Recent Publications: 2005 - 2015
Lab trainees indicated in bold face
Lab trainees indicated in bold face
Taracena, M.L., P. L. Oliveira, O. Almendares, C. Umaña, C. Lowenberger, E. Dotson, G.O. Paiva-Silva, and P.M. Pennington. 2015. Genetically Modifying the insect gut microbiota to control Chagas Disease vectors through systemic RNAi. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9(2): e0003358. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003358
Bahrndorff, S. C. Gill, C. Lowenberger, H. Skovgård, and B. Hald. 2014. The Effects of Temperature and Innate Immunity on Transmission of Campylobacter jejuni (Campylobacterales: Campylobacteraceae) between Life Stages of Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae). J. Med. Entomol. 51: 670-677
Ocampo, C.B., P.A Caicedo, G. Jaramillo, R. Ursic Bedoya, O. Baron, I.M. Serrato, D.M. Cooper and C. Lowenberger. 2013. Identification of Apoptosis-related factors used by Aedes aegypti to eliminate Dengue virus. PLoS One 8(4): e61187. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061187
Caicedo, P.A., O.L. Barón, M. Pérez, N. Alexander, C. Lowenberger, and Clara B Ocampo. 2013. Selection of Aedes aegypti strains that are susceptible or refractory to Dengue-2 virus. Canadian Entomologist 145: 1–10
Pacheco, M.A., M.J. Reid, M.A. Schillaci, C.A. Lowenberger, B.M. Galdikas, L. Jones-Engel and A. A. Escalante. 2012. The origin of malarial parasites in orangutans. PLoS One. 7:e34990. Epub Apr 20.
Mitchell-Foster, K, B.O. Ma, C. Logan, S. Warsame Ali, M. E. Rau, and C. Lowenberger. 2012. The influence of larval density, food stress, and parasitism on the bionomics of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae): implications for integrated vector management. J. Vector Ecol. 37: 221229. DOI: 10.1111/j.1948-7134.2012.00220.x
Waliwitiya, R., R. Nicholson, C. Kennedy, and C.A. Lowenberger. 2012. The Synergistic Effects of Insecticidal Essential Oils and Piperonyl Butoxide on Biotransformational Enzyme Activities in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) J. Med.Entomology 49: 614-623.
Waliwitiya, R., P. Belton, R. Nicholson, and C. Lowenberger. 2012. Plant terpenoids: acute toxicities and effects on flight motor activity and wing beat frequency in the blowfly Phaenicia sericata. J. Econ. Entomology 105: 72-84
Ursic-Bedoya, R., J. Buchhop, J.B. Joy, A. Fieck, R. Durvasula, and C. Lowenberger. 2011. Prolixin: a novel antimicrobial peptide isolated from Rhodnius prolixus with differential activity against bacteria and Trypanosoma cruzi. Insect Molecular Biology 20: 775-786.
Stuyt, M., R. Ursic, D. Cooper, N. Huitson, G. Anderson, and C. Lowenberger. 2010. Identification of host material from crops and whole bodies of Protophormia terraenovae (Diptera) larvae, pupae, and adults, and the implications for forensic entomology studies. Can. Soc. Forensic Sci.J. 43: 97-107
Barón, O.L., R.J. Ursic-Bedoya, C. Lowenberger, and C.B. Ocampo. 2010. Differential Gene Expression from Midguts of Refractory and Susceptible lines of Aedes aegypti infected with Dengue-2 virus. J. Insect Science. Vol 10: Article 41 10.
Waliwitiya, R., C. P. Belton, R. Nicholson, and C. Lowenberger, 2010. Effects of the essential oil constituent thymol and other neuroactive chemicals on flight motor activity and wing beat frequency in the blowfly Phaenicia sericata. Pest Management Science 65: 241–248.
Ursic-Bedoya, R., J. Buchhop and C. Lowenberger. 2009. Cloning and characterization of Dorsal homologues in hemipteran Rhodnius prolixus. Insect Molecular Biology 18: 681–689.
Plunkett, R.M., S.I. Murray and C. Lowenberger. 2009. Activity of a hybrid antimicrobial peptide combining functional domains from insect cecropins. Can. J. Microbiol. 55: 520-528
Cooper, D.M., D. Granville, and C. Lowenberger. 2009. The Insect Caspases. Apoptosis 14: 247–256
Ericsson, J., A. F. Janmaat, C. Lowenberger, and J.H. Myers. 2009. Is decreased generalized immunity a cost of Btk resistance in cabbage loopers Trichoplusia ni (Hubner)? J. Invert. Pathol. 100: 61–67
Waliwitiya, R., C. Kennedy, and C. Lowenberger, 2009. Larvicidal and ovipositional altering activity of monoterpenoids, trans anithole, and rosemary oil to the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Pest Management Science 65: 241–248
Cooper, D., C. Chamberlain, and C. Lowenberger. 2009. Aedes FADD: A novel death domain containing protein required for antibacterial immunity in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39: 47–54
Leighton, B., B.D. Roitberg, P. Belton, and C. Lowenberger. 2008. The Use of Mosquito Blood Meals as Diagnostic Tools for Detecting and Monitoring Infectious Disease in Wildlife. Journal of Medical Entomology 45: 470-475.
Lardeux, F., X. Tejerina, X. Aliaga, R. Ursic, C. Lowenberger, and T. Chavez. 2008. Semi-nested multiplex PCR for identification of malaria parasites in wild-caught mosquitoes: First direct evidence of Plasmodium vivax transmission by Anopheles pseudopunctipennis in Bolivia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene102: 485-492.
Ursic, R., H. Nazzari, O. Triana, M. Wolff, & C. Lowenberger. 2008. Identification and characterization of two novel lysozymes from Rhodnius prolixus, a vector of Chagas disease. J. Insect Physiology 54: 593–603.
Cooper, D. M., E. P. Thi, C. M. Chamberlain, F. Pio, and C. Lowenberger. 2007. Aedes Dronc: a novel ecdysone inducible caspase in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Molecular Biology 16: 563-572.
Cooper, D.M., F. Pio, E.P. Thi, D. Theilmann, and C. Lowenberger. 2007. Characterization of Aedes Dredd: A novel initiator caspase from the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37: 559–569.
Ursic-Bedoya, R.J. and C. Lowenberger. 2007. Rhodnius prolixus: identification of immune related genes up regulated in response to pathogens and parasites using suppressive subtractive hybridization. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 31: 109-120.
Reid, M.J., R. Ursic, D.Cooper, H. Nazzari, M. Griffiths, R.Garriga, B.M. Galdikas, M.Skinner and C.
Lowenberger. 2006. Cross Species Transmission of Human and Macaque Plasmodium sp. to WildBorn Ex-Captive Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12:1902-1908.
Boulanger, N., P. Bulet, and C. Lowenberger. 2006. Antimicrobial peptides in the interactions between insects and flagellate parasites. Trends in Parasitology 22: 262-268.
Ursic Bedoya, R.J., A. M. Mitzey, M. Obraztsova, and C. Lowenberger. 2005. Molecular cloning and transcriptional activation of lysozyme-encoding cDNAs in the mosquito Aedes aegypti . Insect Molecular Biology 14: 89–94
Bahrndorff, S. C. Gill, C. Lowenberger, H. Skovgård, and B. Hald. 2014. The Effects of Temperature and Innate Immunity on Transmission of Campylobacter jejuni (Campylobacterales: Campylobacteraceae) between Life Stages of Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae). J. Med. Entomol. 51: 670-677
Ocampo, C.B., P.A Caicedo, G. Jaramillo, R. Ursic Bedoya, O. Baron, I.M. Serrato, D.M. Cooper and C. Lowenberger. 2013. Identification of Apoptosis-related factors used by Aedes aegypti to eliminate Dengue virus. PLoS One 8(4): e61187. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061187
Caicedo, P.A., O.L. Barón, M. Pérez, N. Alexander, C. Lowenberger, and Clara B Ocampo. 2013. Selection of Aedes aegypti strains that are susceptible or refractory to Dengue-2 virus. Canadian Entomologist 145: 1–10
Pacheco, M.A., M.J. Reid, M.A. Schillaci, C.A. Lowenberger, B.M. Galdikas, L. Jones-Engel and A. A. Escalante. 2012. The origin of malarial parasites in orangutans. PLoS One. 7:e34990. Epub Apr 20.
Mitchell-Foster, K, B.O. Ma, C. Logan, S. Warsame Ali, M. E. Rau, and C. Lowenberger. 2012. The influence of larval density, food stress, and parasitism on the bionomics of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae): implications for integrated vector management. J. Vector Ecol. 37: 221229. DOI: 10.1111/j.1948-7134.2012.00220.x
Waliwitiya, R., R. Nicholson, C. Kennedy, and C.A. Lowenberger. 2012. The Synergistic Effects of Insecticidal Essential Oils and Piperonyl Butoxide on Biotransformational Enzyme Activities in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) J. Med.Entomology 49: 614-623.
Waliwitiya, R., P. Belton, R. Nicholson, and C. Lowenberger. 2012. Plant terpenoids: acute toxicities and effects on flight motor activity and wing beat frequency in the blowfly Phaenicia sericata. J. Econ. Entomology 105: 72-84
Ursic-Bedoya, R., J. Buchhop, J.B. Joy, A. Fieck, R. Durvasula, and C. Lowenberger. 2011. Prolixin: a novel antimicrobial peptide isolated from Rhodnius prolixus with differential activity against bacteria and Trypanosoma cruzi. Insect Molecular Biology 20: 775-786.
Stuyt, M., R. Ursic, D. Cooper, N. Huitson, G. Anderson, and C. Lowenberger. 2010. Identification of host material from crops and whole bodies of Protophormia terraenovae (Diptera) larvae, pupae, and adults, and the implications for forensic entomology studies. Can. Soc. Forensic Sci.J. 43: 97-107
Barón, O.L., R.J. Ursic-Bedoya, C. Lowenberger, and C.B. Ocampo. 2010. Differential Gene Expression from Midguts of Refractory and Susceptible lines of Aedes aegypti infected with Dengue-2 virus. J. Insect Science. Vol 10: Article 41 10.
Waliwitiya, R., C. P. Belton, R. Nicholson, and C. Lowenberger, 2010. Effects of the essential oil constituent thymol and other neuroactive chemicals on flight motor activity and wing beat frequency in the blowfly Phaenicia sericata. Pest Management Science 65: 241–248.
Ursic-Bedoya, R., J. Buchhop and C. Lowenberger. 2009. Cloning and characterization of Dorsal homologues in hemipteran Rhodnius prolixus. Insect Molecular Biology 18: 681–689.
Plunkett, R.M., S.I. Murray and C. Lowenberger. 2009. Activity of a hybrid antimicrobial peptide combining functional domains from insect cecropins. Can. J. Microbiol. 55: 520-528
Cooper, D.M., D. Granville, and C. Lowenberger. 2009. The Insect Caspases. Apoptosis 14: 247–256
Ericsson, J., A. F. Janmaat, C. Lowenberger, and J.H. Myers. 2009. Is decreased generalized immunity a cost of Btk resistance in cabbage loopers Trichoplusia ni (Hubner)? J. Invert. Pathol. 100: 61–67
Waliwitiya, R., C. Kennedy, and C. Lowenberger, 2009. Larvicidal and ovipositional altering activity of monoterpenoids, trans anithole, and rosemary oil to the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Pest Management Science 65: 241–248
Cooper, D., C. Chamberlain, and C. Lowenberger. 2009. Aedes FADD: A novel death domain containing protein required for antibacterial immunity in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39: 47–54
Leighton, B., B.D. Roitberg, P. Belton, and C. Lowenberger. 2008. The Use of Mosquito Blood Meals as Diagnostic Tools for Detecting and Monitoring Infectious Disease in Wildlife. Journal of Medical Entomology 45: 470-475.
Lardeux, F., X. Tejerina, X. Aliaga, R. Ursic, C. Lowenberger, and T. Chavez. 2008. Semi-nested multiplex PCR for identification of malaria parasites in wild-caught mosquitoes: First direct evidence of Plasmodium vivax transmission by Anopheles pseudopunctipennis in Bolivia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene102: 485-492.
Ursic, R., H. Nazzari, O. Triana, M. Wolff, & C. Lowenberger. 2008. Identification and characterization of two novel lysozymes from Rhodnius prolixus, a vector of Chagas disease. J. Insect Physiology 54: 593–603.
Cooper, D. M., E. P. Thi, C. M. Chamberlain, F. Pio, and C. Lowenberger. 2007. Aedes Dronc: a novel ecdysone inducible caspase in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Molecular Biology 16: 563-572.
Cooper, D.M., F. Pio, E.P. Thi, D. Theilmann, and C. Lowenberger. 2007. Characterization of Aedes Dredd: A novel initiator caspase from the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37: 559–569.
Ursic-Bedoya, R.J. and C. Lowenberger. 2007. Rhodnius prolixus: identification of immune related genes up regulated in response to pathogens and parasites using suppressive subtractive hybridization. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 31: 109-120.
Reid, M.J., R. Ursic, D.Cooper, H. Nazzari, M. Griffiths, R.Garriga, B.M. Galdikas, M.Skinner and C.
Lowenberger. 2006. Cross Species Transmission of Human and Macaque Plasmodium sp. to WildBorn Ex-Captive Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12:1902-1908.
Boulanger, N., P. Bulet, and C. Lowenberger. 2006. Antimicrobial peptides in the interactions between insects and flagellate parasites. Trends in Parasitology 22: 262-268.
Ursic Bedoya, R.J., A. M. Mitzey, M. Obraztsova, and C. Lowenberger. 2005. Molecular cloning and transcriptional activation of lysozyme-encoding cDNAs in the mosquito Aedes aegypti . Insect Molecular Biology 14: 89–94