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• Driskell I, O'Connor RM. Production and Purification of Functional Cryptosporidium Glycoproteins by Heterologous Expression in Toxoplasma gondii. Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2052:87-102. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9748-0_6. PubMed PMID: 31452158.
• Clark RE, Basu S, Lee BW, Crowder DW. Tri-trophic interactions mediate the spread of a vector-borne plant pathogen. Ecology. 2019 Sep 4. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2879. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31482568.
• Dandurand LM, Zasada IA, Wang X, Mimee B, De Jong W, Novy R, Whitworth J, Kuhl JC. Current Status of Potato Cyst Nematodes in North America. Annu Rev Phytopathol. 2019 Aug 25;57:117-133. doi: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-082718-100254. Epub 2019 May 17. PubMed PMID: 31100997.
• Thomas CE, Burton ES, Brunner JL. Environmental Drivers of Questing Activity of Juvenile Black-Legged Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae): Temperature, Desiccation Risk, and Diel Cycles. J Med Entomol. 2019 Aug 2. pii: tjz126. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjz126. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31370063.
• Futse JE, Buami G, Kayang BB, Koku R, Palmer GH, Graça T, Noh SM. Sequence and immunologic conservation of Anaplasma marginale OmpA within strains from Ghana as compared to the predominant OmpA variant. PLoS One. 2019 Jul 10;14(7):e0217661. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217661. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31291256; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6619652.
• Marx HE, Richards M, Johnson GM, Tank DC. Increasing phylogenetic stochasticity at high elevations on summits across a remote North American wilderness. Am J Bot. 2019 Jul;106(7):958-970. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1328. Epub 2019 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 31291472.
• Borowiec ML. Convergent Evolution of the Army Ant Syndrome and Congruence in Big-Data Phylogenetics. Syst Biol. 2019 Jul 1;68(4):642-656. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syy088. PubMed PMID: 30605547.
• Williams JE, Carrothers JM, Lackey KA, Beatty NF, Brooker SL, Peterson HK, Steinkamp KM, York MA, Shafii B, Price WJ, McGuire MA, McGuire MK. Strong Multivariate Relations Exist Among Milk, Oral, and Fecal Microbiomes in Mother-Infant Dyads During the First Six Months Postpartum. J Nutr. 2019 Jun 1;149(6):902-914. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxy299. PubMed PMID: 31063198; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6543206.
• Goodman AG, Rasmussen AL. Editorial: Host-Pathogen Interactions During Arboviral Infections. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2019 Mar 26;9:77. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00077. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 30972308; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6443840.
• Graça T, Ku PS, Silva MG, Turse JE, Hammac GK, Brown WC, Palmer GH, Brayton KA. Segmental Variation in a Duplicated msp2 Pseudogene Generates Anaplasma marginale Antigenic Variants. Infect Immun. 2019 Jan 24;87(2). pii: e00727-18. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00727-18. Print 2019 Feb. PubMed PMID: 30455197; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6346141.
• Lemon A, Silva-Rohwer A, Sagawa J, Vadyvaloo V. Co-infection Assay to Determine Yersinia pestis Competitive Fitness in Fleas. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;2010:153-166. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9541-7_11. PubMed PMID: 31177437.
• Gonzalez AJ, Ijezie EC, Balemba OB, Miura TA. Attenuation of Influenza A Virus Disease Severity by Viral Coinfection in a Mouse Model. J Virol. 2018 Nov 12;92(23). pii: e00881-18. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00881-18. Print 2018 Dec 1. PubMed PMID: 30232180; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6232468.
• Shaw DK, Tate AT, Schneider DS, Levashina EA, Kagan JC, Pal U, Fikrig E, Pedra JHF. Vector Immunity and Evolutionary Ecology: The Harmonious Dissonance. Trends Immunol. 2018 Nov;39(11):862-873. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2018.09.003. Epub 2018 Oct 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 30301592; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6218297.
• Kaur N, Cooper WR, Duringer JM, Badillo-Vargas IE, Esparza-Díaz G, Rashed A, Horton DR. Survival and development of potato psyllid (Hemiptera: Triozidae) on Convolvulaceae: Effects of a plant-fungus symbiosis (Periglandula). PLoS One. 2018 Sep 11;13(9):e0201506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201506. eCollection 2018.  PubMed PMID: 30204748; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6133269.
• Schroeder BK, Schneider WL, Luster DG, Sechler A, Murray TD. Rathayibacter agropyri (non O'Gara 1916) comb. nov., nom. rev., isolated from western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2018 May;68(5):1519-1525. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002708. Epub 2018 Mar 20. PubMed PMID: 29557775.
• Eigenbrode SD, Bosque-Pérez NA, Davis TS. Insect-Borne Plant Pathogens and Their Vectors: Ecology, Evolution, and Complex Interactions. Annu Rev Entomol. 2018 Jan 7;63:169-191. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043119. Epub 2017 Oct 2. Review. PubMed PMID: 28968147.
• Oliveira-Hofman, C., F. Kaplan, G. Stevens, E.E. Lewis, S. Wu, H.T. Alborn, A. Perret-Gentil,  and D.I. Shapiro-Ilan. 2019. Pheromone extracts act as boosters for entomopathogenic nematode efficacy. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 164: 38-42
• Hun LV, Luckhart S, Riehle MA. Increased Akt signaling in the fat body of Anopheles stephensi extends lifespan and increases lifetime fecundity through modulation of insulin-like peptides. J Insect Physiol. 2019 Aug 22;118:103932. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.103932. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31445957.

• Driskell I, O'Connor RM. Production and Purification of Functional Cryptosporidium Glycoproteins by Heterologous Expression in Toxoplasma gondii. Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2052:87-102. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9748-0_6. PubMed PMID: 31452158.
• Clark RE, Basu S, Lee BW, Crowder DW. Tri-trophic interactions mediate the spread of a vector-borne plant pathogen. Ecology. 2019 Sep 4. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2879. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31482568.
• Dandurand LM, Zasada IA, Wang X, Mimee B, De Jong W, Novy R, Whitworth J, Kuhl JC. Current Status of Potato Cyst Nematodes in North America. Annu Rev Phytopathol. 2019 Aug 25;57:117-133. doi: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-082718-100254. Epub 2019 May 17. PubMed PMID: 31100997.
• Thomas CE, Burton ES, Brunner JL. Environmental Drivers of Questing Activity of Juvenile Black-Legged Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae): Temperature, Desiccation Risk, and Diel Cycles. J Med Entomol. 2019 Aug 2. pii: tjz126. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjz126. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31370063.
• Futse JE, Buami G, Kayang BB, Koku R, Palmer GH, Graça T, Noh SM. Sequence and immunologic conservation of Anaplasma marginale OmpA within strains from Ghana as compared to the predominant OmpA variant. PLoS One. 2019 Jul 10;14(7):e0217661. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217661. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31291256; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6619652.
• Marx HE, Richards M, Johnson GM, Tank DC. Increasing phylogenetic stochasticity at high elevations on summits across a remote North American wilderness. Am J Bot. 2019 Jul;106(7):958-970. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1328. Epub 2019 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 31291472.
• Borowiec ML. Convergent Evolution of the Army Ant Syndrome and Congruence in Big-Data Phylogenetics. Syst Biol. 2019 Jul 1;68(4):642-656. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syy088. PubMed PMID: 30605547.
• Williams JE, Carrothers JM, Lackey KA, Beatty NF, Brooker SL, Peterson HK, Steinkamp KM, York MA, Shafii B, Price WJ, McGuire MA, McGuire MK. Strong Multivariate Relations Exist Among Milk, Oral, and Fecal Microbiomes in Mother-Infant Dyads During the First Six Months Postpartum. J Nutr. 2019 Jun 1;149(6):902-914. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxy299. PubMed PMID: 31063198; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6543206.
• Goodman AG, Rasmussen AL. Editorial: Host-Pathogen Interactions During Arboviral Infections. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2019 Mar 26;9:77. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00077. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 30972308; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6443840.
• Graça T, Ku PS, Silva MG, Turse JE, Hammac GK, Brown WC, Palmer GH, Brayton KA. Segmental Variation in a Duplicated msp2 Pseudogene Generates Anaplasma marginale Antigenic Variants. Infect Immun. 2019 Jan 24;87(2). pii: e00727-18. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00727-18. Print 2019 Feb. PubMed PMID: 30455197; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6346141.
• Lemon A, Silva-Rohwer A, Sagawa J, Vadyvaloo V. Co-infection Assay to Determine Yersinia pestis Competitive Fitness in Fleas. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;2010:153-166. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9541-7_11. PubMed PMID: 31177437.
• Gonzalez AJ, Ijezie EC, Balemba OB, Miura TA. Attenuation of Influenza A Virus Disease Severity by Viral Coinfection in a Mouse Model. J Virol. 2018 Nov 12;92(23). pii: e00881-18. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00881-18. Print 2018 Dec 1. PubMed PMID: 30232180; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6232468.
• Shaw DK, Tate AT, Schneider DS, Levashina EA, Kagan JC, Pal U, Fikrig E, Pedra JHF. Vector Immunity and Evolutionary Ecology: The Harmonious Dissonance. Trends Immunol. 2018 Nov;39(11):862-873. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2018.09.003. Epub 2018 Oct 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 30301592; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6218297.
• Kaur N, Cooper WR, Duringer JM, Badillo-Vargas IE, Esparza-Díaz G, Rashed A, Horton DR. Survival and development of potato psyllid (Hemiptera: Triozidae) on Convolvulaceae: Effects of a plant-fungus symbiosis (Periglandula). PLoS One. 2018 Sep 11;13(9):e0201506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201506. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 30204748; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6133269.
• Schroeder BK, Schneider WL, Luster DG, Sechler A, Murray TD. Rathayibacter agropyri (non O'Gara 1916) comb. nov., nom. rev., isolated from western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2018 May;68(5):1519-1525. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002708. Epub 2018 Mar 20. PubMed PMID: 29557775.
• Eigenbrode SD, Bosque-Pérez NA, Davis TS. Insect-Borne Plant Pathogens and Their Vectors: Ecology, Evolution, and Complex Interactions. Annu Rev Entomol. 2018 Jan 7;63:169-191. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043119. Epub 2017 Oct 2. Review. PubMed PMID: 28968147.
• Oliveira-Hofman, C., F. Kaplan, G. Stevens, E.E. Lewis, S. Wu, H.T. Alborn, A. Perret-Gentil,  and D.I. Shapiro-Ilan. 2019. Pheromone extracts act as boosters for entomopathogenic nematode efficacy. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 164: 38-42
• Hun LV, Luckhart S, Riehle MA. Increased Akt signaling in the fat body of Anopheles stephensi extends lifespan and increases lifetime fecundity through modulation of insulin-like peptides. J Insect Physiol. 2019 Aug 22;118:103932. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.103932. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31445957.

By CHHE Members, May 1-30, 2019

• John Abatzoglou — Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima
• John Abatzoglou — Human-environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires
• Marek Borowiec — Compositional heterogeneity and outgroup choice influence the internal phylogeny of the ants
• Nila Bosque-Perez — Modeling approach influences dynamics of a vector-borne pathogen system
• Jesse Brunner — Evaluating the within-host dynamics of Ranavirus infection with mechanistic disease models and experimental data
• Alan Caplan and Louise-Marie Dandurand — The potato cyst nematode effector RHA1B is a ubiquitin ligase and uses two distinct mechanisms to suppress plant immune signaling
• David Crowder — Effects of restricting movement between root and canopy populations of woolly apple aphid
• David Crowder — Effects of life history and ecology on virus evolutionary potential
• Alan Goodman — Host-pathogen interactions during arboviral infections (editorial)
• Christopher Hamilton — Spiders did not repeatedly gain, but repeatedly lost, foraging webs
• Scott Harper — Development of real-time RT-PCR assays for two viruses infecting pome fruit
• Sam Hunter — Regeneration associated transcriptional signature of retinal microglia and macrophages
• Alex Karasev — A new strain of bean common mosaic virus from lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus): biological and molecular characterization
• Alex Karasev — Associations of the potato psyllid and Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum in Idaho with the noncrop host plants Bittersweet Nightshade and Field Bindweed
• Donald Knowles — A recombinant bovine herpesvirus-4 vectored vaccine delivered via intranasal nebulization elicits viral neutralizing antibody titers in cattle
• Eric Lofgren — Modeling operational quality metrics and costs of long-acting antibiotics for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infection treatment in the emergency department
• Mark McGuire — Strong multivariate relations exist among milk, oral, and fecal microbiomes in mother-infant dyads during the first six months postpartum
• Mark McGuire — What's normal? Microbiomes in human milk and infant feces are related to each other but vary geographically: The INSPIRE Study
• Mark McGuire — Household composition and the infant fecal microbiome: The INSPIRE study
• Hanu Pappu — A novel fungal effector from Puccinia graminis suppressing RNA silencing and plant defense responses
• Carlos Suarez — Transgenic Babesia bovis lacking 6-Cys sexual stage genes as the foundation for non-transmissible live vaccines against bovine babesiosis
• Kiwamu Tanaka — Extracellular ATP shapes a defense-related transcriptome both independently and long with other defense signaling pathways
• David Tank — Phylogeny of the Australian Solanum dioicum group using seven nuclear genes, with consideration of Symon's fruit and seed dispersal hypotheses
• Massaro Ueti — Detection and genotypic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii DNA within the milk of Mongolian livestock 

By CHHE Members, April 1-30, 2019

• John Abatzoglou — Human-environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires
• Marek Borowiec — Compositional heterogeneity and outgroup choice influence the internal phylogeny of the ants
• Nila Bosque-Perez — Modeling approach influences dynamics of a vector-borne pathogen system
• Kelly Brayton — A novel Babesia sp. associated with clinical signs of babesiosis in domestic cats in South Africa
• Kelly Brayton — Anaplasma ovis as the suspected cause of mortality in a neonatal elk calf
• David Crowder — Effects of life history and ecology on virus evolutionary potential
• Scott Harper — Development of real-time RT-PCR assays for two viruses infecting pome fruit
• Sam Hunter — Regeneration associated transcriptional signature of retinal microglia and macrophages
• Alex Karasev — A novel genetic variant of Grapevine leafroll-associated virus-3 (GLRaV-3) from Idaho grapevines
• Donald Knowles — Gene gun DNA immunization of cattle induces humoral and CD4 T-cell-mediated immune responses against the Theileria parva polymorphic immunodominant molecule
• Donald Knowles — Evolution and diversity of the EMA families of the divergent equid parasites,Theileria equi and T. haneyi
• Eric Lofgren — Modeling operational quality metrics and costs of long-acting antibiotics for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infection treatment in the emergency department
• Carlos Suarez — Transgenic Babesia bovis lacking 6-Cys sexual stage genes as the foundation for non-transmissible live vaccines against bovine babesiosis
• Kiwamu Tanaka — Extracellular ATP shapes a defense-related transcriptome both independently and long with other defense signaling pathways
• David Tank — Extensive alloploidy in the neotropical genus Lachemilla (Rosaceae) revealed by PCR-based target enrichment of the nuclear ribosomal DNA cistron and plastid phylogenomics
• Andres Vasdekis — Eliciting the impacts of cellular noise on metabolic trade-offs by quantitative mass imaging 

By CHHE Members, March 1-31, 2019

• Marek Borowiec — Compositional heterogeneity and outgroup choice influence the internal phylogeny of the ants
• Marek Borowiec — Convergent evolution of the army ant syndrome and congruence in big-data phylogenetics
• Kelly Brayton — Anaplasma ovis as the suspected cause of mortality in a neonatal elk calf
• Kelly Brayton — Using an optimal set of features with a machine learning-based approach to predict effector proteins for Legionella pneumophila
• Kelly Brayton — Segmental variation in a duplicated msp2 pseudogene generates Anaplasma marginale antigenic variants
• Kelly Brayton — The Anaplasma ovis genome reveals a high proportion of pseudogenes
• Omar Cornejo — Insights from transcriptome profiling on the no-photosynthetic and stomatal signaling response of maize carbonic anhydrase mutants to low CO₂
• Scott Harper —Development of real-time RT-PCR assays for two viruses infecting pome fruit
• Sam Hunter — A rapid method of sequencing double-stranded RNAs purified from yeasts and the identification of a potent K-1 killer toxin isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Alex Karasev — A novel genetic variant of grapevine leafroll-associated virus-3 (GLRaV-3) from Idaho grapevines
• Alex Karasev — Identification and molecular characterization of recombinant potato virus Y (PVY) in potato from South Korea, PVY^NTN strain
• Donald Knowles — Gene gun DNA immunization of cattle induces humoral and CD4 T-cell-mediated immune responses against the Theileria parva polymorphic immunodominant molecule
• Donald Knowles — Evolution and diversity of the EMA families of the divergent equid parasites,Theileria equi and em>T. haneyi
• Ed Lewis — Study on host-seeking behavior and chemotaxis of entomopathogenic nematodes using Pluronic F-127 gel
• Tanya Miura — A two-stage experimental design for dilution assays
• Hanu Pappu — A novel fungal effector from Puccinia graminis suppressing RNA silencing and plant defense responses
• Hanu Pappu — Identification and localization of Tospovirus genus-wide conserved residues in 3D models of the nucleocapsid and the silencing suppressor proteins
• Dana Shaw — p47 licenses activation of the immune deficiency pathway in the tick Ixodes scapularis
• Carlos Suarez — Transgenic em>Babesia bovis lacking 6-Cys sexual stage genes as the foundation for non-transmissible live vaccines against bovine babesiosis
• Carlos Suarez — Unravelling the cellular and molecular pathogenesis of bovine babesiosis; is the sky the limit?
• Carlos Suarez, Glen Scoles and Massaro Ueti — Silencing expression of the Rhipicephalus microplus vitellogenin receptor gene blocks Babesia bovis transmission and interferes with oocyte maturation
• Andres Vasdekis — Eliciting the impacts of cellular noise on metabolic trade-offs by quantitative mass imaging 

By CHHE Members, Feb. 1-28, 2019

• Marek Borowiec — Convergent evolution of the army ant syndrome and congruence in big-data phylogenetics
• Marek Borowiec — Anchored phylogenomics unravels the evolution of spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) and reveals discordance between nucleotides and amino acids
• Kelly Brayton — Segmental variation in a duplicated msp2 pseudogene generates Anaplasma marginale antigenic variants
• Kelly Brayton — The Anaplasma ovis genome reveals a high proportion of pseudogenes
• Chris Hamilton — Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism
• Scott Harper — Development of real-time RT-PCR assays for two viruses infecting pome fruit
• Scott Harper — Bottlenecks and complementation in the aphid transmission of citrus tristeza virus populations
• Sam Hunter — A rapid method of sequencing double-stranded RNAs purified from yeasts and the identification of a potent K-1 killer toxin isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Alex Karasev — Identification and molecular characterization of recombinant potato virus Y (PVY) in potato from South Korea, PVY^NTN strain
• Donald Knowles — Evolution and diversity of the EMA families of the divergent equid parasites,Theileria equi and T. haneyi
• Kathleen Lee — Impacts of pathogen introduction risk on importer behavior and gains from trade in the livestock industry
• Ed Lewis — Study on host-seeking behavior and chemotaxis of entomopathogenic nematodes using Pluronic F-127 gel
• Eric Lofgren — Simulations for designing and interpreting intervention trials in infectious diseases
• Tanya Miura — A two-stage experimental design for dilution assays
• Hanu Pappu — A novel fungal effector from Puccinia graminis suppressing RNA silencing and plant defense responses
• Hanu Pappu — Identification and localization of Tospovirus genus-wide conserved residues in 3D models of the nucleocapsid and the silencing suppressor proteins
• Carlos Suarez — Transgenic Babesia bovis lacking 6-Cys sexual stage genes as the foundation for non-transmissible live vaccines against bovine babesiosis
• Carlos Suarez — Unravelling the cellular and molecular pathogenesis of bovine babesiosis; is the sky the limit?
• Carlos Suarez, Glen Scoles and Massaro Ueti — Silencing expression of the Rhipicephalus microplus vitellogenin receptor gene blocks Babesia bovis transmission and interferes with oocyte maturation
• Dave Tank — Predicting plant conservation priorities on a global scale 

By CHHE Members, Jan. 1-31, 2019

• Marek Borowiec — Convergent evolution of the army ant syndrome and congruence in big-data phylogenetics
• Marek Borowiec — Anchored phylogenomics unravels the evolution of spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) and reveals discordance between nucleotides and amino acids
• Kelly Brayton — A nearest-neighbors network model for sequence data reveals new insight into genotype distribution of a pathogen
• Kelly Brayton — Segmental variation in a duplicated msp2 pseudogene generates Anaplasma marginale antigenic variants
• Louise Marie Dandurand — Resistance of potato breeding clones and cultivars to three species of potato cyst nematode
• Chris Hamilton — Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism
• Scott Harper — Development of real-time RT-PCR assays for two viruses infecting pome fruit
• Alex Karasev — Identification and Molecular Characterization of Recombinant Potato Virus Y (PVY) in Potato from South Korea, PVY^NTN Strain
• Alex Karasev — Occurrence of potato virus Y recombinants, strain PVY(NTN), infecting tobacco in Pakistan
• Donald Knowles — Evolution and diversity of the EMA families of the divergent equid parasites,Theileria equi and T. haneyi
• Luc LeBlanc —Description of a new species of Dacus from Sri Lanka, and new country distribution records (Diptera, Tephritidae, Dacinae)
• Shirley Luckhart — Inhibition of JNK signaling in the Asian malaria vector Anopholes stephensi extends longevity and improves resistance to Plasmodium falciparum infection
• Tanya Miura — Attenuation of influenza A virus disease severity by viral co-infection in a mouse model
• Hanu Pappu — Identification and localization of Tospovirus genus-wide conserved residues in 3D models of the nucleocapsid and the silencing suppressor proteins
• Carlos Suarez, Glen Scoles and Massaro Ueti — Silencing expression of the Rhipicephalus microplus vitellogenin receptor gene blocks Babesia bovis transmission and interferes with oocyte maturation
• Dave Tank — Predicting plant conservation priorities on a global scale 

By CHHE Members, Dec. 1-31, 2018

• John Abatzoglou — Global patterns of interannual climate-fire relationships
• John Abatzoglou —Fire refugia: what are they, and why do they matter for global change?
• Marek Borowiec —Anchored phylogenomics unravels the evolution of spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) and reveals discordance between nucleotides and amino acids
• Kelly Brayton — Segmental variation in a duplicated msp2 pseudogene generates Anaplasma marginale antigenic variants
• Jesse Brunner — Seasonal dynamics and potential drivers of ranavirus epidemics in wood frog populations
• David Crowder — Genotype-specific fitness cost of resistance to Bt toxin Cry1Ac in pink bollworm
• Louise Marie Dandurand — Resistance of potato breeding clones and cultivars to three species of potato cyst nematode
• Alan Goodman — Astrocyte expression of the Drosophila TNF-alpha homologue, Eiger, regulates sleep in flies
• Alex Karasev — Occurrence of potato virus Y recombinants, strain PVY(NTN), infecting tobacco in Pakistan
• Alex Karasev — Identification and molecular characterization of recombinant potato virus Y (PVY) in Potato from South Korea PVY (NTN) strain
• Luc LeBlanc — Tracking the origins of fly invasions; using mitochondrial haplotype diversity to identify potential source populations in two genetically intertwined fruit fly species (Bactrocera carambolae and Bactrocera dorsalis [Diptera: Tephritidae])
• Luc LeBlanc — Description of a new species of Dacus from Sri Lanka, and new country distribution records (Diptera, Tephritidae, Dacinae)
• Shirley Luckhart — Inhibition of JNK signaling in the Asian malaria vector Anopholes stephensi extends longevity and improves resistance to Plasmodium falciparum infection
• Tanya Miura — Attenuation of influenza A virus disease severity by viral co-infection in a mouse model
• Susan Noh — Global dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in poultry between 2005 and 2016 - focus on distance and rate of spread
• Robbie O-Connor and Masaro Ueti — Up-regulated expression of spherical body protein 2 truncated copy Babesia bovis is associated with reduced cytoadhesion to vascular endothelial cells
• Dave Tank — Predicting plant conservation priorities on a global scale 

By CHHE Members, Nov. 1-30, 2018

• John Abatzoglou — Global patterns of interannual climate-fire relationships
• John Abatzoglou — Fire refugia: what are they, and why do they matter for global change?
• Jesse Brunner — Seasonal dynamics and potential drivers of ranavirus epidemics in wood frog populations
• Omar Cornejo — Population genomic analyses of the chocolate tree,Theobroma cacao L., provide insights into its domestication process
• Omar Cornejo — Ancestry informative alleles captured with reduced representation library sequencing in Theobroma cacao
• Louise Marie Dandurand — Resistance of potato breeding clones and cultivars to three species of potato cyst nematode
• Alex Karasev — Occurrence of potato virus Y recombinants, strain PVY(NTN), infecting tobacco in Pakistan
• Luc LeBlanc — Tracking the origins of fly invasions; using mitochondrial haplotype diversity to identify potential source populations in two genetically intertwined fruit fly species (Bactrocera carambolae and Bactrocera dorsalis [Diptera: Tephritidae])
• Tanya Miura — Attenuation of influenza A virus disease severity by viral co-infection in a mouse model
• Arash Rashed — Assessments of temporal variations in haplotypes of 'Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum' and its vector, the potato psyllid, in potato fields and native vegetation 

By CHHE Members, Oct. 1-31, 2018

• John Abatzoglou — Fire refugia: what are they, and why do they matter for global change?
• Omar Cornejo — Genomic insights into host adaptation between the wheat stripe rust pathogen (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) and the barley stripe rust pathogen (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. hordei)
• Ed Lewis — Effects of long-term continuous cropping on soil nematode community and soil condition associated with replant problem in strawberry habitat
• Tanya Miura — Complete genome sequence of Agrobacterium pusense VsBac-Y9, a bacterial symbiont
• Arash Rashed — Soil type mediates the effectiveness of biological control against Limonius californicus (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
• Arash Rashed — Survival and development of potato psyllid (Hemiptera: Triozidae) on Convolvulaceae: Effects of a plant-fungus symbiosis Periglandula
• Massaro Ueti — Identification of a putative methyltransferase gene of Babesia bigemina as a novel molecular biomarker uniquely expressed in parasite tick stages 

By CHHE Members, Sept. 1-30, 2018

• John Abatzoglou — Human–environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires
• Kelly Brayton — Evidence confirming the phylogenetic position of Anaplasma centrale (ex Theiler 1911) Ristic and Kreier 1984
• Louise-Marie Dandurand and Allan Caplan — Assessment of an organ-specific transcriptome of the nematode trap-crop,Solanum sisymbriifolium
• Alex Karasev — Recessive resistance to bean common mosaic virus affects long-distance movement of the virus
• Don Knowles, Massaro and Glen Scoles —Discovery of a novel species,Theileria haneyi, n. sp., infective to equids, highlights exceptional genomic diversity within the genus Theileria: implications for apicomplexan parasite surveillance
• Tanya Miura — Complete genome sequence of Agrobacterium pusense VsBac-Y9, a bacterial symbiont
• Brenda Schroeder — Evolution of the U.S. biological select agent Rathayibacter toxicus
• Arash Rashed — Soil type mediates the effectiveness of biological control against Limonius californicus (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
• Massaro Ueti and Glen Scoles — Discovery of a novel species, Theileria haneyi n. sp., infective to equids 

By CHHE Members, July 26-Aug. 31, 2018

• John Abatzoglou — Natural and managed watersheds show similar responses to recent climate change
• Kelly Brayton — Evidence confirming the phylogenetic position of Anaplasma centrale (ex Theiler 1911) Ristic and Kreier 1984
• Dave Crowder — Reciprocal plant-mediated interactions between a virus and a non-vector herbivore
• Sanford Eigenbrode and Hannu Pappu — Deriving economic models for pea aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
• Paul Gessler — Building an open science framework to model soil organic carbon
• Alex Karasev — Recessive resistance to bean common mosaic virus affects long-distance movement of the virus
• Don Knowles — Evaluation of glycoprotein Ov8 as a potential antigen for OvHV-2-specific diagnostic assay
• Tanya Miura — Complete genome sequence of Agrobacterium pusense VsBac-Y9, a bacterial symbiont
• Robbie O'Connor — Modelling Cryptosporidium infection in human small intestinal and lung organoids
• Cassandra Olds and Shirley Luckhart — Abscisic acid: new perspectives on an ancient universal stress signaling molecule
• Cassandra Olds and Glen Scoles — Rhipicephalus ticks transmit Theileria from persistently infected cattle
• Massaro Ueti and Glen Scoles — Discovery of a novel species, Theileria haneyi n. sp., infective to equids 

By CHHE Members, June 13-July 25, 2018

• Sanford Eigenbrode — Dual guild herbivory disrupts predator-prey interactions in the field
• Ed Lewis — Methods to control root-knot nematodes in greenhouse tomato systems
• Brenda Schroeder — Afrinia sporoboliae (Nematoda) associated with seed galls from Idaho: phylogenetic relationships and population structure - Cover article
• Shirley Luckhart — Elevated plasma abscisic acid associated with asymptomatic falciparum malaria
• Cassandra Olds and Glen Scoles — Rhipicephalus ticks transmit Theileria from persistently infected cattle
• Louise-Marie Dandurand and Allan Caplan — Assessment of an organ-specific de novo transcriptome of Solanum sisymbriifolium
• Mark McGuire —Social networks, cooperative breeding, and the human milk microbiome