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Linton, Yvonne-Marie
Dr Yvonne-Marie Linton
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Geographic Focus
Selected Publications
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VanAcker, Meredith C., Ergunay, Koray, Webala, Paul W., Kamau, Maureen, Mutura, Janerose, Lebunge, Rashid, Ochola, Griphin Ochieng, Bourke, Brian P., McDermott, Emily G., Achee, Nicole L., Jiang, Le, Grieco, John P., Keter, Erick, Musanga, Audrey, Murray, Suzan, Stabach, Jared A., Craft, Meggan E., Fèvre, Eric M., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, and Hassell, James. 2025. "A Novel Nobecovirus in an Epomophorus wahlbergi Bat from Nairobi, Kenya ." Viruses , 17, (4). https://doi.org/10.3390/v17040557 .
2025
Kamau, Maureen W., Witte, Carmel, Goosen, Wynand, Mutinda, Mathew, Villinger, Jandouwe, Getange, Dennis, Khogali, Rua, von Fricken, Michael E., Fèvre, Eric Maurice, Zimmerman, Dawn, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, and Miller, Michele. 2024. "Comparison of test performance of a conventional PCR and two field-friendly tests to detect Coxiella burnetii DNA in ticks using Bayesian latent class analysis ." Frontiers in Veterinary Science , 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2024.1396714 .
2024
Lilak, Abigail A., Pecor, David B., Matulis, Graham, Potter, Alexander M., Wofford, Rachel N., Kearney, Mary F., Mitchell, Stephanie, Jaradat, Fatima, Kano, Arisa, Zimmerman, Dawn M., Hassell, James M., Kumsa, Bersissa, Kamau, Maureen, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, and von Fricken, Michael E. 2024. "Data release: targeted systematic literature search for tick and tick-borne pathogen distributions in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 1901 to 2020 ." Parasites & Vectors , 17, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06086-4 .
2024
Polaszek, Andrew, Hernández-Suárez, Estrella, Kresslein, Robert L., Hanson, Paul, Linton, Yvonne M., Mackenzie-Dodds, Jacqueline, and Schmidt, Stefan. 2023. "A revision of the Encarsia mexicana species-group (=Dirphys Howard ) (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), gregarious endoparasitoids of whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in the Neotropical Region ." Insects , 14, (6). https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14060570 .
2023
Pecor, David B., Potter, Alexander M., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2023. "Correction to: Implications of Climate Change and Anopheles stephensi Liston in Africa: Knowledge Gaps and Lessons from History ." Current Tropical Medicine Reports , https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-023-00312-w .
2023
von Fricken, Michael E., Melendrez, Mel C., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, and Takhampunya, Ratree. 2023. "Editorial: Metagenomics for epidemiological surveillance in One Health ." Frontiers in Microbiology , 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1191946 .
2023
Laporta, Gabriel Z., Potter, Alexander M., Oliveira, Janeide F. A., Bourke, Brian P., Pecor, David B., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2023. "Global Distribution of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in a Climate Change Scenario of Regional Rivalry ." Insects , 14, (1) 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14010049 .
2023
Bourke, Brian P., Wilkerson, Richard C., Ruiz-Lopez, Fredy, Justi, Silvia A., Pecor, David B., Quinones, Martha L., Navarro, Juan-Carlos, Ormaza, Joubert Alarcón, Ormaza, Joubert Alarcón, Jr., González, Ranulfo, Flores-Mendoza, Carmen, Castro, Fanny, Escovar, Jesús E., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2023. "High Levels of Diversity in Anopheles Subgenus Kerteszia Revealed by Species Delimitation Analyses ." Genes , 14, (2). https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14020344 .
2023
Pecor, David B., Potter, Alexander M., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2023. "Implications of Climate Change and Anopheles stephensi Liston in Africa: Knowledge Gaps and Lessons from History ." Current Tropical Medicine Reports , https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-023-00296-7 .
2023
Soghigian, John, Sither, Charles, Justi, Silvia Andrade, Morinaga, Gen, Cassel, Brian K., Vitek, Christopher J., Livdahl, Todd, Xia, Siyang, Gloria-Soria, Andrea, Powell, Jeffrey R., Zavortink, Thomas, Hardy, Christopher M., Burkett-Cadena, Nathan, Reeves, Lawrence E., Wilkerson, Richard C., Dunn, Robert R., Yeates, David K., Sallum, Maria Anice, Byrd, Brian D., Trautwein, Michelle D., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Reiskind, Michael H., and Wiegmann, Brian M. 2023. "Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes ." Nature Communications , 14, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41764-y .
2023
Lehmann, Tovi, Kouam, Cedric, Woo, Joshua, Diallo, Mawlouth, Wilkerson, Richard, and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2023. "The African mosquito-borne diseasosome: geographical patterns, range expansion and future disease emergence ." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 290, (2011). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1581 .
2023
Lehmann, T., Bamou, R., Chapman, J. W., Reynolds, D. R., Armbruster, P. A., Dao, A., Yaro, A. S., Burkot, T. R., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2023. "Urban malaria may be spreading via the wind—here’s why that’s important ." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 120, (18). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301666120 .
2023
Yaro, Alpha Seydou, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Dao, Adama, Diallo, Moussa, Sanogo, Zana L., Samake, Djibril, Ousmane, Yossi, Kouam, Cedric, Krajacich, Benjamin J., Faiman, Roy, Bamou, Roland, Woo, Joshua, Chapman, Jason W., Reynolds, Don R., and Lehmann, Tovi. 2022. "Diversity, composition, altitude, and seasonality of high-altitude windborne migrating mosquitoes in the Sahel: Implications for disease transmission ." Frontiers in Epidemiology , 2 1001782. https://doi.org/10.3389/fepid.2022.1001782 .
2022
Nelson, Suppaluck Polsomboon, Bourke, Brian P., Badr, Razan, Tarpey, John, Caicedo-Quiroga, Laura, Leiva, Donovan, Pott, Marie, Cruz, Alvaro, Chao, Chien-Chung, Achee, Nicole L., Grieco, John P., Jiang, Le, Jiang, Ju, Farris, Christina M., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2022. "Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) and Associated Pathoge Collected From Domestic Animals and Vegetation in Stann Creek District, Southeastern Belize, Central America ." Journal of medical entomology , https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac112 .
2022
Justi, Silvia Andrade, Soghigian, John, Pecor, David B., Caicedo-Quiroga, Laura, Rutvisuttinunt, Wiriya, Li, Tao, Stevens, Lori, Dorn, Patricia L., Wiegmann, Brian, and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2021. "From e-voucher to genomic data: Preserving archive specimens as demonstrated with medically important mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and kissing bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) ." Plos One , 16, (2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247068 .
2021
Pagac, Benedict B., Spring, Alexandra R., Stawicki, Jonathan R., Dinh, Thien L., Lura, Taylor, Kavanaugh, Michael D., Pecor, David B., Justi, Silvia A., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2021. "Incursion and establishment of the Old World arbovirus vector Aedes (Fredwardsius) vittatus (Bigot, 1861) in the Americas ." Acta Tropica , 213 105739–105739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105739 .
2021
Bourke, Brian P., Wilkerson, Richard C., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2021. "Molecular species delimitation reveals high diversity in the mosquito Anopheles tessellatus Theobald, 1901 (Diptera, Culicidae) across its range ." Acta Tropica , 215 105799–105799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105799 .
2021
Goodwin, Adam, Padmanabhan, Sanket, Hira, Sanchit, Glancey, Margaret, Slinowsky, Monet, Immidisetti, Rakhil, Scavo, Laura, Brey, Jewell, Sudhakar, Bala Murali Manoghar Sai, Ford, Tristan, Heier, Collyn, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Pecor, David B., Caicedo-Quiroga, Laura, and Acharya, Soumyadipta. 2021. "Mosquito species identification using convolutional neural networks with a multitiered ensemble model for novel species detection ." Scientific Reports , 11, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92891-9 .
2021
Haddow, Andrew D., Rowland, Tobin E., Norris, Sarah L., Sprague, Thomas R., Lopez, Jorge O., Carder, Mark C., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, and Pitt, M. Louise M. 2021. "No Evidence of rVSV-Ebola Virus Vaccine Replication or Dissemination in the Sand Fly Phlebotomus papatasi ." American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 104, (3) 1093–1095. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0951 .
2021
Motoki, Maysa T., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Conn, Jan E., Ruiz-Lopez, Fredy, and Wilkerson, Richard C. 2021. "Phylogenetic Network of Mitochondrial COI Gene Sequences Distinguishes 10 Taxa Within the Neotropical Albitarsis Group (Diptera: Culicidae), Confirming the Separate Species Status of Anopheles albitarsis H (Diptera: Culicidae) and Revealing a Novel Lineage, Anopheles albitarsis J ." Journal of medical entomology , 58, (2) 599–607. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa211 .
2021
Bourke, Brian P., Justi, Silvia A., Caicedo-Quiroga, Laura, Pecor, David B., Wilkerson, Richard C., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2021. "Phylogenetic analysis of the Neotropical Albitarsis Complex based on mitogenome data ." Parasites & Vectors , 14, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-05090-w .
2021
Wagman, Joseph M., Varela, Kenyssony, Zulliger, Rose, Saifodine, Abuchahama, Muthoni, Rodaly, Magesa, Stephen, Chaccour, Carlos, Gogue, Christelle, Tynuv, Kenzie, Seyoum, Aklilu, Dengela, Dereje, Saute, Francisco, Richardson, Jason H., Fornadel, Christen, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Slutsker, Laurence, Candrinho, Baltazar, and Robertson, Molly. 2021. "Reduced exposure to malaria vectors following indoor residual spraying of pirimiphos-methyl in a high-burden district of rural Mozambique with high ownership of long-lasting insecticidal nets: entomological surveillance results from a cluster-randomized trial ." Malaria Journal , 20, (1) Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03583-8 .
2021
Hassell, James M., Newbold, Tim, Dobson, Andrew P., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Franklinos, Lydia H. V., Zimmerman, Dawn, and Pagenkopp Lohan, Katrina M. 2021. "Towards an ecosystem model of infectious disease ." Nature Ecology & Evolution , https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01454-8 .
2021
Kasap, Ozge Erisoz, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Karakus, Mehmet, Ozbel, Yusuf, and Alten, Bulent. 2019. "Revision of the species composition and distribution of Turkish sand flies using DNA barcodes ." Parasites & Vectors , 12 Article 410. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3669-3 .
2019
Huestis, Diana L., Dao, Adama, Diallo, Moussa, Sanogo, Zana L., Samake, Djibril, Yaro, Alpha S., Ousman, Yossi, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Krishna, Asha, Veru, Laura, Krajacich, Benjamin J., Faiman, Roy, Florio, Jenna, Chapman, Jason W., Reynolds, Don R., Weetman, David, Mitchell, Reed, Donnelly, Martin J., Talamas, Elijah, Chamorro, Lourdes, Strobach, Ehud, and Lehmann, Tovi. 2019. "Windborne long-distance migration of malaria mosquitoes in the Sahel ." Nature , 574 404–408. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1622-4 .
2019
Bennett, Kelly Louise, Kaddumukasa, Martha, Shija, Fortunate, Djouaka, Rousseau, Misinzo, Gerald, Lutwama, Julius, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, and Walton, Catherine. 2018. "Comparative phylogeography of Aedes mosquitoes and the role of past climatic change for evolution within Africa ." Ecology and Evolution , 8, (5) 3019–3036. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3668 .
2018
Polsomboon, Suppaluck, Hoel, David F., Murphy, Jittawadee R., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Motoki, Maysa, Robbins, Richard G., Bautista, Kim, Briceño, Ireneo, Achee, Nicole L., Grieco, John P., Ching, Wei-Mei, and Chao, Chien-Chung. 2017. "Molecular Detection and Identification of Rickettsia Species in Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) Collected From Belize, Central America ." Journal of medical entomology , 54, (6) 1718–1726. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjx141 .
2017
Bennett, Kelly Louise, Shija, Fortunate, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Misinzo, Gerald, Kaddumukasa, Martha, Djouaka, Rousseau, Anyaele, Okorie, Harris, Angela, Irish, Seth, Hlaing, Thaung, Prakash, Anil, Lutwama, Julius, and Walton, Catherine. 2016. "Historical environmental change in Africa drives divergence and admixture of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes: a precursor to successful worldwide colonization? " Molecular ecology , 25, (17) 4337–4354. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13762 .
2016
Gunay, Filiz, Alten, Bulent, Simsek, Fatih, Aldemir, Adnan, and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2015. "Barcoding Turkish Culex mosquitoes to facilitate arbovirus vector incrimination studies reveals hidden diversity and new potential vectors." Acta Tropica , 143 112–120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.10.013 .
2015
Linton, Yvonne-Marie and Wilkerson, Richard C. 2015. "Elevation of Pseudoskusea, Rusticoidus and Protomacleaya to valid subgenera in the mosquito genus Aedes based on taxon naming criteria recently applied to other members of the Tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae) ." Parasites & Vectors , 8, (1) 668. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1247-x .
2015
Villarreal-Treviño, Cuauhtémoc, Vásquez, Gissella M., Lopez-Sifuentes, V., Escobedo-Vargas, Karin, Huayanay-Repetto, Anibal, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Flores-Mendoza, Carmen, Lescano, Andrés G., and Stell, Frederick M. 2015. "Establishment of a free-mating, long-standing and highly productive laboratory colony of Anopheles darlingi from the Peruvian Amazon." Malaria Journal , 14, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0733-0 .
2015
Wilkerson, Richard C., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Fonseca, Dina M., Schultz, Ted R., Price, Dana C., and Strickman, Daniel A. 2015. "Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships ." PloS One , 10, (7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133602 .
2015
Laporta, Gabriel Z., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Wilkerson, Richard C., Bergo, Eduardo S., Nagaki, Sandra S., Sant'Ana, Denise C., and Sallum, Maria A. M. 2015. "Malaria vectors in South America: current and future scenarios." Parasites & Vectors , 8, (1) 426. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1038-4 .
2015
Bennett, Kelly Louise, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Shija, Fortunate, Kaddumukasa, Martha, Djouaka, Rousseau, Misinzo, Gerald, Lutwama, Julius, Huang, Yiau-Min, Mitchell, Luke B., Richards, Miriam, Tossou, Eric, and Walton, Catherine. 2015. "Molecular Differentiation of the African Yellow Fever Vector Aedes bromeliae (Diptera: Culicidae) from Its Sympatric Non-vector Sister Species, Aedes lilii ." PLoS neglected tropical diseases , 9, (12). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004250 .
2015
Foley, Desmond H., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Ruiz-Lopez, J., Conn, Jan E., Sallum, Maria Anice M., Póvoa, Marinete, M., Bergo, Eduardo S., Oliveira, Tatiane M. P., Sucupira, Izis, and Wilkerson, Richard C. 2014. "Geographic distribution, evolution, and disease importance of species within the Neotropical Anopheles albitarsis Group (Diptera, Culicidae)." Journal of Vector Ecology , 39, (1) 168–181. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1948-7134.2014.12084.x .
2014
Zarowiecki, Magdalena, Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Post, Rory J., Bangs, Michael J., Htun, Pe Than, Hlaing, Thaung, Seng, Chang Moh, Baimai, Visut, Ding, Trung Ho, Sochantha, Tho, and Walton, Catherine. 2014. "Repeated landmass reformation limits diversification in the widespread littoral zone mosquito Anopheles sundaicus sensu lato in the Indo-Oriental Region." Molecular Ecology , 23, (10) 2573–2589. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12761 .
2014
Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Pecor, James E., Porter, Charles H., Mitchell, Luke Brett, Garzon-Moreno, Andres, Foley, Desmond H., Pecor, David Brooks, and Wilkerson, Richard C. 2013. "Mosquitoes of eastern Amazonian Ecuador: biodiversity, bionomics and barcodes." Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz , 108 100–U132. https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-0276130440 .
2013
Loaiza, Jose R., Scott, Marilyn E., Bermingham, Eldredge, Sanjur, Oris I., Rovira, Jose R., Dutari, Larissa C., Linton, Yvonne-Marie, Bickersmith, Sara, and Conn, Jan E. 2013. "Novel genetic diversity within Anopheles punctimacula s.l.: Phylogenetic discrepancy between the Barcode cytochrome c oxidase I (COI ) gene and the rDNA second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) ." Acta Tropica , 128, (1) 61–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.06.012 .
2013
Ruiz-Lopez, Freddy, Wilkerson, Richard C., Ponsonby, David J., Herrera, Manuela, Sallum, Maria Anice Mureb, Velez, Ivan, Quiñones, Martha L., Flores-Mendoza, Carmen, Chadee, Dave D., Alarcon, Joubert, Alarcon-Ormasa, Joubert, and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2013. "Systematics of the Oswaldoi Complex (Anopheles, Nyssorhynchus ) in South America ." Parasites & Vectors , 6, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-324 .
2013
Gonzalez, Ranulfo, Carrejo, Nancy, Wilkerson, Richard C., Alarcon, Joubert, Alarcon-Ormasa, Joubert, Ruiz, Fredy, Bhatia, Ravinder, Loaiza, Jose R., and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2010. "Confirmation of Anopheles (Anopheles) Calderoni Wilkerson, 1991 (Diptera: Culicidae) in Colombia and Ecuador through molecular and morphological correlation with topotypic material." Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz , 105, (8) 1001–1009. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02762010000800009 .
2010
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