Skip to main content
Skip to main content
Give      University of Florida

Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory

Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory

  1. Aldridge, R.L., Alto, B.W., Connelly, C.R., Okech, B., Siegfried, B., Linthicum, K.J. 2022. Lethal and sublethal concentrations of formulated larvicides against susceptible Aedes aegypti. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 38(4): 250-260. https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7084
  2. Alomar, A.A., Alto, B.W. 2022. Evaluation of pyriproxyfen effects on Aedes aegypti and predatory mosquito Toxorhynchites rutilus. Journal of Medical Entomology 59: 585-590. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab193
  3. Alomar, A.A., Alto, B.W. 2022. Temperature-mediated effects on Mayaro virus vector competency of Florida Aedes aegypti mosquito vectors. Viruses 14: 880  https://doi.org/10.3390/v14050880
  4. Alomar, A.A., Alto, B.W., Walker, E.D. 2022. Spinosyns delivered in sugar meals to Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae): acute toxicity, and subacute effects on survival, fecundity, and fertility. Journal of Medical Entomology 59: 623-630. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab220
  5. Alomar, A.A., Eastmond, B.H., Rapti, Z., Walker, E.D., Alto, B.W. 2022. Ingestion of spinosad-containing toxic sugar bait alters Aedes albopictus vector competence and vectorial capacity for dengue virus. Frontiers in Microbiology 13: 933482. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.933482
  6. Beatty, N.L., Forsyth, C.J., Burkett-Cadena, N. and Wisely, S.M., 2022. Our Current Understanding of Chagas Disease and Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in the State of Florida—an Update on Research in this Region of the USA. Current Tropical Medicine Reports, pp.1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-022-00261-w
  7. Black, T.V., Quaglia, A.I., Wisely, S. and Burkett-Cadena, N., 2022. Field Comparison of Removed Substrate Sampling and Emergence Traps for Estimating Culicoides Orbivirus Vectors in Northern Florida. Journal of Medical Entomology, 59(5), pp.1660-1668. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac089
  8. Brockmeyer, R.E., M. Donnelly, J.R. Rey, Carlson, D.B.2022. Manipulating, managing and rehabilitating mangrove-dominated wetlands along Florida’s east coast (USA): Balancing mosquito control and ecological values Wetlands Ecol.Manag. 30:987–1005. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-021-09843-3(0123456789.
  9. Burkett-Cadena, N.D., 2022. First records of species of the Spissipes Section (Culex (Melanoconion))(Diptera, Culicidae) in Guainía Department, Colombia. Check List, 18(3), pp.721-724. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.3.721
  10. Burkett-Cadena, N.D., Blosser, E.M. and Reeves, L.E., 2022. Key to the Adult Females of Species of Culex Subgenus Melanoconion in Florida, USA. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 38(3), pp.130-140. https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7081
  11. Burkett-Cadena, N.D., Day, J.F. and Unnasch, T.R., 2022. Ecology of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in the Southeastern United States: Incriminating Vector and Host Species Responsible for Virus Amplification, Persistence, and Dispersal. Journal of Medical Entomology, 59(1), pp.41-48. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab076
  12. Campbell, L.P., Guralnick, R.P., Giordano, B.V., Sallam, M.F., Bauer, A.M., Tavares, Y., Allen, J.M., Efstathion, C., Bartlett, S., Wishard, R. Xue, R.D., Allen, B., Tressler, M., Qualls, M. and Burkett-Cadena, N. D. 2022. Spatiotemporal Modeling of Zoonotic Arbovirus Transmission in Northeastern Florida Using Sentinel Chicken Surveillance and Earth Observation Data. Remote Sensing, 14(14), p.3388. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143388
  13. Campos, K.B., Alomar, A.A., Eastmond, B.H., Obara, M.T., Alto, B.W. 2022. Brazilian populations of Aedes aegypti resistant to pyriproxyfen exhibit lower susceptibility to infection with Zika virus. Viruses 14(10): 2198. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14102198
  14. Gloria-Soria, A., Shragai, T., Ciota, A.T., Duval, T.B., Alto, B.W., Martins, A.J., et. al. 2022. Population genetics of an invasive mosquito vector, Aedes albopictus in Northeastern USA. NeoBiota 78: 99-127. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.78.84986
  15. Campos M, Patel N, Marshall C, Gripkey H, Ditter RE, Crepeau MW, Toilibou A, Amina Y, Cornel AJ, Lee Y, Lanzaro GC. 2022. Population genetics of Anopheles pretoriensis in Grande Comore Island. Insects.14(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14010014.
  16. Caragata EP, Otero LM, Tikhe CV, Barrera R, Dimopoulos G. 2022.  Microbial Diversity of Adult Aedes aegypti and Water Collected from Different Mosquito Aquatic Habitats in Puerto Rico.  Microbial Ecology 83:183-201. DOI: 10.1007/s00248-021-01743-6
  17. Caragata EP, Short SM. 2022. Vector microbiota and immunity: modulating arthropod susceptibility to vertebrate pathogens. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2022 Apr;50:100875. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2022.100875. Epub 2022 Jan 19. PMID: 35065286.
  18. Chen, T. Y., Smartt, C. T., and Shin, D. 2021.  Permethrin resistance in Aedes aegypti affects aspects of vectorial capacity. Insects, 12(1), 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12010071
  19. Coatsworth H, Bozic J, Carrillo J, Buckner EA, Rivers AR, Dinglasan RR, Mathias DK. 2022.  Intrinsic variation in the vertically transmitted core virome of the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Molecular Ecology 31: 2545-2561. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16412
  20. Dong, Y, Caragata, EP. 2022. Novel Methodological Perspectives in the Study of Mosquito Biology. J. Vis. Exp. (186), e6460. https://doi.org/10.3791/64602
  21. Hancock, RG, Boyd, T. MacFadden, S, Sowders, A, Foster, W, Lounibos, LP. 2022.  Mosquitoes Eating Mosquitoes: How Toxorhynchites amboinensis, Psorophora ciliata, and Sabethes cyaneus (Diptera: Culicidae) Capture Prey. Annals of the Ent. Soc, Amer. 115:461–471, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saac017.
  22. Hughes MJ, de Torrez ECB, Buckner EA, Ober HK. 2022. Consumption of endemic arbovirus mosquito vectors by bats in the southeastern United States. Journal of Vector Ecology 47(2): 153-165. doi: 10.52707/1081-1710-47.2.153.
  23. Khalighifar , A., D. Jiménez-García, L. P. Campbell, K. M. Ahadji-Dabla, F. Aboagye-Antwi, L. A. Ibarra-Juárez, and A. T. Peterson. 2022. Application of Deep Learning to Community-Science-Based Mosquito Monitoring and Detection of Novel Species. Journal of Medical Entomology 59:355–362. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab161
  24. Kim D, Burkett-Cadena ND, Reeves LE. 2022. Pollinator biological traits and ecological interactions mediate the impacts of mosquito-targeting malathion application. Scientific Reports 12: 17039. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20823-2
  25. Kojin BB, Jakes E, Biedler JK, Tu Z, Adelman ZN. 2022. Partial masculinization of Aedes aegypti females by conditional expression of Nix. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2022 Jul 1;16(7):e0010598. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010598. PMID: 35776760; PMCID: PMC9307153.
  26. Kojin BB, Compton A, Adelman ZN, Tu Z. 2022. Selective targeting of biting females to control mosquito-borne infectious diseases. Trends Parasitol. 2022 Sep;38(9):791-804. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2022.05.012. Epub 2022 Jun 13. PMID: 35952630; PMCID: PMC9372635.
  27. Kosinski K, Lee Y, Romero-Weaver A, Chen TY, Collier T, Wang X, Mathias D, Buckner E. 2022. Two novel single nucleotide polymorphisms in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene identified in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from Florida. Journal of the Florida Mosquito Control Association 69(1): 21-28. https://doi.org/10.32473/jfmca.v69i1.130622
  28. Kovach BC, Reeves LE, Domingo C, L’Heureux SN, Burger GV, Schermerhorn SD, Riles MT. 2022. Aedes pertinax, Anopheles perplexens, Culex declarator, and Culex interrogator: An update of mosquito species records for Charlotte County, Florida. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 38: 241-249. https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7087
  29. Martin-Martin I, Valenzuela Leon PC, Amo L, Shrivastava G, Iniguez E, Aryan A, Brooks S, Kojin BB, Williams AE, Bolland S, Ackerman H, Adelman ZN, Calvo E. 2022. Aedes aegypti sialokinin facilitates mosquito blood feeding and modulates host immunity and vascular biology. Cell Rep. 2022 Apr 12;39(2):110648. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110648. PMID: 35417706; PMCID: PMC9082008.
  30. Niang A, Maïga H, Sawadogo SP, Konaté L, Faye O, Lee Y, Dabiré RK, Diabaté A, Tripet F. 2022. Perfect association between spatial swarm segregation and the X-chromosome speciation island in hybridizing Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae populations. Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 24;12(1):10800. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-14865-9. PMCID: PMC9232630.
  31. Pereira AE, Huynh MP, Paddock KJ, Ramirez JL, Caragata EP, Dimopoulos G, Krishnan HB, Schneider SK, Shelby KS, Hibbard BE. 2022. Chromobacterium Csp_P biopesticide is toxic to larvae of three Diabrotica species including strains resistant to Bacillus thuringiensis. Sci Rep. 2022 Oct 25;12(1):17858. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-22229-6. PMID: 36284199; PMCID: PMC9596699.
  32. Pérez-Ramos DW, Ramos MM, Payne KC, Giordano BV, Caragata EP. 2022. Collection Time, Location, and Mosquito Species Have Distinct Impacts on the Mosquito Microbiota. Front. Trop. Dis 3:896289. doi: 10.3389/fitd.2022.896289.
  33. Piedra, L.A., Martinez, L, Ruiz, A, Cangas, J, Guzmán, MG, Rey, JR, Bisset, JA.  2022.  First record of natural transovarial transmission of dengue virus in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) from Cuba.  Am. J. Trop. Medicine & Hygiene: 106:582-584. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0710
  34. Piedra, LA., Rodríguez M, Martinez, L, Ruiz, A, García, I,  Rey, JR,  Bisset JA.  2022.  Characterization of insecticide resistance in Aedes aegypti from the Zoological Garden of Havana.  J. Amer. Mosquito Control Assoc. 38:208-215. https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7068
  35. Rashid I, Campos M, Collier T, Crepeau M, Weakley A, Gripkey H, Lee Y, Schmidt H, Lanzaro GC. 2022. Spontaneous mutation rate estimates for the principal malaria vectors Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles stephensi. Scientific Reports.  2022. 22:226. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03943-z
  36. Reeves LE, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2022. Lizards are important hosts for zoonotic Flavivirus vectors, subgenus Culex, in the southern USA. Frontiers in Tropical Diseases 11: 842543. https://doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2022.842523
  37. Riles, M. T., D. Martin, C. Mulla, E. Summers, L. Duke, J. Clauson, L. P. Campbell, and B. V. Giordano. 2022. West Nile Virus Surveillance in Sentinel Chickens and Mosquitoes in Panama City Beach, Florida, from 2014 To 2020. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 38:148–158. https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7074
  38. Sloyer, K. E., N. D. Burkett-Cadena, and L. P. Campbell. 2022. Predicting the potential distribution of Culex (Melanoconion) cedecei in Florida and the Caribbean using ecological niche models. Journal of Vector Ecology 47:88–98. https://doi.org/10.52707/1081-1710-47.1.88
  39. Sloyer KE, Santos M, Riviera E, Reeves LE, Carrera JP, Valderrama A, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2022. Evaluating sampling strategies for enzootic Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus vectors in Florida and Panama. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16: e0010329. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010329
  40. Sloyer KE, Barve N, Kim D, Stenn T, Campbell LP, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2022. Predicting potential transmission risk of Everglades virus in Florida using mosquito blood meal identifications. Frontiers in Epidemiology. 2022:62. https://doi.org/10.3389/fepid.2022.1046679
  41. Smartt CT, Kendziorski N, Chen T, Farless S. 2022. Assessment of mosquito longevity, fecundity, and dengue virus titer following exposure to plasma from a host with Type 2 diabetes mellitus – a pilot study. bioRxiv; 2022. DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.28.501853.
  42. Tarimo BB, Vincent O. Nyasembe VO, Ngasala B, Basham C, Rutagi IJ, Muller M, Chhetri SB, Rubinstein R, Juliano JJ, Loya M, Dinglasan RR, Lin JT, Mathias DK. 2022. Seasonality and transmissibility of Plasmodium ovale in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania. Parasites and Vectors 15: 56. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05181-2
  43. Tian, Y., Kaufman, P. E., Taylor, C. E., Beati, L., & Lord, C. C. 2022. Variable effects of temperature and relative humidity on Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. (Acari: Ixodidae) development. Environmental Entomology, 51(4), 848-858. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvac027.
  44. Tian, Y., Taylor, C. E., Lord, C. C., & Kaufman, P. E. 2022. Evidence of permethrin resistance and fipronil tolerance in Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. (Acari: Ixodidae) populations from Florida and California. Journal of Medical Entomology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac185.
  45. Tyler-Julian K, Reeves LE, Lloyd A, Hoel D. 2022. Aedes pertinax and Culex interrogator: Two mosquito species new to Lee County, Florida. Journal of the Florida Mosquito Control Association 69: 16-20. https://doi.org/10.32473/jfmca.v69i1.130621
  46. Zhang X, Mathias DK. 2022. The effects of light wavelength and trapping habitat on surveillance of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Alabama. Journal of Medical Entomology 59(6): 2053-2065. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac156
  47. Zimmerman, R.H., Galardo, A.K.R., Lounibos, L.P. et al. 2022. Vectorial capacities for malaria in eastern Amazonian Brazil depend on village, vector species, season, and parasite species. Malar J 21, 237 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04255-x