Browsing Faculty Research by Department "Entomology"
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(2018-08-09)Background: In 2012, the United States experienced the largest outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV), with the majority of cases and deaths occurring in Texas. Texas reported 1,024 cases of WNV fever, 844 cases of WNV neuroinvasive ...
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Coccidian Parasites and Conservation Implications for the Endangered Whooping Crane (Grus americana) (PLOS, 2015-10-10)While the population of endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) has grown from 15 individuals in 1941 to an estimated 304 birds today, the population growth is not sufficient to support a down-listing of the species ...
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(2018-02)The goal of this presentation is to demonstrate a model where forensic science educators can utilize resources at university libraries to promote scientific information literacy and lifelong learning strategies for their ...
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(PLOS, 2014-03-27)Dispersal is a critical life history behavior for mosquitoes and is important for the spread of mosquito-borne disease. We implemented the first stable isotope mark-capture study to measure mosquito dispersal, focusing on ...
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(PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017)The dispersal patterns of mosquito vectors are important drivers of vector-borne infectious disease dynamics and understanding movement patterns is pivotal to devise successful intervention strategies. Here, we investigate ...
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(PLOS, 2015-04-16)Honey bees (Apis mellifera) exhibit age polyethism, whereby female workers assume increasingly complex colony tasks as they age. While changes in DNA methylation accompany age polyethism, other DNA modifications accompanying ...
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(2021-01-07)Tick-host bloodmeal associations are important factors when characterizing risks of associated pathogen transmission and applying appropriate management strategies. Despite their biological importance, comparatively little ...
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Identification and Expression Analysis of Aquaporins in the Potato Psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (PLOS, 2014-10-29)Aquaporin (AQPs) proteins transport water and uncharged low molecular-weight solutes across biological membranes. Six to 8 AQP genes have been identified in many insect species, but presently only three aquaporins have ...
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(BioMed Central, 2014-07-14)The recent advance of high-throughput sequencing makes it feasible to study entire transcriptomes through the application of de novo sequence assembly algorithms. While a popular strategy is to first construct an intermediate ...
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(Nature Communications, 2020-10-02)Acoustic communication is enabled by the evolution of specialised hearing and sound producing organs. In this study, we performed a large-scale macroevolutionary study to understand how both hearing and sound production ...
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Plant phloem sterol content: forms, putative functions, and implications for phloem-feeding insects (Frontiers Media, 2013-09-24)All eukaryotes contain sterols, which serve as structural components in cell membranes, and as precursors for important hormones. Plant vegetative tissues are known to contain mixtures of sterols, but very little is known ...
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(2022-03-02)Parasites are recognized for their ability to modify host physiology and behaviors in ways that increase parasite fitness. Protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium are a group of widespread vector-borne parasites of ...
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(PLOS, 2015-04-13)Beekeeping activities, especially queen trading, have shaped the distribution of honey bee (Apis mellifera) subspecies in Europe, and have resulted in extensive introductions of two eastern European C-lineage subspecies ...
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(PLOS ONE, 2014-07-03)"Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum” (Lso) is an emergent pathogen of carrots in Europe and solanaceous plants in North and Central America and New Zealand. This bacterium is closely related to other pathogenic Candidatus ...