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  1. Alomar AA, Eastmond BH, Alto BW. 2020. The effects of exposure to pyriproxyfen and predation on Zika virus infection and transmission in Aedes aegypti. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis. 14 (11): e0008846. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008846
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  10. Erram D, Burkett-Cadena N. 2020. Laboratory Rearing of Culicoides stellifer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), a Suspected Vector of Orbiviruses in the United States. J. Med. Entomol. 57(1):25-32. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjz154.
  11. Giordano BV, Bartlett SK, Falcon DA, Lucas RP, Tressler MJ, Campbell LP. 2020. Mosquito Community Composition, Seasonal Distributions, and Trap Bias in Northeastern Florida. Journal of Medical Entomology, 57(5): 1501-1509. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa053
  12. Giordano BV, McGregor BL, Runkel IV AE, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2020. Distance diminishes the effect of deltamethrin exposure on the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 36:181-188. https://doi.org/10.2987/20-6927.1
  13. Gloria-Soria A, Mendiola SY, Morley VJ, Alto BW, Turner PE. 2020. Prior evolution in stochastic temperatures affects RNA virus evolvability at a thermal extreme. Ecol. Evol. 10(12): 5440-5450. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6287
  14. Harmon LE, Sayler KA, Burkett-Cadena ND, Wisely SM, Weeks EN. 2020. Management of Plant and Arthropod Pests by Deer Farmers in Florida. Journal of Integrated Pest Management. 11(1):12. https://doi.org/10.1093/jipm%2Fpmaa011
  15. Honório NA, Câmara DCP, Wiggins K, Eastmond B, Alto BW. 2020. High throughput method for detection of arbovirus infection of saliva in mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and albopictus. Viruses 12(11): 1343. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006521
  16. Kreppel KS, Viana M, Main BJ, Johnson PCD, Govella NJ, Lee Y, Maliti D, Meza FC, Lanzaro GC, Ferguson HM. Emergence of behavioural avoidance strategies of malaria vectors in areas of high LLIN coverage in Tanzania. Sci Rep. 2020. 10(1):14527. doi: 1038/s41598-020-71187-4. PMCID:PMC7471940.
  17. Lee Y, Souvannaseng L, Collier TC, Main BJ, Norris LC, Fofana A, Traoré SF, Cornel AJ, Luckhart S, Lanzaro GC. Evidence for divergent selection on immune genes between the African malaria vectors, Anopheles coluzzii and gambiae. Insects. Insects 2020, 11(12), 893; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11120893
  18. Lippi CA, Mao L, Stewart-Ibarra AM, Heydari N, Ayala EB, Burkett-Cadena ND, Blackburn JK, Ryan SJ. 2020. A network analysis framework to improve the delivery of mosquito abatement services in Machala, Ecuador. Int. J. Health Geogr. I19(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s12942-020-0196-6.
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  20. Lord CC, Lounibos LP, Pohedra JJ, Alto BW. 2020. Effects of mosquito biology on modeled Chikungunya virus invasion potential in Florida. Viruses 12(8): 830. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12080830
  21. McGregor BL, Blackburn JK, Wisely SM, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2020. Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Communities Differ Between a Game Preserve and Nearby Natural Areas in Northern Florida. J. Med. Entomol. 3:tjaa152. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjaa152.
  22. McGregor BL, Giordano BV, Runkel IV AE, Nigg HN, Nigg HL, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2020. Comparison of the effect of insecticides on bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus impatiens) and mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedes and Culex) by standard mosquito research methods. Journal of Economic Entomology2020, 1-9, doi 10.1093/jee/toaa282
  23. Oforka LC, Adeleke MA, Anikwe JC, Hardy NB, Mathias DK, Makanjuola WA, Fadamiro HY. (2020) Biting rates and Onchocerca infectivity status of black flies from the Simulium damnosum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Osun state, Nigeria. J Med Entomol 57(3): 901-907. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjz250. PubMed PMID: 31901168.
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  25. Pruett G, Hawes J, Varnado W, Deerman H, Goddard J, Burkett-Cadena N, Kearney C. 2020. The readily transformable Impatiens walleriana efficiently attracts nectar feeding with Aedes and Culex mosquitoes in simulated outdoor garden settings in Mississippi and Florida. Acta Trop. 210:105624. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105624. Epub 2020 Jul 7.
  26. Pruszynski CA, Stenn T, Acevedo C, Leal AL, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2020. Human Blood Feeding by Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Florida Keys and a Review of the Literature. J. Med. Entomol. 57(5):1640-1647. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjaa083.
  27. Quaglia AI, Blosser EM, McGregor BL, Runkel AE 4th, Sloyer KE, Erram D, Wisely SM, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2020. Tracking Community Timing: Pattern and Determinants of Seasonality in Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Northern Florida. Viruses 12(9):931. doi: 10.3390/v12090931.
  28. Reina Ortiz M, Grijalva MJ, Turell MJ, Waters WF, Montalvo AC, Mathias D, Sharma V, Renoy CF, Suits P, Thomas SJ, Leon R. (2020) Biosafety at home: how to translate biomedical laboratory safety precautions for everyday use in the context of COVID-19. Am J Trop Med Hyg 103(2): 838-840. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0677. Epub 2020 Jun 26. PubMed PMID: 32597388
  29. Reeves LE, Medina J, Miqueli E, Sloyer KE, Petrie W, Vasquez C, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2020. Establishment of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) scapularis (Diptera: Culicidae) in Mainland Florida, With Notes on the Ochlerotatus Group in the United States. J. Med. Entomol. 23:tjaa250. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjaa250.
  30. Reeves LE, Daniels JC. 2020. Conservation value of secondary forest habitats to endemic frugivorous butterflies at Mount Kanlaon, Negros Occidental, Philippines. Journal of Insect Conservation, 24: 913-926. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-020-00263-x
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  39. Sloyer KE, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2020. Development and field evaluation of a motion sensor activated suction trap to study vector-host interactions. Methods Ecol. Evol. 00:1–8. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13500
  40. St Laurent RA, Reeves LE, Kawahara AY. 2020. Cicinnus chambersi: a new species of sack-bearer moth (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Cicinninae) from southeastern Arizona, USA. ZooKeys, 931: 49-71. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.931.50203
  41. West RG, Mathias DK, Day JF, Acevedo C, Unnasch TR, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2020. Seasonal changes of host use by Culiseta melanura (Diptera: Culicidae) in Central Florida. J. Med. Entomol. 57(5):1627-1634. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjaa067.
  42. West RG, Mathias DR, Day JF, Boohene CK, Unnasch TR, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2020. Vectorial capacity of Culiseta melanura (Diptera: Culicidae) changes seasonally and is related to epizootic transmission of eastern equine encephalitis virus in Central Florida. Frontiers Ecol. and Evol. Aug 21;8:270. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00270