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  1. Aldridge, R. L., Alto, B. W., Connelly, C., R., Okech, B., Siegfried, B., Eastmond, B. H., Alomar, A. A., & Linthicum, K. J. 2024. Does prior exposure to larvicides influence dengue virus susceptibility in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)? Journal of Medical Entomology 61: 166-174. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296046
  2. Bauer, AM, Paull S, Guralnick RP, and Campbell LP. (2024). Species-level estimated abundances and zero counts of nighttime collected female mosquitoes 2014 - 2022 (Derived from NEON Mosquitoes sampled from CO2 traps (DP1.10043.001, RELEASE-2024)) ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/333bd981b709fd1c273683aa80778727
  3. Bauer AM, Guralnick RP, Whitehead SA, Barve N, Allen JM, Campbell LP. Land use predicts proportion of West Nile virus vector‐competent mosquitoes. Ecosphere. 2024 Feb;15(2):e4771. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4771
  4. Bellamy, S. K., Paige, A., & Alto, B. W. 2024. Trait- and density-mediated effects of predation on fecundity and fertility of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes. Journal of Medical Entomology 61: 132-141. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad146
  5. Benn JS, Orange JP, Gomez JP, Dinh ET, McGregor BL, Blosser EM, Burkett-Cadena ND, Wisely SM, Blackburn JK. 2024. Culicoides midge abundance across years: modeling inter-annual variation for an avian feeder and a candidate vector of hemorrhagic diseases in farmed wildlife. Viruses.16(5):766. https://doi.org/10.3390/v16050766
  6. Blosser EM, McGregor BL, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2024. A photographic key to the adult female biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Culicoides) of Florida, USA. Zootaxa. 5433(2):151-82. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5433.2.1. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5433.2.1
  7. Botero-Cañola S, Wilson K, Garcia E, Heisey M, Reeves LE, Burkett-Cadena ND, Romagosa C, Sieving KE, Wisely SM. 2024. Acoustic indices track local vertebrate biodiversity in a subtropical landscape. Ecological Indicators. 166: 112292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112292
  8. Buckner EA, Romero-Weaver AL, Schluep SM, Bellamy SK, Zimler RA, Kendziorski NL, Ramirez D, Whitehead SA. 2024. Evaluation of the In2care Mosquito Station against Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) under semifield conditions. Journal of Medical Entomology tjae124. doi: 1093/jme/tjae124
  9. Campbell LP, Bauer AM, Tavares Y, Guralnick RP, Reuman D. Broadscale spatial synchrony in a West Nile virus mosquito vector across multiple timescales. Scientific Reports. 2024 May 30;14(1):12479. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-62384-6
  10. Chanda MM, Campbell L, Walke H, Salzer JS, Hemadri D, Patil SS, Purse BV, Shivachandra SB. A thirty-year time series analyses identifies coherence between oscillations in Anthrax outbreaks and El Niño in Karnataka, India. Scientific Reports. 2024 Aug 27;14(1):19928. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67736-w
  11. Collier TC, Lee Y, Mathias DK, López Del Amo V. CRISPR-Cas9 and Cas12a Target Site Richness Reflects Genomic diversity in natural populations of Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti BMC Genomics. 2024. 25(1): 700. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10597-4 PMCID: PMC11253549.
  12. Estep AS, Sanscrainte ND, Stuck J, Unlu I, Prasauskas A, Mundis SJ, Cotter N, Romero-Weaver AL, Fedirko TJ, Kendziorski NL, Kosinski KJ, Ramirez D, Buckner EA. 2024. The L1014F knockdown resistance mutation is not a strong correlate of phenotypic resistance to pyrethroids in Florida populations of Culex quinquefasciatus. Insects 15(3):197. doi: 3390/insects15030197
  13. Foo A, Brettell LE, Nichols HL; 2022 UW-Madison Capstone in Microbiology Students; Medina Muñoz M, Lysne JA, Dhokiya V, Hoque AF, Brackney DE, Caragata EP, Hutchinson ML, Jacobs-Lorena M, Lampe DJ, Martin E, Valiente Moro C, Povelones M, Short SM, Steven B, Xu J, Paustian TD, Rondon MR, Hughes GL, Coon KL, Heinz E. MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies. PLoS Biol. 2024 Nov 15;22(11): e3002897. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002897
  14. Guralnick RP, Crimmins T, Grady E, Campbell LP. (2024). Phenological response to climatic change depends on spring warming velocity. Communications Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01807-8
  15. Hunter M, Reeves LE, Steele G, Rosales A, Heinig R, Lucas KJ. 2024. Aedeomyia squamipennis: A new genus and species record for Collier County, Florida, USA. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 40: 174-177. https://doi.org/10.2987/24-7188
  16. Kim D, DeBriere TJ, Eastmond BH, Alomar AA, Yaren O, McCarter J, Bradley KM, Benner SA, Alto BW, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2024. Rapid detection of West Nile and Dengue viruses from mosquito saliva by loop-mediated isothermal amplification and displaced probes. PLoS One. 19(2):e0298805. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298805.
  17. Kim D, Debriere TJ, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2024. A novel trap configuration for live capture of mosquitoes. Journal of the Florida Mosquito Control Association.71(1). https://doi.org/10.32473/jfmca.71.1.135294
  18. Kosinski KJ*, Romero-Weaver AL, Nguyen VT, Mathias DK, Buckner EA, Lee Y. A new multiplex SNP genotyping assay to simultaneously screen eight different kdr mutations of Aedes aegypti.  2024. 71(1): 41-49.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.32473/jfmca.71.1.135292
  19. Nordgulen M, Lewandowski K, Burkett-Cadena N, Mathias D, Byrd BD. 2024. La Crosse virus vector resting behaviors-field studies with Prokopak and resting shelter collections provide low yield. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 40 (3): 141–144. https://doi.org/10.2987/23-7161
  20. Nyathi, S., Rezende, I. M., Walter, K. S., Thongsripong, P., Mutuku, F., Ndenga, B., ... & LaBeaud, A. D. (2024). Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary characteristics of dengue virus 2 in East Africa. Nature Communications, 15(1), 7832. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51018-0
  21. McNamara T, Mosore M, Urlaub A, Burkett-Cadena ND, Reeves LE,Martin E. 2024. Culex erraticusutilizes gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrows for overwintering in north central Florida. Journal of Medical Entomology. 61(2) 454-464.  https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad174
  22. McNamara TD, Vargas N, McDuffie D, Bartz CE, Mosore MT, Kline DL, Buckner EA, Jiang Y, Martin EM. Evaluation of the In2Care Mosquito Station at low deployment density: a field study to manage Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) in North Central Florida. Journal of Medical Entomology 61(5): 1190-1202. doi: 1093/jme/tjae089
  23. Petersen, V., Santana, M., Karina-Costa, M., Nachbar, J.J., Martin-Martin, I., Adelman, Z.N., Burini, B.C. (2024) Aedes(Ochlerotatus) scapularis, Aedes japonicus japonicus, and Aedes (Fredwardsius) vittatus (Diptera: Culicidae): Three Neglected Mosquitoes with Potential Global Health Risks. Insects. Aug 8;15(8):600. doi: 10.3390/insects15080600. PMID: 39194805; PMCID: PMC11354592.
  24. Pruszynski CA, Buckner EA, Burkett-Cadena ND, Hugo LE, Leal AL, Caragata EP. Estimation of population age structure, daily survival rates, and potential to support dengue virus transmission for Florida Keys Aedes aegypti via transcriptional profiling. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 18(8): e0012350. doi: 1371/journal.pntd.0012350
  25. Reeves LE, López NR, Yee DA, Ziemke CH, Acevedo MA. 2024. Anolis gundlachi (yellow-chinned anole) and cristatellus(crested anole) mosquito-feeding. Herpetological Review. 55: 92-93. Natural History Notes
  26. Kim D, DeBriere TJ, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2024. Effect of physiological and environmental factors on mosquito wingbeat frequency. Journal of Vector Ecology. 49(2):R70-7. doi: 10.52707/1081-1710-49.2.R70.
  27. Reeves LE and Burkett-Cadena ND. 2024. Mosquito blood meal analysis. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.top107706 
  28. Reeves LE and Burkett-Cadena ND. 2024. Preservation of field-collected mosquito blood meals. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.prot108290 
  29. Reeves LE and Burkett-Cadena ND. 2024. Extracting DNA from preserved mosquito blood meals. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.prot108291 
  30. Reeves LE and Burkett-Cadena ND. 2024. 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.
  31. Resck, M. E. B., Câmara, D. C. P., dos Santos, F. B., dos Santos, J. P. C., Alto, B. W., & Honório, N. A. 2024. Spatial–temporal distribution of chikungunya virus in Brazil: a review on the circulating viral genotypes and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus as a potential vector. Frontiers in Public Health 12: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1496021
  32. Salama LA, Alomar AA, Pérez-Ramos DW and Caragata EP. 2024. Using WolbachiaBacteria to Control Mosquito-Borne Disease. EDIS. ENY2115/IN1434. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-in1434-2024.
  33. Seok S, Mogi M, Lee Y. Resolving confusion in the native distribution of Aedes (Hulecoeteomyia) koreicus (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol. 2024. 61(4):1077-1080. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjae078
  34. Shimabukuro P, Groom Q, Fouque F, Campbell L, Chareonviriyaphap T, Etang J, Manguin S, Sinka M, Schigel D, Ingenloff K. Bridging biodiversity and health: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility’s initiative on open data on vectors of human diseases. Gigabyte. 2024 Apr 11;2024:1-1. https://doi: 46471/gigabyte.117
  35. Sloyer KE, Reeves LE, Burkett-Cadena ND. 2024. Host associations of Culex panocossa (Diptera: Culicidae) in southern Florida and its implications for arbovirus transmission. Journal of Medical entomology. 61(3):726-32. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjae021.
  36. Tavares Y, Day J, Giordano BV, Eastmond B, Burkett-Cadena N, Guralnick RP, Martin E, Campbell LP. 2024. Regional variation in the landscape ecology of West Nile virus sentinel chicken seroconversion in Florida. PLOS ONE.19(10):e0305510. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305510.
  37. Telmaderrehei T, Romero-Weaver AL, Lee Y, Minteer C. First complete mitogenome sequence of a biological control agent insect, Pseudophilothrips ichini (Hood). Florida Entomol. 2024. 107(1):20240014. https://doi.org/10.1515/flaent-2024-0014
  38. Unlu I, Buckner EA, Medina J, Vasquez C, Cabrera A, Romero-Weaver AL, Ramirez D, Kendziorski NL, Kosinski KJ, Fedirko TJ, Ketelsen L, Dorsainvil C, Estep AS. 2024. Insecticide resistance of Miami-Dade Culex quinquefasciatus populations and initial field efficacy of a new resistance-breaking adulticide formulation. PLoS One 19(2): e0296046. doi: 1371/journal.pone.0296046.