindola AF, Tarone AM, Crippen TL, Tomberlin JK, and TK. Wood. The ISME Journal 6(7):1356-66.
The acquisition and internalization of Salmonella by the lesser mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus, (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) (2009) Crippen TL, Sheffield CL, Mowery SV, Droleskey RE and JF Esquivel.
Vector-Borne Zoonotic Dis. 9(1):65-71.
Conjugative transfer of plasmid located antibiotic resistance genes within the gastrointestinal tract of the lesser mealworm larvae, Alphitobius diaperinus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Crippen TL, and TL Poole Foodborne Pathogens Dis., 6(7): 907-915.