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| Dr. Carl Lowenberger, Associate Professor
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Entomology,
parasitology, insect parasite interactions, disease epidemiology |
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Selected Publications
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Barón, O.L., R.J. Ursic-Bedoya, C.
Lowenberger, and C.B. Ocampo. 2010. Differential Gene Expression from Midguts
of Refractory and Susceptible lines of Aedes aegypti infected with
Dengue-2 virus. J. Insect Science Vol 10 Article 46.
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Waliwitiya, R., C. P. Belton, R. Nicholson, and C.
Lowenberger, 2009. Effects of the essential oil
constituent thymol and other neuroactive chemicals on flight motor activity and
wing beat frequency in the blowfly Phaenicia
sericata. Pest Management Science
65: 241–248.
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2009. Cloning and characterization of Dorsal homologues in hemipteran Rhodnius prolixus. Insect Molecular
Biology 18: 681–689. | | | |
Cooper, D.M., D. Granville, and C. Lowenberger. 2009. The Insect
Caspases. Apoptosis 14: 247–256.
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Murray and C. Lowenberger. 2009. Activity of a hybrid antimicrobial peptide
combining functional domains from insect cecropins. Can. J. Microbiol. 55: 520-528. | | | |
Ericsson, J., A. F. Janmaat, C. Lowenberger, and J.H. Myers. 2009. Is
decreased generalized immunity a cost of Btk resistance in cabbage loopers
Trichoplusia ni (Hubner)? J. Invert.
Pathol. 100: 61–67.
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Waliwitiya, R., C. Kennedy, and C. Lowenberger, 2009. Larvicidal and
ovipositional altering activity of monoterpenoids, trans anithole, and rosemary
oil to the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). Pest Management Science : 241–248.
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Cooper, D., C. Chamberlain, and C. Lowenberger. 2009. Aedes FADD: A novel death domain
containing protein required for antibacterial immunity in the yellow fever
mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39: 47–54
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Leighton, B., B.D. Roitberg, P. Belton, and C. Lowenberger. 2008. The Use of Mosquito Blood Meals as Diagnostic Tools for Detecting and Monitoring Infectious Disease in Wildlife. Journal of Medical Entomology 45: 470-475. |
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Lardeux, F., R. Tejerina, C. Aliaga, R. Ursic-Bedoya, C. Lowenberger, and T. Chavez. 2008. Semi-nested
multiplex PCR for identification of malaria parasites in wild-caught
mosquitoes: First direct evidence of Plasmodium vivax transmission by
Anopheles pseudopunctipennis in Bolivia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 102: 485—492. |
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Ursic, R., H. Nazzari, O. Triana, M. Wolff, & C. Lowenberger. 2008. Identification and characterization of two novel lysozymes from Rhodnius prolixus, a vector of Chagas disease. J. Insect Physiology 54: 593–603. |
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Cooper, D.M., E.P. Thi, C.M. Chamberlain, F. Pio, and C. Lowenberger. 2007. Aedes Dronc: a novel ecdysone inducible caspase in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Molecular Biology. 16: 563-572. |
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Cooper D.M., F. Pio, E.P. Thi, D. Theilmann, and C. Lowenberger. 2007. Characterization of Aedes Dredd: A novel initiator caspase from the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37: 559–569. |
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Ursic-Bedoya, R.J. and C. Lowenberger. 2007. Rhodnius
prolixus: identification of immune related genes up regulated in
response to pathogens and parasites using suppressive subtractive
hybridization. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 31: 109-120. |
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Reid, M.J., R. Ursic, D.Cooper, H. Nazzari, M. Griffiths, R.Garriga, B.M. Galdikas, M.Skinner and C. Lowenberger. 2006. Cross
Species Transmission of Human and Macaque Plasmodium sp. to Wild-Born
Ex-Captive Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12: 1902-1908. |
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Boulanger,
N., P. Bulet, and C. Lowenberger.
2006. Antimicrobial
peptides in the interactions between insects and flagellate
parasites. Trends in Parasitology 22: 262-268 |
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Ursic, R.J.,
Mitzey, A.M.
Obraztsova, M. and C. Lowenberger. 2005. Molecular cloning and
transcriptional activation of lysozyme-encoding cDNAs in the mosquito Aedes
aegypti. Insect Mol. Biol. 14:89-94. |
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Boulanger, N., C.
Lowenberger, P. Volf, R. Ursic, L. Sigutova, L. Sabatier, M. Svobodova,
S. M. Beverley, G. Späth, R. Brun, B. Pesson and P. Bulet 2004. Characterization of a
Defensin from the Sand Fly Phlebotomus duboscqi Induced by Challenge
with Bacteria or the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania major. Infection
and Immunity 72:7140-7146 |
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Bartholomay, L.C., J.F.
Fuchs, L.L. Cheng, E.T. Beck, J. Vizioli, C. Lowenberger, and B.M.
Christensen. 2004. Reassessing
the role of defensin in the innate immune response of the mosquito Aedes
aegypti. Insect Mol. Biol. 13: 125-132 |
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Lopez, L., R.
Ursic, M. Wolff, and C. Lowenberger. 2003. Identification of a member
of the defensin family of insect immune peptides from Rhodnius
prolixus, the vector of Chagas disease. Insect Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology 33: 439-447. |
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Cheng, L.L., Beaty, L.C.,
Higgs, S., Lowenberger, C., Olson, K., Beaty, B., and Christensen, B.M.
2001. Use of a sindbis
viral expression system to express an endogenous immune peptide,
defensin, in Aedes aegypti. J. Insect Science. http://www.insectscience.org/1.10/ |
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Lowenberger, C.A. 2001. The innate immune
response of Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology. 31: 219-229. |
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Ferdig, M.T., A. Taft, C.T.
Smartt, C.A. Lowenberger, J. Li, J. Zhang, and B.M. Christensen. 2000. Aedes aegypti
dopa-decarboxylase: gene structure and regulation. Insect Mol.
Biol. 9: 231-239. |
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Vizioli, J., P. Bulet, M.
Charlet, C.A. Lowenberger, C. Bass, H-M. Muller, G. Dimopoulos, J.A.
Hoffmann, F.C. Kafatos, and A. Richman. 2000. Cloning and analysis of cecropin
gene from the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae.
Insect Mol. Biol. 9: 75-84. |
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Lowenberger, C.A., M.
Charlet, J. Vizioli, S. Kamal, A. Richman, B.M. Christensen, and P.
Bulet. 1999. Structural
characterization, cDNA isolation, temporal expression, and activity
spectrum of a member of the cecropin family from the mosquito vector, Aedes
aegypti. Journal of Biological Chemistry 274: 20092-20097. |
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Lowenberger, C.A., C.T.
Smartt, P. Bulet, M.T. Ferdig, D.W. Severson, J.A. Hoffmann, and B.M.
Christensen. 1999. Insect
immunity: Molecular cloning, expression, and characterization of cDNAs
and genomic DNA encoding three isoforms of insect defensis in Aedes
aegypti. Insect Mol. Biol. 8: 107-118. |
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Lowenberger, C.A., S.
Kamal, J. Chiles, S. Paskewitz, P. Bulet, J.A. Hoffmann, and B.M.
Christensen. 1999.
Mosquito-Plasmodium interactions in response to immune
activation of the vector. Exp. Parasitol. 91: 59-69. |
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| Book Chapters |
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Lowenberger, C.A. Form,
Function, and Phylogenetic Relationships of Mosquito Immune Peptides.
Pp 113-129 in Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Vertebrate Immune
System. Eds. Beck, G., Sugumaran, M., and Cooper, R. Kluwer
Academic. 2001. |
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