Publications

Brown LD. 2019. Immunity of fleas (Order Siphonaptera). Dev Comp Immunol. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2019.03.019.
Brown LD, Shapiro LLM, Thompson GA, Estévez-Lao TY, Hillyer JF. 2019. Transstadial immune activation in a mosquito: adults that emerge from infected larvae have stronger antibacterial activity in their hemocoel yet increased susceptibility to malaria infection. Ecol Evol. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5192.
Brown LD, Thompson GA, Hillyer JF. 2018. Transstadial transmission of larval hemocoelic infection negatively affects development and adult female longevity in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. J Invertebr Pathol. doi: 10.1016/j.jip.2017.10.008. (PMID: 29111355)
Healy SP, Brown LD, Hagstrom MR, Foil LD, Macaluso KR. 2017. Effect of Rickettsia felis Strain Variation on Infection, Transmission, and Fitness in the Cat Flea (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae). J Med Entomol. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjx046. (PMID: 28399259)
Bland DM*, Brown LD*, Jarrett CO, Hinnebusch BJ, Macaluso KR (*authors contributed equally). 2017. Methods in Flea Research. BEI Resources. (https://www.beiresources.org/Portals/2/VectorResources/Methods%20in%20Flea%20Research.pdf)
Brown LD, Macaluso KR. 2016. Rickettsia felis, an Emerging Flea-Borne Rickettsiosis. Curr Trop Med Rep. (PMID: 27340613)
Brown LD, Banajee KH, Foil LD, Macaluso KR. 2016. Transmission mechanisms of an emerging insect-borne rickettsial pathogen. Parasit Vectors. doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1511-8. (PMID: 27117813)
Brown LD, Christofferson RC, Banajee KH, Del Piero F, Foil LD, Macaluso KR. 2015. Cofeeding intra- and interspecific transmission of an emerging insect-borne rickettsial pathogen. Mol Ecol. doi: 10.1111/mec.13403. (PMID: 26414611)
Garcés-Restrepo M, Giraldo A, Carr JL, Brown LD. 2013. Turtle ectoparasites from the Pacific coastal region of Colombia. Biota Neotrop. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1676-06032013000300009)