SELECTED BioMIA LAB PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2000

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ADLER, P. H., J. J. Becnel & B. Moser. 2000. Molecular characterization and taxonomy of a new species of Caudosporidae (Microsporidia) from black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae), with host-derived relationships of the North American caudosporids. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 75: 133-143.

ADLER, P. H. & B. Belqat. 2001. Cytotaxonomy of the Prosimulium hirtipes species group (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Morocco. Journal of Insect Systematics and Evolution 32: 411-418.

ADLER, P. H. & E. A. Kachvoryan. 2001. Cytogenetics of the Holarctic black fly Simulium noelleri (Diptera: Simuliidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 1972-1979.

ADLER, P. H. & J. W. McCreadie. 2009. Black flies (Simuliidae). Pp. 183-200. In G. Mullen & L. Durden (eds.). Medical and Veterinary Entomology. Academic Press, NY. 2nd edition. Elsevier. San Diego, CA. 930 pp.

ADLER, P. H. & W. WILLS. 2003. Legacy of death: the history of arthropod-borne human diseases in South Carolina. American Entomologist 49: 216-228. [feature article].

ADLER, P. H. & B. Malmqvist. 2004. Predation on black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) by the carnivorous plant Pinguicula vulgaris (Lentibulariaceae) in northern Sweden. Entomologica Fennica 15: 124-128.

ADLER, P. H., D. C. Currie & D. M. Wood. 2004. The Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North America. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. xv + 941 pp. + 24 color plates. Cornell University Press

 

ADLER, P. H., D. J. Giberson & L. A. Purcell. 2005. Insular black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of North America: tests of colonization hypotheses. Journal of Biogeography 32: 211-220. PDF

ADLER, P. H. 2005. Black flies, the Simuliidae. Pp. 127-140. In W. C. Marquardt (ed.). Biology of Disease Vectors, 2nd edition. Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA. Elsevier Academic Press

ADLER, P. H., D. Roach, W. K. Reeves, J. P. Flanagan, M. E. Morrow & J. E. Toepfer. 2007. Attacks on the endangered Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) by black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) infected with an avian blood parasite. Journal of Vector Ecology 32: 309-312.

ADLER, P. H. & D. C. Currie. 2008. Simuliidae. Pp. 825-845. In R. W. Merritt, K. W. Cummins & M. B. Berg (eds.). An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, 4th edition. Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa.

ADLER, P.H. & D.C. Currie. 2008. Barbarians at the gate: the biting flies of Beringia. Alaska Park Science 7 (1): 28-31.

ADLER, P. H. 2009. Legs. Pp. 555-558. In V. H. Resh & R. Cardé (eds.). Encyclopedia of Insects. Elsevier, San Diego, CA. 1,132 pp.

BEARD, C. E. & P. H. ADLER. 2000. Bionomics, axenic culture and substrate-related variation in trichospores of Smittium megazygosporum. Mycologia 92: 296-300.

BEARD, C. E. & P. H. ADLER. 2002. Seasonality of trichomycetes in larval black flies from South Carolina, USA. Mycologia 94: 200-209. PDF

BEARD, C. E. & P. H. ADLER. 2003. Zygospores of selected Trichomycetes in larval Diptera of the families Chironomidae and Simuliidae. Mycologia 95: 316-319. PDF

BEARD, C. E., J. W. McCreadie & P. H. Adler. 2003. Prevalence of the Trichomycete fungus Harpella melusinae (Harpellales: Harpellaceae) in larval black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) across a heterogeneous environment. Mycologia 95: 577-583. PDF

Brockhouse, C. L. & P. H. ADLER. 2002. Cytogenetics of laboratory colonies of Simulium vittatum cytospecies IS-7 (Diptera: Simuliidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 39: 293-297. PDF

Currie, D. C. & P. H. ADLER. 2008. Global diversity of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 469-475.

Duncan, G., P. H. ADLER, K. P. Pruess & T. O. Powers. 2004. Molecular differentiation of two sibling species of the black fly Simulium vittatum (Diptera: Simuliidae) based on random amplified polymorphic DNA. Genome 47: 373-379. PDF

Durden, L. A., W. WILLS & K. L. Clark. 1999. The Fleas (Siphonaptera) of S.C. with an Assessment of Their Vectorial Importance. Journal of Vector Ecology 24: 171-181.

Foottit, R. G. & P. H. ADLER. 2009. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Chichester. 632 pp.

Green, T. B., S. White, S. Rao, P. P. C. Mertens, P. H. ADLER & J. J. Becnel. 2007. Biological and molecular studies of a cypovirus from the black fly Simulium ubiquitum (Diptera: Simuliidae). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 95: 26-32.

Hamada, N., J. W. McCreadie & P. H. ADLER. 2002. Species richness and spatial distributions of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in streams of Central Amazonia, Brazil. Freshwater Biology 47: 31-40. PDF

Hamada, N., E. da Silva Pereira & P. H. ADLER. 2008. Polytene chromosomes of Simulium (Psaroniocompsa) daltanhani from Central Amazonia, Brazil. Zootaxa 1676: 57-62.

Ilmonen, J., P. H. ADLER, B. Malmqvist & A. Cywinska. 2009. The Simulium vernum group (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Europe: multiple character sets for assessing species status. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156: 847-863.

JITKLANG, S., C. Kuvangkadilok, V. Baimai, H. Takaoka & P. H. ADLER. 2008. Cytogenetics and morphotaxonomy of the Simulium (Gomphostilbia) ceylonicum species group (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Thailand. Zootaxa 1917: 1-28.

Kim, S. K. & P. H. ADLER. 2005. Multiple symbiotes in larval black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae): Associations of trichomycete fungi with ichthyosporeans, mermithid nematodes, and microsporidia. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 88: 247-253. PDF

Kim, S.-K. & P. H. ADLER. 2007. Size variation of trichospores of Harpella melusinae in larval black flies. Mycologia 99: 351-355.

Kim, S.-K. & P. H. ADLER. 2009. Digestive system of larval black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae): structure and phylogeny. Invertebrate Biology 128: 182-204.

Malmqvist, B., D. Strasevicius, O. Hellberg, P. H. ADLER & S. Bensch. 2004. Vertebrate host specificity of wild-caught blackflies revealed by mitochondrial DNA in blood. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biology Letters 271: S152-S155. PDF

Malmqvist, B., P. H. ADLER, K. Kuusela, R. W. Merritt & R. S. Wotton. 2004. Black flies in the boreal biome, key organisms in both terrestrial and aquatic environments: a review. Écoscience 11: 187-200.

Malmqvist, B., P. H. ADLER & D. Strasevicius. 2004. Testing hypotheses on egg number and size in blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Journal of Vector Ecology 29: 248-256. PDF

Malmqvist, B., D. Strasevicius & P. H. ADLER. 2007. Catches of bloodsucking blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) tell different stories depending on sampling methods. Entomologica Fennica 18: 110-116.

McCreadie, J. W. & C. E. BEARD. 2003. The microdistribution of the trichomycete Smittium culisetae in the hindgut of the black fly host Simulium vittatum. Mycologia 95: 998-1003. PDF

McCreadie, J. W., P. H. ADLER & N. Hamada. 2005. Patterns of species richness for blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. Ecological Entomology 30: 201-209. PDF

McCreadie, J. W., C. E. BEARD & P. H. ADLER. 2005. Context-dependent symbiosis between black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) and trichomycete fungi (Harpellales: Legeriomycetaceae). Oikos 108: 362-370. PDF

McCreadie, J. W. & P. H. ADLER. 2006. Ecoregions as predictors of lotic assemblages of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Ecography 29: 603-613.

McCreadie, J. W. & P. H. ADLER. 2008. Spatial distribution of rare species in lotic habitats. Insect Conservation and Diversity 1: 127-134. [Selected as Editors' Choice].

Miller, G. L. & P. H. ADLER. 2009. "...drenched in dirt and drowned in abominations...": Insects and the Civil War. Pp. 5-12. In Proceedings of the Department of Defense Symposium "Evolution of Military Medical Entomology." Armed Forces Pest Management Board Bulletin. 77 pp.

Nelder, M. P., P. H. ADLER & E. A. Kachvoryan. 2005. Do gut symbiotes reflect the endemism of their host black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the Caucasus of Armenia? Journal of Biogeography 32: 1333-1341. PDF

Nelder, M. P., J. W. McCreadie & C. E. BEARD. 2005 Laboratory investigations of trichomycete host usage in a Smittium-simuliid model. Mycologia 92: 338-345. PDF

Nelder, M. P. & W. K. Reeves. 2005. Ectoparasites of road-killed vertebrates in northwestern South Carolina, U.S.A. Veterinary Parasitology 129: 313-322. PDF

Nelder, M. P., W. K. Reeves, J. A. Korecki & L. A. Durden. 2005. Fleas of the genus Ceratophyllus (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) in the southeastern United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107: 471-473. PDF

Nelder, M. P., E. S. Paysen, P. A. Zungoli & E. P. Benson. 2006. Emergence of the introduced ant Pachycondyla chinensis as a public health threat in the southeastern United States. Journal of Medical Entomology 43: 1094-1098. PDF

Nelder, M. P., C. E. BEARD, P. H. ADLER, S.-K. Kim & J. W. McCreadie. 2006. Harpellales (Zygomycota: Trichomycetes) associated with black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae): world review and synthesis of their ecology and taxonomy. Fungal Diversity 22: 121-169. PDF

Nelder, M. P., J. W. McCreadie, & C. E. BEARD. 2009. Predicting occurence of the fungal symbiote Harpella colonizing black fly larvae in coastal streams of Alabama and Mississippi, USA. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 102: 1-5.

Reeves, W. K., P. H. ADLER, O. Rätti, B. Malmqvist & D. Strasevicius. 2007. Molecular detection of Trypanosoma (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) in black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Comparative Parasitology 74: 171-175.

Reeves, W. K., M. P. Nelder & J. A. Korecki. 2005. Bartonella and Rickettsia in fleas and lice from mammals in South Carolina, USA. Journal of Vector Ecology 30: 310-315. PDF

Reeves, W. K., M. P. Nelder & K. D. Cobb. 2006. Bartonella spp. in deer keds, Lipoptena mazamae (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), from Georgia and South Carolina, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42: 391-396.

Reeves, W. K., C. E. BEARD & D. A. Craig. 2004. Trichomycete symbiotes of Crozetia seguyi, a primitive black fly. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 87:67-69. PDF

Reeves, W. K., A. D. Loftis, R. A. Priestley, W. WILLS, F. Sanders & G. A. Dasch. 2005. Molecular and Biological Characterization of a Novel Coxiella-like Agent from Carios capensis. Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences 1063: 343-345.

Seitz, G. & P. H. ADLER. 2009. A new species of the Simulium vernum group (Diptera: Simuliidae) from the Alps of southeastern Germany. Aquatic Insects 31: 1-10.

Tangkawanit, U., C. Kuvangkadilok, V. Baimai & P. H. ADLER. 2009. Cytosystematics of the Simulium tuberosum group (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Thailand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155: 289-315.

Werner, D. & P. H. ADLER. 2005. A faunistic review of the black flies (Simuliidae, Diptera) of the federal state of Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Abhandlungen und Berichte für Naturkunde 27: 205-245.

Xia, Y., A. Gower, P. H. ADLER, J. VanDyk, G. Kennedy & R. Stinner 2008. Entomology Digital Library (EntDigiL). American Entomologist 54: 10-13.