A5069688077- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
- Plant and animal studies
- Malaria Research and Control
- Dengue and Mosquito Control Research
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Insect behavior and control techniques
Enzo Life Sciences (United States)
2025
Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy
2015-2019
Pennsylvania State University
2014-2019
Rice University
2014-2015
Evaluating the risk of emergence and transmission vector-borne diseases requires knowledge genetic environmental contributions to pathogen traits. Compared significant effort devoted understanding biology malaria from vertebrate hosts mosquito vectors, strategies that parasites have evolved maximize vectors been largely overlooked. While determinants infection success within host recently received attention, causes variability for other key traits malaria, namely duration parasite...
Malaria parasites alter mosquito feeding behaviour in a way that enhances parasite transmission. This is widely considered prime example of manipulation host to increase onward transmission, but transient immune challenge the absence can induce same behavioural phenotype. Here, we show alterations depend on timing and dose relative blood ingestion these changes are functionally linked insulin signalling gut. These results suggest altered phenotypes derive from signalling-dependent resource...
Quantifying costs and benefits of ostensibly mutualistic interactions is an important step toward understanding their evolutionary trajectories. In food‐for‐protection between ants extrafloral nectar (EFN)‐bearing plants, tending by aggressive may deter herbivores, but it also pollinators. The fitness pollinator deterrence are not straightforward for long‐lived iteroparous because reproductive vital rates often contribute weakly to relative growth survival (vital that be enhanced ant...
Mosquito-transmitted viruses such as dengue are a global and growing public health challenge. Without widely available vaccines, mosquito control is the primary tool for fighting spread of these viruses. New technologies needed to complement existing methods, given current challenges with scalability, acceptability, effectiveness. A field trial was conducted in collaboration Communities Organized Prevent Arboviruses project Ponce, Puerto Rico, measure entomological epidemiological effects...
Male mosquitoes containing the endosymbiont Wolbachia ( Wb+ ) can be used as a tool to suppress wild mosquito populations through technique termed incompatible insect (IIT). IIT programs reduce via matings between released males and females number of viable offspring produced in next generation. Successful rely on regular release outcompete for female mates. Past have relied local production support releases males. Here, we evaluated survival dispersal packed shipped Aedes aegypti...
Malaria-infected mosquitoes have been reported to be more likely take a blood meal when parasites are infectious than non-infectious. This change in feeding behavior increases the likelihood of malaria transmission, and has considered an example parasite manipulation host behavior. However, immune challenge with heat-killed Escherichia coli induces same behavior, suggesting that altered may driven by adaptive responses hosts cope response, rather parasite-specific factors. Here we tested...
Abstract Understanding the selective forces that shape dispersal strategies is a fundamental goal of evolutionary ecology and increasingly important in changing, human‐altered environments. Sex‐biased ( SBD ) common dioecious taxa, understanding variation direction magnitude across taxa has been persistent challenge. We took comparative, laboratory‐based approach using 16 groups (species or strains) bean beetles (genera Acanthoscelides , Callosobruchus Zabrotes including 10 strains one...