Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications (last 4 years) 

Bhowmick S, Fritz ML, and Smith R. (2024) Host-feeding preferences and temperature shape the dynamics of West Nile virus: a mathematical model to predict the impacts of vector-host interactions and vector management on R0. Acta Tropica 258: 107346. 

Bell KL, Noreuil A, Molloy EK, and Fritz ML. (2024) Genetic and behavioral differences between above and below ground Culex pipiens bioforms. Heredity 132(5): 221-231. 

Naumenko AN, and Fritz ML. (2024) RNAi-mediated silencing of laccase 2 in Culex pipiens pupae via dehydration and soaking results in multiple defects in cuticular development. Insects 15(3): 193. 

Pezzini D, Taylor KL, Reisig DD, and Fritz ML (2024) Cross-pollination in seed blended refuge and selection for Vip3A resistance in a lepidopteran pest as detected by genomic monitoring.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(13): e2319838121. 

Ryazansky SS, Chen C, Potters M, Naumenko AN, Lukyanchikova V, Masri R, Brusentsov II, Karagodin DA, Yurchenko AA, Dos Anjos VL, Haba Y, Rose NH, Hoffman J, Guo R, Menna T, Kelley M, Ferrill E, Schultz KE, Qi Y, Sharma A, Deschamps S, Llaca V, Mao C, Murphy TD, Baricheva EM, Emrich S, Fritz ML, Benoit JB, Sharakhov IV, McBride CS, Tu Z, Sharakhova M (2024) The chromosome-scale genome assembly for the West Nile vector Culex quinquefasciatus uncovers patterns of genome evolution in mosquitoes. BMC Biology 2:16. 

Arsenault-Benoit A, and Fritz ML (2023) Spatiotemporal organization of cryptic North American Culex species along an urbanization gradient. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 4(4): e12282. 

Uelmen Jr. JA, Lamcyzk B, Irwin P, Bartlett D, Stone C, Mackay A, Arsenault-Benoit A, Ryan SJ, Mutebi J, Hamer GL, Fritz ML, and Smith R (2023) Human biting mosquitoes and implications for WNV transmission. Parasites and Vectors 16:2.  

Arich S, Haba Y, Assaid N, Fritz ML, McBride CS, Weill M, Taki H, Sarih M, and Labbé P (2022) No association between habitat, autogeny, and genetics in Moroccan Culex pipiens populations. Parasites and Vectors 15: 405.  

Guo R, Papanicolaou A, and Fritz ML (2022) Validation of reference-assisted assembly using existing and novel Heliothine genomes.  Genomics 114(5): 110441. 

Siperstein A, Marzec S, Fritz ML, Holzapfel C, Bradshaw W, Armbruster P, and M Meuti (2022) Conserved molecular pathways underlying biting in two divergent mosquito genera.  Evolutionary Applications 15(5):878-890. doi:10.1111/eva.13379 

Fritz ML (2022) Utility and challenges of using whole genome resequencing for insect and weed resistance management. Evolutionary Applications 15(10): 1505-1520.  

Taylor K, Hamby KA, DeYonke AM, Gould F, and Fritz ML (2021) Genome evolution in an agricultural pest following adoption of transgenic crops. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  doi: 10.1073/pnas.2020853118 

Arsenault-Benoit A, Green A, and Fritz ML (2021) Paved Paradise: Below ground parking structures contribute to growth of urban mosquito populations in Washington, D.C. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 37(4): 291–295. 

Cannon MV, Bogale HN, Bhalerao D, Keita K, Camara D, Barry Y, Keita M, Coulibaly D, Kone AK, Doumbo OK, Thera MA, Plowe CV, Travassos MA, Irish SR, Yeroshefsky J, Dorothy J, Prendergast B, St. Laurent B, Fritz ML, and Serre D (2021) High-throughput Detection of Eukaryotic Parasites and Arboviruses in Mosquitoes. Biology Open 10(7): bio058855. doi: 10.1242/bio.058855 

Noreuil A, and Fritz ML (2021) Differential gene expression in the heads of behaviorally divergent Culex pipiens mosquitoes. Insects 12(3): 271. 

Yurchenko AA, Masri RA, Khrabrova NV, Sibataev AK, Fritz ML, and Sharakhova MV (2020) Genomic differentiation and intercontinental population structure of mosquito vectors Culex pipiens pipiens and Culex pipiens molestus. Scientific Reports 10: 7504. 

Fritz ML, Nunziata SO, Guo R, Tabashnik BE, and Carrière Y (2020) Mutations in a novel cadherin gene associated with Bt resistance in Helicoverpa zea. G3: Genes,Genomes, Genetics 10(5):1563-1574. 

Aardema ML, vonHoldt BM, Fritz ML, and Davis SR (2020) Global evaluation of taxonomic relationships and genetic exchange within the Culex pipiens complex of mosquitoes. Parasites and Vectors 13:8. 

A complete list of my publications can be found here.