Background The incidence of West Nile virus (WNv) has remained high in the northern Great
Plains compared to the rest of the United States. However, the reasons for the sustained …

Background Understanding the major predictors of disease vectors such as mosquitoes can
guide the development of effective and timely strategies for mitigating vector-borne disease …

Difficulties in correctly differentiating Culex restuans mosquitoes from Culex pipiens have left
the spatiotemporal mechanisms underlying the epidemiology of West Nile virus (WNV) in the …

The abundance of Culex restuans and Culex pipiens in relation to ecological predictors is
poorly understood in regions of the United States where their ranges overlap. It is suspected …

Climate-based models simulating Culex mosquito population abundance in the
Northeastern US were developed. Two West Nile vector species, Culex pipiens and Culex …

Understanding how human land use patterns influence mosquito ecology and the risk of
mosquito-borne pathogens is critical for the development of disease management …

An empirical model to forecast West Nile virus mosquito vector populations is developed
using time series analysis techniques. Specifically, multivariate seasonal autoregressive …

Raising an obligate avian brood parasite is costly for host parents because it redirects
valuable parental resources from one's own offspring to genetically unrelated young. The …

Pesticides commonly contaminate the aquatic environments inhabited by mosquito
juveniles. However, their role in shaping the mosquito microbiota is not well understood. We …

The emergence of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) is of global concern as they can
rapidly spread across countries and to new continents as the recent examples of …