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    • Kim D, Stenn TMS, Dittman SM, Sanchez YL, Addae CA, Torres LJR, et al. (2025) Anthropophagic Florida mosquito species are poor vectors of prototype and emerging strains of oropouche virus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 19(12): e0013755. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013755
    • Alomar, A.A., Alto, B.W. Evaluating the transstadial effects of Bacillus velezensis and pyriproxyfen, alone and in combination, on fitness-related traits of Culex quinquefasciatus. Parasites Vectors 18, 381 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-025-07039-9
    • Smartt CT, Farless S, Kendziorski NL, Chen T-Y, Tian Y, Alto BW, et al. (2025) Changes in the life history traits in Aedes aegypti selected for resistance to permethrin and thymol, a spatial repellent. PLoS One 20(8): e0329776. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329776
    • Swab, C.L., Alto, B.W., Kluiters, G. et al. Age structure of cohorts of mosquitoes from the field using shortwave infrared spectroscopy before and after ULV adulticide treatment. Parasites Vectors 18, 250 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-025-06873-1
    • Barry Wilmer Alto, Alina Denis Kizgin, Ahsen Meliha Toroslu, Batuhan Askim Arslanhan, Samba Deguene Diop, Gökmen Zafer Pekmezci, Yesenia Sanchez, Osman İbiş, Abdullah Inci, Alparslan Yildirim, Larval competition between invasive Aedes albopictus and resident Culex pipiens mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from Türkiye in the presence of an insect growth regulator, Journal of Medical Entomology, Volume 62, Issue 5, September 2025, Pages 1146–1161, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaf079
    • Jiangtao Liang, Noah H Rose, Ilya I Brusentsov, Varvara Lukyanchikova, Dmitriy A Karagodin, Yifan Feng, Andrey A Yurchenko, Atashi Sharma, Massamba Sylla, Joel Lutomiah, Athanase Badolo, Ogechukwu Aribodor, Cassandra Gonzalez Acosta, Barry Wilmer Alto, Nazni Wasi Ahmad, Elina M Baricheva, Zhijian Tu, Diego Ayala, Andrea Gloria-Soria, William C Black, Jeffrey R Powell, Igor V Sharakhov, Carolyn S McBride, Maria V Sharakhova, Chromosomal Inversions and Their Potential Impact on the Evolution of Arboviral Vector Aedes aegypti, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 7, July 2025, evaf118, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf118
    • Resck MEB, Honório NA, Alto BW. Does Nutrient Availability and Larval Competition Alter Chikungunya Virus Infection in the Mosquito Aedes albopictus? Viruses. 2025; 17(5):613. https://doi.org/10.3390/v17050613
    • Erram D, McGregor B, Acevedo C, Alto BW, Burkett-Cadena N. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus oral infection affects midge reproduction and is vertically transmitted to offspring in Culicoides sonorensis. Sci Rep. 2025 May 8;15(1):16078. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-00849-y. PMID: 40341161; PMCID: PMC12062246.
    • Yee DA, Nelsen JA, Fijman NS, Reyes-Torres LJ, Everly J, Eastmond B, Alto BW. Larval competition between the invasive Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) and the Caribbean endemic Aedes mediovittatus (Diptera: Culicidae) from Puerto Rico, USA. J Med Entomol. 2025 Mar 17;62(2):347-357. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjae154. PMID: 39708376.
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