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  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., Pérez-Ramos, D.W., Kim, D., Kendziorski, N.L., Kendziorski, N.L., Eastmond, B.H., Alto, B.W., Caragata, E.P. (2023). Native Wolbachia infection and larval competition stress shape fitness and West Nile virus infection in Culex quinquefasciatus Frontiers in Microbiology 14: 1138476. doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1138476.
  3. Bauer, A.M., Guralnick, R.P., Whitehead, S.A., Barve, N., Allen, J.M. and Campbell, L.P., 2023. Land use predicts proportion of West Nile virus vector-competent mosquitoes.  https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2939535/v1
  4. Beatty, N.L., Bhosale, C.R., Torhorst, C.W., Burkett-Cadena, N.D., Oi, F.M., Forsyth, C.J. and Wisely, S.M., 2023. Integrated pest management strategies targeting the Florida kissing bug, Triatoma sanguisuga: Preventing this vector of Chagas disease from invading your home. Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases, p.100144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpvbd.2023.100144
  5. Bellamy, S.K., Paige, A., & Alto, B.W. (2023). Trait- and density-mediated effects of predation on fecundity and fertility of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes. Journal of Medical Entomology, doi:10.1093/jme/tjad146.
  6. Brisco KK, Jacobsen CM, Seok S, Wang X, Lee Y*, Akbari OS, Cornel AJ. Field Evaluation of In2Care Mosquito Traps to Control Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Hawai'i Island. J Med Entomol. 2023. 60(2): 364-372. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjad005.
  7. Burkett-Cadena, N.D., Fish, D., Weaver, S. and Vittor, A.Y., 2023. Everglades virus: an underrecognized disease-causing subtype of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus endemic to Florida, USA. Journal of Medical Entomology, p.tjad070.
  8. Campbell, L.P., Sallam, M.F., Bauer, A.M., Tavares, Y. and Guralnick, R.P., 2023. Climate, landscape, and life history jointly predict multidecadal community mosquito phenology. Scientific Reports, 13(1), p.3866. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30751-4
  9. Campos, K.B., Alomar, A.A., Eastmond, B.H., Obara, M.T., S. Dias, L.D., Rahman, R.U., & Alto, B.W. (2023). Assessment of insecticide resistance of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) populations to insect growth regulator pyriproxyfen, in the northeast region of Brazil. Journal of Vector Ecology 48(1): 12-18. doi: 10.52707/1081-1710-48.1.12.
  10. Campos M, Patel N, Marshall C, Gripkey H, Ditter RE, Crepeau MW, Toilibou A, Amina Y, Cornel AJ, Lee Y, Lanzaro GC. Population genetics of Anopheles pretoriensis in Grande Comore Island. Insects. 2023, 14(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14010014
  11. Caragata EP. Susceptibility of Wolbachia mosquito control to temperature shifts. Nat Climate Change. 2023 Aug; 13(8): 767-768. doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01752-y.
  12. Ditter RE, Campos M, Crepeau MW, Pinto J, Toilibou A, Amina Y, Tantely LM, Girod R, Lee Y, Cornel AJ, Lanzaro GC. Anopheles gambiae on remote islands in the Indian Ocean: origins and prospects for malaria elimination by genetic modification of extant populations. Sci Rep. 2023. 13(1):20830. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-44501-z. PMCID: PMC10682471.
  13. Engdahl CS, Caragata EP, Tavadia M, Dimopoulos G. Chromobacterium Biopesticide Exposure Does Not Select for Resistance in Aedes mBio. 2023 Apr 25;14(2):e0048023. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00480-23. Epub 2023 Apr 5. PMID: 37017525; PMCID: PMC10127667.
  14. Fazekas S, Livoti DT, Reeves LE. 2023. First record of Aedeomyia squamipennisin Palm Beach County, Florida, USA. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association.  DOI: 10.2987/22-7097.
  15. Fikrig, K., Rose, N., Burkett-Cadena, N., Kamgang, B., Leisnham, P.T., Mangan, J., Ponlawat, A., Rothman, S.E., Stenn, T., McBride, C.S. and Harrington, L.C., 2023. Aedes albopictus host odor preference does not drive observed variation in feeding patterns across field populations. Scientific reports, 13(1), p.130.  DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26591-3
  16. Gaboardi L, Reeves LE, Murrietta Morey GA, Stanton DL, Carney RM. 2023. A new species of the fish louse genus DipteropeltisCalman, 1912 (Crustacea: Branchiura) from Peru. Zootaxa: 5315: 101-121.  https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5315.2.1
  17. Glover, Brian, Gwenyth O. Lee, Oscar Suing, Thien-An Ha, Panpim Thongsripong, Varsovia Cevallos, Patricio Ponce, Hannah Van Wyk, Amy C. Morrison, and Josefina Coloma. 2023. “Validity of Self-Reported Mosquito Bites to Assess Household Mosquito Abundance in Six Communities of Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador.” The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, tpmd220371–tpmd220371.  DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0371
  18. Guralnick, R.P., Campbell, L.P. and Belitz, M.W., 2023. Weather anomalies more important than climate means in driving insect phenology. Communications Biology, 6(1), p.490. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04873-4
  19. Heinig R, Reeves LE, Lucas KJ. 2023. Aedes tortilis, Culex declaratorand Culex tarsalis: New county records for mosquito species in Collier County, Florida. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 39: 149-156. https://doi.org/10.2987/23-7129
  20. Heinig R, Morreale R, Reeves LE, Lloyd A, Hoel D, Lucas KJ. 2023. Detection of Aedes scapularis in southwestern Florida. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 39: 281-283. https://doi.org/10.2987/23-7146
  21. Katak, RM, Cintra, AM, Burini, BC, Marinotti, O, Souza-Neto, JA, Rocha, EM. Biotechnological Potential of Microorganisms for Mosquito Population Control and Reduction in Vector Competence. Insects 14 (9), 718. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14090718
  22. Kim, D., Burkett-Cadena, N.D. and Reeves, L.E. 2023. Changes in mosquito species and blood meal composition associated with adulticide applications. Sci Rep13, 22087 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49494-3
  23. Martin-Martin I, Kojin BB, Aryan A, Williams AE, Molina-Cruz A, Valenzuela-Leon PC, Shrivastava G, Botello K, Minai M, Adelman ZN, Calvo E. Aedes aegypti D7 long salivary proteins modulate blood feeding and parasite infection. mBio. 2023 Nov 1:e0228923. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02289-23. PMID: 37909749. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02289-23
  24. Maestas Mays, S.E., Campbell,P., Wisely, S.M., Dingman, P.A., Reeves, L.E. and Kaufman, P.E., 2023. Comparison of ectoparasite communities of sylvatic and urban wild mesomammals and unowned community cats in north-central Florida. Journal of Medical Entomology, 60(3), pp.460-469. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad026
  25. Maestas Mays SE, Campbell LP, Milleson MP, Reeves LE, Kaufman PE, Wisely SM. 2023. Ticks and tick-borne pathogens from wild pigs in northern and central Florida. Insects 14: 612. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14070612
  26. Metz HC, Miller AK, You J, Akorli J, Avila FW, Buckner EA, Kane P, Otoo S, Ponlawat A, Triana-Chávez O, Williams KF, McBride CS. 2023. Evolution of a Mosquito's Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat. The American Naturalist 201(2):200-214. doi: 10.1086/722481. https://doi.org/10.1086/722481
  27. Montenegro, V.M. and Burkett-Cadena, N.D., 2023. An Inexpensive System to Investigate the Daily Rhythms of Insects. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 39(3), pp.203-207. https://doi.org/10.2987/23-7137
  28. Nguyen, V., Weaver-Romero, A. L., Wang, X., Tavares, Y., Bauer, A., McDowell, R. C., & Giordano, B. V. (2023). Survey of Invasive Mosquito Surveillance and Control Capacity in Southeastern USA Reveals Training and Resource Needs. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 39(2), 108-121. https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7107
  29. Nguyen VT, Collier TC, Seok S, Wang X, Mburu MM, Simubali L, Gebhardt ME, Norris DE, Lee Y. The first genome sequence of Anopheles squamous from Macha, Zambia. 12:330.  https://doi.org/10.12688%2Ff1000research.130734.1
  30. Piedra, L.A., Rodríguez, M.M., López, I., Ruiz, A., Martínez, L.C.,García, I, Rey, J., Bisset, J.A., Hamer, G.  2023. Insecticide Resistance Status of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) Populations from Cuba. J. Medical Entomol 60:487-493. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac189
  31. Potlapalli VR, Muller MS, Ngasala B, Ali IM, Na YB, Williams DR, Kharabora O, Chhetri S, Liu MS, Carey-Ewend K, Lin FC, Mathias D, Tarimo BB, Juliano JJ, Parr JB, Lin JT. 2023. Real-time PCR detection of mixed Plasmodium ovale curtisi and wallikeri infections in human and mosquito hosts. PLOS Negl Trop Dis 2023 Dec 8;17(12):e0011274. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011274.  https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.31.535020
  32. Reeves LE, Sloyer KE, Tyler-Julian K, Heinig R, Rosales A, Domingo C, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2023. Culex(Phenacomyia) lactator(Diptera: Culicidae) in southern Florida, USA: A new subgenus and species country record. Journal of Medical Entomology 60: 478-486. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad023
  33. Reeves LE and Burkett-Cadena ND. 2023. Mosquito blood meal analysis. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.top107706.  https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.top107706
  34. Reeves LE and Burkett-Cadena ND. 2023. Preservation of field-collected mosquito blood meals. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.prot108290 https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot108290
  35. Reeves LE and Burkett-Cadena ND. 2023. Extracting DNA from preserved mosquito blood meals. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.prot108291 https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot108291
  36. Reeves LE and Burkett-Cadena ND. 2023. Amplification and identification of vertebrate host cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) DNA barcoding templates from mosquito blood meals.. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.prot108292. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot108292
  37. Sallam, M.F., Whitehead, S., Barve, N., Bauer, A., Guralnick, R., Allen, J., Tavares, Y., Gibson, S., Linthicum, K.J., Giordano, B.V. and Campbell, L.P., 2023. Co-occurrence probabilities between mosquito vectors of West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis viruses using Markov Random Fields (MRFcov). Parasites & Vectors, 16(1), pp.1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05530-1
  38. Seok S, Jacobsen CM, Romero-Weaver AL, Wang X, Nguyen VT, Collier TC, Riles MT, Akbari OS, Lee Y. Complete mitogenome sequence of Aedes (Hulecoeteomyia) japonicus japonicus from Hawai’i Island. Mitochondrial DNA Part B Resourc. 2023. 8(1): 64-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2022.2161328
  39. Seok S, Kim Z, Nguyen VT, Lee Y. The potential invasion into North America and Europe by non-native mosquito, Aedes koreicus (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol. 2023. 60(6):1305-1313. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjad116. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad116
  40. Seok S, Raz CD, Miller JH, Malcolm AN, Eason MD, Romero-Weaver AL, Giordano BV, Jacobsen CM, Wang X, Akbari OS, Raban R, Mathias DK, Caragata EP, Vorsino AE, Chiu JC, Lee Y. Arboviral disease outbreaks, Aedes mosquitoes, and vector control efforts in the Pacific. Front Trop Dis. 2023 Jan 25; 4:1035273. doi: 10.3389/fitd.2023.1035273. https://doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2023.1035273
  41. Sloyer, K.E., Acevedo, C., Wisely, S.M. and Burkett-Cadena, N.D., 2023. Host associations of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Culicoides) at deer farms in Florida, USA. Journal of Medical Entomology, 60(3), pp.518-526. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad036
  42. Soghigian J, Sither C, Justi SA, Morinaga G, Cassel BK, Vitek CJ, Livdahl T, Xia S, Gloria-Soria A, Powell JR, Zavortink T, Hardy CM, Burkett-Cadena ND, Reeves LE, Wilkerson RC, Dunn RR, Yeates DK, Sallum MA, Byrd BD, Trautwein MD, Linton Y-M, Reiskind MH, Wiegmann BM. 2023. Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes. Nature Communications 14: 6252. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41764-y
  43. Soudi S, Crepeau M, Collier TC, Lee Y, Cornel AJ, Lanzaro GC. Genomic signatures of local adaptation in recent invasive Aedes aegypti populations in California. BMC Genomics. 2023. 24(1):311. doi: 10.1186/s12864-023-09402-5. PMCID: PMC10257851.
  44. Thongsripong, Panpim, Brendan H. Carter, Matthew J. Ward, Samuel B. Jameson, Sarah R. Michaels, Joshua O. Yukich, and Dawn M. Wesson. 2023. “Aedes Aegypti and Aedes Albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) Oviposition Activity and the Associated Socio-Environmental Factors in the New Orleans Area.” Journal of Medical Entomology 60 (2): 392–400. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad007.
  45. Thongsripong, Panpim, Sean V. Edgerton, Sandra Bos, Saira Saborío, Guillermina Kuan, Angel Balmaseda, Eva Harris, and Shannon N. Bennett. 2023. “Phylodynamics of Dengue Virus 2 in Nicaragua Leading up to the 2019 Epidemic Reveals a Role for Lineage Turnover.” BMC Ecology and Evolution 23 (1): 58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02156-4.
  46. Tian, Y., Lord, C.C., Taylor, C.E. and Kaufman, P.E. 2023. Using environmental factors to predict Rhipicephalus sanguineusl. (Acari: Ixodidae) mortality. Pest Manag Sci, 79: 3043-3049. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.7479
  47. Tian, Y., Lord, C.C., Taylor, C.E. and Kaufman, P.E. 2023. Evidence of permethrin resistance and fipronil tolerance in Rhipicephalus sanguineusl. (Acari: Ixodidae) populations from Florida and California.  J. Med. Entomol. 60: 412–416.  https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac185
  48. Yaren, O., McCarter, J., Morris, A.R., Bradley, K.M., Karalkar, N.B., McLendon, D.C., Kim, D., Eastmond, B.H., Burkett-Cadena, N.D., Alto, B.W., & Benner, S.A. (2023). Multiplex surveillance kit using sweetened solid support to detect arboviruses isothermally in mosquito saliva from the field. Analytical Chemistry 95(28): 10736-10743.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c01735
  49. Zimler, R.A., & Alto, B.W. (2023). Vertical transmission of Zika virus by Florida Aedes aegypti and albopictus. Insects 14(3): 289. doi: 10.3390/insects14030289. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14030289
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