Costa-da-Silva, A.L., Cabal, S., Lopez, K., Boloix, J., Rodriguez, B.G., Marrero, K.M., Bellantuono, A.J., & DeGennaro, M. (2024) Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes use communal cues to manage population density at breeding sites. Communications Biology. 7:143. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05830-5.

Mappin, F., Bellantuono A.J., Ebrahimi, B., & DeGennaro, M. (2023) Odor-evoked transcriptomics of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. PLoS ONE 18(10): e0293018. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0293018.

Ray, G., Huff, R.M., Castillo, J.S., Bellantuono, A.J., DeGennaro, M., & Pitts, J.R. (2023) Carboxylic Acids that Drive Mosquito Attraction to Humans Activate Ionotropic Receptors. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 17(6): e0011402. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0011402.

David, O.G., Sanchez, K.M., Arce, A.V., Costa-da-Silva, A.L., Bellantuono, A.J., & DeGennaro, M. (2023) Fertility decline in female mosquitoes is regulated by the orco olfactory co-receptor. iScience. 26, 6. 106883. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.106883.

Lucas-Barbosa, D., Balvers, C., Bellantuono, A.J., Castillo, J.S., Costa-da-Silva, A.L., De Moraes, C.M., DeGennaro, M., & Verhulst, N. (2023) Competition matters: using in vitro community models to study the impact of human skin bacteria on mosquito attraction. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11, 1156311. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.115631.

Castillo J.S., Bellantuono A.J., & DeGennaro M. (2023) Quantifying Mosquito Attraction Behavior Using Olfactometry. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.top107660.

Castillo J.S., Bellantuono A.J., & DeGennaro M. (2023) Building a uniport olfactometer to assess mosquito responses to odors. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.prot108174.

Castillo J.S., Bellantuono A.J., & DeGennaro M. (2023) Quantifying mosquito attraction using a uniport olfactometer. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.prot108175.

Benoit, J.B., McCluney, K.E., DeGennaro, M., & Dow, J.A.T. (2023) Dehydration Dynamics in Terrestrial Arthropods: From Water Sensing to Trophic Interactions. Annual Review of Entomology 68:1, 129-149. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-120120-091609.

Chu, E., Chakraborty, S., Benoit, J.B. & DeGennaro, M. (2022) “Water homeostasis and hygrosensation in mosquitoes.” in Sensory Ecology of Disease Vectors, edited by Ignell, R., Lazzari, M.G., & Hill, S.R. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Chapter 25, pp. 655–682. DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-932-9_25.

Nouzova, M., Edwards, M.J., DeGennaro, M., Leyva, D., Lilian V., Tose, L.V., Fernandez-Lima, F., & Noriega, F.G. (2022) Genetics tools for corpora allata specific gene expression in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Scientific Reports 12, 20426. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-25009-4

Barredo, E., Raji, J.I., Ramon, M., DeGennaro, M.,* & Theobald, J.C.* (2022) Carbon dioxide and blood-feeding shift visual cue tracking during navigation in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Biology Letters. 18: 20220270. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2022.0270

Sondhi, Y., Jo, N. J., Alpizar, B., Markee, A., Dansby, H. E., Currea, J.P., Fabian, S.T., Ruiz, C., Barredo, E., Allen, P., DeGennaro, M., Kawahara, A.Y. & Theobald, J.C. (2022) Portable locomotion activity monitor (pLAM): A cost-effective setup for robust activity tracking in small animals. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13; 805-812. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13809.

Mappin, F., & DeGennaro, M. (2022) “Multimodal mechanisms of repellency in arthropods.” Advances in Arthropod Repellents, edited by Coats, J., Corona, C. & Debboun, M. Elsevier, Chapter 7, pp. 113-129.

Nouzova, M., Edwards, M.J., Michalkova, V., Ramirez, C.E., Ruiz, M., Areiza, M., DeGennaro, M., Fernandez-Lima, F., Feyereisen, R., Jindra, M., Noriega, F. G. (2021) Epoxidation of juvenile hormone was a key innovation improving insect reproductive fitness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (45) e2109381118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2109381118 (Cover article)

Lucas-Barbosa, D., DeGennaro, M., Mathis, A., & Verhulst, N.O. (2021) Skin bacterial volatiles: propelling the future of vector control. Trends in Parasitology Sep 18:S1471-4922(21)00208-7.

Medina, M., Sharp, V., Ohdera, A., Bellantuono, A., Dalrymple, J., Gamero-Mora, E., Steinworth, B., Hofmann, D. K., Martindale, M. Q., Morandini, A. C., DeGennaro, M., & Fitt, W. K. (2021) “The Upside-Down Jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana as an Emerging Model System to Study Cnidarian–Algal Symbiosis.” Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in Experimental Biology Established and Emerging, edited by Agnès Boutet & Bernd Schierwater CRC Press, Chapter 9, pp. 149-171.

Barredo, E & DeGennaro, M. (2020) Not just from blood: Mosquito nutrient acquisition from nectar sources. Trends in Parasitology 36 (5), 473-484.

Melo., N., Wolff, G., H., Costa-da-Silva, A., L., Arribas, R., Triana, M., F., Gugger, M., Riffell, J., A., DeGennaro M., & Stensmyr, M. C. (2020) Geosmin attracts Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to oviposition sites. Current Biology 30; 1-8.

Onyango, M., Payne, A., Mathias, N., Kuo, L., Vigneron, A., DeGennaro, M., Ciota, A., & Kramer, L. (2020) Increased temperatures reduce the vectorial capacity of Aedes mosquitoes for Zika virus. Emerging Microbes & Infections 9 (1); 67-77.

Raji, JI, Gonzalez, S, and DeGennaro, M. (2019) Aedes aegypti Ir8a mutant female mosquitoes show increased attraction to standing water. Communicative & Integrative Biology 12:1, 181-186.

Raji, J., Melo, N., Castillo, J., Gonzalez, S., Saldana, V., Stensmyr, M., & DeGennaro, M. (2019) Aedes aegypti mosquitoes detect acidic volatiles in found human odor sing the IR8a Pathway. Current Biology.

Flora, P., Schowalter S., Wong-Deyrup, S., DeGennaro M., Ali Nasrallah M., & Rangan P. (2018) Transient transcriptional silencing alters the cell cycle to promote germline stem cell differentiation in Drosophila. Dev. Biology 434; 84-95.

Joshua I. Raji & DeGennaro, M. (2017) Genetic analysis of mosquito detection of humans. Curr. Opin. Ins. Sci. 20, 34-38. 

Matthews, B., McBride, C., DeGennaro, M., Despo O. & Vosshall, L. B. (2016) The neurotranscriptome of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. BMC Genomics 17:32. 

DeGennaro, M. (2015) The mysterious multi-modal repellency of DEET. Fly. 9:1, 45-51. 

DeGennaro, M., McBride, C., Seeholzer, L., Nakagawa, T., Dennis, E.J., Goldman, C., Jasinskiene, N., James, A. A., & Vosshall, L. B. (2013) orco mutant mosquitoes lose strong preference for humans and are not repelled by volatile DEET. Nature 498; 487-491.

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