2008 Publications
Azarkh, E., Robinson, E. Hirunkanokpun, S., Afanasiev, B., Kittayapong, P., Carlson, J. and Corsini, J. 2008. Mosquito densonucleosis virus non-structural protein NS2 is necessary for a productive infection. Virology 374:128-137.
Beaty, B., and Eisen, L. The Casa segura – a new approach for dengue vector control. Public Health, 10:26-31, 2008.
Black, W.C., IV, N. Gorrochotegui-Escalante, N.P. Randle, and M.J. Donnelly. 2008. The yin and yang of linkage disequilibrium: Mapping of genes and nucleotides conferring insecticide resistance in insect disease vectors. Transgenesis and the Management of Vector-Borne Disease 627: 71-83.
Blair, Carol D. 2008. Vector Biology and West Nile Virus, Ch. 3 pp.45-67, In West Nile Encephalitis Virus Infection. Viral Pathogenesis and the Host Immune Response, Michael S. Diamond, ed., Springer, NY.
Billingsley PF, Foy BD, Rason JL. Mosquitocidal vaccines: a neglected addition to malaria and dengue control strategies. Trends in Parasitol. 2008 Sep;24(9)396-400.
Brackney, D.E., Foy, B.D. and Olson, K.E. (2008). The effects of midgut serine proteases on dengue type 2 infectivity of Aedes aegypti. Amer. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 79: 267-274
Bryant B., Blair, C.D., Olson, K.E., and Clem, R.J. (2008). Annotation and expression profiling of apoptosis-related genes in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2008 Mar;38(3):331-45. Epub 2007 Dec 7.
Calisher CH. Unassigned bunyaviruses. Encyclopedia of Virology, 3rd Edition, Editors-in-Chief, B.Mahy, M.Van Regenmortel (eds), Elsevier, pages 399-401, 2008.
Calisher CH., Mills JN, Root JJ, Doty JB, Beaty, BJ. Environmental factors influence transmission of Sin Nombre hantavirus between rodents (and to humans?) Vector-borne Diseases: Understanding the Environmental, Human Health, and Ecological Connections, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., pages 200-217, 2008.
Calisher CH. Orthobunyaviruses. Encyclopedia of Virology, 3rd Edition, Editors-in-Chief, B.Mahy, M.Van Regenmortel (eds), Elsevier, pages 479-483, 2008.
Campbell, Corey L., Kimberly M. Keene, Douglas E. Brackney, Ken E. Olson, Carol D. Blair, Jeffrey Wilusz and Brian D. Foy. (2008). Aedes aegypti uses RNA interference in defense against Sindbis virus infection. BMC Microbiology, 8: 47.
Eisen, L. 2008. Climate change and tick-borne diseases: A research field in need of long-term empirical field studies. International Journal of Medical Microbiology: 298 (Suppl. 1): 12–18.
Eisen, L., and B.J. Beaty. 2008. Innovative decision support and vector control approaches to control dengue, pp. 150-161. In: Institute of Medicine report on Vector-Borne Diseases - Understanding the Environmental, Human Health, & Ecological Connections. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
Eisen, L., L.A. Ibarra-Juarez, R.J. Eisen, and J. Piesman. 2008. Indicators for elevated risk of human exposure to host-seeking adults of the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) in Colorado. Journal of Vector Ecology 33: 117-128.
Eisen, L., B.G. Bolling, C.D. Blair, B.J. Beaty, and C.G. Moore. 2008. Mosquito species
richness, composition and abundance along habitat-climate-elevation gradients in the northern Colorado Front Range. Journal of Medical Entomology 45: 800-811.
Eisen, R.J., and L. Eisen. 2008. Spatial modeling of human risk of exposure to vector-borne pathogens based on epidemiological versus arthropod vector data. Journal of Medical Entomology 45: 181-192.
Eisen, R.J., P.S. Mead, A.M. Meyer, L.E. Pfaff, K.K. Bradley, and L. Eisen. 2008.
Ecoepidemiology of tularemia in the south-central United States. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 78: 586-594.
Foy, B.D. and Olson, K.E. (2008). Alphavirus transducing systems. Adv Exp Med Biol. 627:19-34.
Garcia-Rejon, J., M.A. Lorono-Pino, J.A. Farfan-Ale, L. Flores-Flores, E.P. Rosedo-Paredes, N. Rivero-Cardenas, R. Najera-Vazquez, S. Gomez-Carro, V. Lira-Zumbardo, P. Gonzalez-Martinez, S. Lozano-Fuentes, D. Elizondo-Quiroga, B.J. Beaty, and L. Eisen. 2008. Dengue virus-infected Aedes aegypti in the home environment. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 79: 940-950.
Hirunkanokpun, S., Carlson, J.O. and Kittayapong, P. 2008. Evaluation of Mosquito Densoviruses for Controlling Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae): Variation in Efficiency due to Virus Strain and Geographic Origin of Mosquitoes. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 78:784-790
Lozano-Fuentes, S., D. Elizondo-Quiroga, J.A. Farfan-Ale, M.A. Loroño-Pino, J. Garcia-Rejon, S. Gomez-Carro, V. Lira-Zumbardo, R. Najera-Vazquez, I. Fernandez-Salas, J. Calderon-Martinez, M. Dominguez-Galera, P. Mis-Avila, M. Coleman, N. Morris, C.G. Moore, B.J. Beaty, and L. Eisen. 2008. Use of Google Earth to strengthen public health capacity and facilitate management of vector-borne diseases in resource-poor environments. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 86: 718–725.
Magalhaes T, Brackney DE, Beier JC, Foy BD. Silencing an Anopheles gambiae catalase and sulfhydryl oxidase increases mosquito mortality after a bloodmeal. Arch Insect Biochem Physiol. 2008, July;68(3):134-43. PMC2673501
Mori, A., J. Romero-Severson, W.C. Black IV, and D.W. Severson. 2008. Quantitative trait loci determining autogeny and body size in the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). Heredity 101: 75-82.
Olson, Ken E., Kim M. Keene, and Carol D. Blair. 2008. RNA Interference: an Innate Immune Response to Viruses, In Encyclopedia of Virology, Third Edition, Academic Press.
Pierro, D.J., Powers, E. and Olson K.E. (2008). Sindbis virus genetic determinants of mosquito infection are associated with a highly conserved alphavirus and flavivirus envelope sequence. J Virol. 2008 Mar;82(6):2966-74. Epub 2007 Dec 26.
Piesman, J., and L. Eisen. 2008. Prevention of tick-borne diseases. Annual Review of Entomology 53: 323-343.
Rajatileka, S., W.C. Black IV, K. Saavedra-Rodriguez, Y. Trongtokit, C. Apiwathnasorn, P. J. McCall, and H. Ranson. 2008. Development and application of a simple colorimetric assay reveals widespread distribution of sodium channel mutations in Thai populations of Aedes aegypti. Acta Tropica 108: 54-57.
Reese, Sara M. Bradley J. Blitvich, Carol D. Blair, Dave Geske, Barry J. Beaty and William C. Black, IV. 2008. Potential for La Crosse virus segment reassortment in nature, Virology Journal, 5,164
Saavedra-Rodriguez, K., C. Strode, A. Flores-Suarez, I. Fernandez-Salas, H. Ranson, J. Hemingway, and W.C. Black IV. 2008. Quantitative trait loci mapping of genome regions controlling permethrin resistance in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Genetics 180: 1137-1152.
Strode, C., C.S. Wondji, J.P. David, N.J. Hawkes, N. Lumjuan, D.R. Nelson, D.R. Drane, S. Karunaratne, J. Hemingway, W.C. Black IV, and H. Ranson. 2008. Genomic analysis of detoxification genes in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 38: 113-123.
Strong, A.C., B.C. Kondratieff, M.S. Doyle, and W.C. Black IV. 2008. Resistance to permethrin in Culex tarsalis in northeastern Colorado. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 24: 281-288.
Wang, Hua, Carol D. Blair, Ken E. Olson and Rollie J. Clem. 2008. Effects of inducing or inhibiting apoptosis on Sindbis virus replication in mosquito cells. J. Gen. Virol. 89, 2651-2661.
Wheat WH, Pauken KE, Morris RV, Titus RG. 2008. Lutzomyia longipalpis salivary peptide maxadilan alters murine dendritic cell expression of CD80/86, CCR7, and cytokine secretion and reprograms dendritic cell-mediated cytokine release from cultures containing allogeneic T cells. J. Immunol. 180:8286.
Winters, A.M., B.G. Bolling, B.J. Beaty, C.D. Blair, R.J. Eisen, A.M. Meyer, W.J. Pape, C.G. Moore, and L. Eisen. 2008. Combining mosquito vector and human disease data for improved assessment of spatial West Nile virus disease risk. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 78: 654-665.
Winters, A.M., R.J. Eisen, S. Lozano-Fuentes, C.G. Moore, W.J. Pape, and L. Eisen. 2008. Predictive spatial models for risk of West Nile virus exposure in eastern and western Colorado. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 79: 581-590.