2024

Tung GA, Fonseca DM. 2024. Internal and external drivers interact to create highly dynamic mosquito blood-feeding behaviour. Proc Biol Sci. 291(2029):20241105. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1105. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1105

González J, Fonseca DM, Toledo A. 2024. Effect of short photoperiod on the development of Haemaphysalis longicornis (Ixodida: Ixodidae). J Med Entomol. 61(2):504-507. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjad171. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad171

selected peer-reviewed publications since 2018 (from a life time list of 134)

Herb H, González J, Ferreira FC, Fonseca DM. 2023. Multiple piroplasm parasites (Apicomplexa: Piroplasmida) in northeastern populations of the invasive Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann (Ixodida: Ixodidae), in the United States. Parasitology. 2023 Sep;150(11):1063-1069. doi: 10.1017/S0031182023000914

Ferreira FC, González J, Milholland MT, Tung GA, Fonseca DM. Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) on synanthropic small and medium-sized mammals in areas of the northeastern United States infested with the Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis. Int J Parasitol. 2023 Dec;53(14):809-819. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2023.06.003.

Rochlin I, Egizi A, Narvaez Z, Bonilla DL, Williams GM, Rainey T, Price DC, Fonseca DM 2023 Microhabitat modeling of the invasive Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) in New Jersey, USA. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 4(2): 102126 13 pages https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2023.102126

Brennan JR, Boychuck S, Washkwich AJ, John-Alder H, Fonseca DM 2023 Tick abundance and diversity are substantially lower in thinned vs. unthinned forests in the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve, USA. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases https://www.sciencedirect.com/ science/article/pii/S1877959X22002084

Ferreira FC, Videvall E, Seidl CM, Wagner NE, Kilpatrick AM, Fleischer RC, Fonseca DM 2022 Transcriptional response of individual Hawaiian Culex quinquefasciatusmosquitoes to the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum. Malaria Journal 21(1): 249.doi: 10.1186/s12936-022-04271-x.

Aardema ML, Campana MG, Wagner NE, Ferreira FC, Fonseca DM 2022 A gene-based capture assay for surveying patterns of genetic diversity and insecticide resistance in a worldwide group of invasive mosquitoes. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16(8), e0010689

Bajwa WI, Tsynman L, Egizi AM, Tokarz R, Maestas L, Fonseca DM 2022 The Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum (Ixodida: Ixodidae) and spotted fever group Rickettsia in the highly urbanized northeastern US. Journal of Medical Entomology 59(4):1434-1442. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac053

Aardema ML, Olatunji SK, Fonseca DM. 2021. The enigmatic Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) species complex: phylogenetic challenges and opportunities from a notoriously tricky mosquito group. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 115(1): 95–104

Occi JL, Robbins R, Egizi A, Fonseca DM. 2020. First Record of Carios kelleyi (Cooley and Kohls) (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae) in New Jersey, USA and implications for public health. Journal of Medical Entomology 58 (2): 939-942 https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa189

Ferreira F, Fonseca DM, Hamilton G, Price D. 2020. Metagenomic analysis of human-biting cat fleas in urban northeastern United States of America reveals an emerging zoonotic pathogen Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72956-x

Lemanski NJ, Schwab SR, Fonseca DM, Fefferman, NH 2020 Coordination among neighbors improves the efficacy of mosquito-borne disease control despite economic costs. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007870

Egizi AE [26 co-authors including JL Occi] Fonseca DM. 2020. First glimpse into the origin and epidemiological spread of the Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, in the United States. Zoonoses and Public Health. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zph.12743

Occi J, Egizi A, Goncalves A, Fonseca DM. 2020. New Jersey-wide survey of spotted fever Rickettsia (Proteobacteria: Rickettsiaceae) in Dermacentor variabilis and Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 103(3):1009-1016 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32588804/

Valentin RE, Fonseca DM, Gable S, Kyle K, Hamilton, GC, Nielsen AL, Lockwood JL. 2020. Moving eDNA surveys onto land: strategies for active eDNA aggregation to detect invasive forest insects. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1755-0998.13151

Dusfour I, Vontas J, David J-P, Weetman D, Fonseca DM, Corbel V, Raghavendra K, Coulibaly MB, Martins AJ, Kasai S, Chandre F. 2019. Management of insecticide resistance in the major Aedes vectors of arboviruses: advances and challenges PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(10): e0007615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007615

Egizi AM, Occi JL, Price DC, Fonseca DM 2019 Leveraging the expertise of the New Jersey mosquito control community to jump start standardized tick surveillance Insects (special Issue on Tick Surveillance and Tick-borne Diseases) 10(8), 219. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10080219

Corbel C, Achee NL, Chandre F, Coulibaly MB, David J-P, Devine GJ, Dusfour I, Fonseca DM, Griego J, Juntarajumnong W, Lenhart A, Martins AJ, Moyes C, Ng LC, Pinto J, Raghavendra K, Vatandoost H, JVontas J, Muller P, Kasai S, Weetman D, Durot C, Pompon JF 2019 Second WIN International Conference on “Integrated approaches and innovative tools for combating insecticide resistance in vectors of arboviruses”, October 2018, Singapore. Parasites and Vectors 12 (1): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3591-8

Occi J, Egizi AM, Robbins RG, Fonseca DM 2919 Annotated list of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of New Jersey. Journal of Medical Entomology. 56 (3), 589-598

Egizi AM, Robbins RG, Beati L, Nava S, Evans C, Occi J, Fonseca DM 2919 A pictorial key to differentiate the recently detected exotic Haemaphysalis longicornis from native congeners in North America. Zookeys. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.818.30448.

Beard CB, Occi J, Bonilla DL, Egizi AM, Fonseca DM, Mertins JW [25 co-authors] Halperin W. 2018. Multistate infestation with an exotic disease-vector tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. MMWR. 67(47):1310-1313. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6747a3.

Roiz D, Wilson AL, Scott T, Fonseca DM, Jourdain F, Müller P, Velayudhan R, Corbel V 2018 Integrated Aedes Management for the control of Aedes-borne diseases PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 12(12):e0006845. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006845

Johnson BJ, Brosch D, Christian A, Wells E, Wells M, Bhandoola AF, Milne A, Garrison S, Fonseca DM 2018 Neighbors-help-neighbors control urban mosquitoes. Nature Scientific Reports 8(1):15797. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34161-9

Non-peer reviewed

Occi J, Egizi A, Fonseca DM. 2018. Lone star ticks in New Jersey: risk, ecology and prevention Rutgers Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet No. 1281. New Brunswick, New Jersey 4 pp. http://njaes.rutgers.edu/pubs/fs1281/

Occi J, Fonseca DM. 2016. “Ticks and Gardening”. Gardener News. August issue, Larry Katz Rutgers NJAES column.

Fonseca DM. 2016. “Strengthening a Zika weak link: what gardeners should know”. Gardener News. July issue, Larry Katz Rutgers NJAES column.

Helen Spafford (chair), Robert Venette, Dina Fonseca, Ariel Rivers, Alejandro Calixto. 2016. The Not so-hidden dangers of invasive species. ESA Position Statement on Invasive Species. Approved April 21, 2016 valid through April 21, 2020.

Rector P, Duckworth TN, and Fonseca DM. 2014. Rain Barrels and Mosquitoes. Rutgers Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet No. 1240. New Brunswick, New Jersey 4 pp. https://njaes.rutgers.edu/pubs/fs1240/ (Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals 2015 Short Publication Silver Award)

Fonseca DM 2016 Approaches to infer vectorial capacity: from rapid assays to population genomics and transcriptomics. A paper in a Symposium on “Arthropod-borne infectious diseases and arthropods as disease agents in human and animal health” 1-3 October 2016, Berlin, Germany. Accepted for publication in Nova Acta Leopoldina a publication of the German Academy of Science Leopoldina.

Fonseca DM 2016 Steps for effective mosquito control in response to a potential Zika virus outbreak. Submitted to the Joint Subcommittee Meeting on Foreign Affairs entitled “The Global Zika Epidemic: Emerging in the Americas” (Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Chairman & Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Chairman), February 10, 2016.