Publications

apparent range expansion of culicoides (hoffmania) insignis (diptera: ceratopogonidae) in the southeastern united states.	haematophagous biting midges of the genus culicoides are pests of humans, livestock, and wildlife, and some also serve as vectors of bluetongue virus (btv) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (ehdv) worldwide. in north america, there are only two culicoides spp. proven to transmit btv and/or ehdv-culicoides (hoffmania) insignis lutz (diptera: ceratopogonidae) and culicoides (monoculicoides) sonorensis wirth and jones (diptera: ceratopogonidae). culicoides sonorensis is considered the primary ...	2018	29534230
the reference transcriptome of the adult female biting midge (culicoides sonorensis) and differential gene expression profiling during teneral, blood, and sucrose feeding conditions.	unlike other important vectors such as mosquitoes and sandflies, genetic and genomic tools for culicoides biting midges are lacking, despite the fact that they vector a large number of arboviruses and other pathogens impacting humans and domestic animals world-wide. in north america, female culicoides sonorensis midges are important vectors of bluetongue virus (btv) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (ehdv), orbiviruses that cause significant disease in livestock and wildlife. libraries of ...	2014	24866149
rna interference targets arbovirus replication in culicoides cells.	arboviruses are transmitted to vertebrate hosts by biting arthropod vectors such as mosquitoes, ticks, and midges. these viruses replicate in both arthropods and vertebrates and are thus exposed to different antiviral responses in these organisms. rna interference (rnai) is a sequence-specific rna degradation mechanism that has been shown to play a major role in the antiviral response against arboviruses in mosquitoes. culicoides midges are important vectors of arboviruses, known to transmit pat ...	2012	23269795
salivary gland extracts of culicoides sonorensis inhibit murine lymphocyte proliferation and no production by macrophages.	culicoides biting midges serve as vectors of pathogens affecting humans and domestic animals. culicoides sonorensis is a vector of several arboviruses in north american that cause substantial economic losses to the us livestock industry. previous studies showed that c. sonorensis saliva, like the saliva of many hematophagous arthropods, contains numerous pharmacological agents that affect hemostasis and early events in the inflammatory response, which may enhance the infectivity of culicoides-bo ...	2006	16968936
susceptibility of culicoides variipennis sonorensis to infection by polymerase chain reaction-detectable bluetongue virus in cattle blood.	cattle bloods containing only polymerase chain reaction (pcr)--detectable bluetongue-10 viral nucleic acid, but as determined by virus isolation techniques, not bluetongue-10 virus, were incapable of infecting intrathoracically inoculated culicoides variipennis sonorensis. these insects also failed to transmit bluetongue-10 virus when fed on sheep. cattle whose blood contain only pcr-detectable bluetongue viral nucleic acid, but no infectious virus, are unlikely to play a role in the epidemiolog ...	1996	8644902