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The Short Lab
https://shortlab.cfaes.ohio-state.edu

Publications

  1. Magistrado D, Short S. The Aedes aegypti bacterial microbiota is robust to infection with the obligate microsporidian parasite Edhazardia aedis. [preprint]. 2026 January. Available from: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702404v1. doi: 10.64898/2026.01.28.702404.

  2. Dezse C, El-Dougdoug NK, Short SM. Addition of a single bacterial isolate to conventional larval rearing water can impact wing size and longevity in adult male Aedes aegypti. [preprint]. 2026 January. Available from: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.27.701390. doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.701390.

  3. Magistrado D, Short SM. Bacterial infection elicits the Aedes aegypti unfolded protein response. Open Biol. 2025 Nov;15(11):250207. doi: 10.1098/rsob.250207. Epub 2025 Nov 12. PubMed PMID: 41218768; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12606226.

  4. Kelly BJ, Joseph NC, Magistrado D, Short SM. The effects of mating and blood feeding on the immune defense of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2025 Oct;19(10):e0013542. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0013542. eCollection 2025 Oct. PubMed PMID: 41042823; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12507272.

  5. Foo A, Brettell LE, Nichols HL, 2022 UW-Madison Capstone in Microbiology Students, Medina Muñoz M, Lysne JA, Dhokiya V, Hoque AF, Brackney DE, Caragata EP, Hutchinson ML, Jacobs-Lorena M, Lampe DJ, Martin E, Valiente Moro C, Povelones M, Short SM, Steven B, Xu J, Paustian TD, Rondon MR, Hughes GL, Coon KL, Heinz E. MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies. PLoS Biol. 2024 Nov;22(11):e3002897. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002897. eCollection 2024 Nov. PubMed PMID: 39546548; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11633956.

  6. Radl J, Martínez Villegas L, Smith JS, Tirpak RA, Perry KI, Wetmore D, Tunis E, Smithberger J, Schuellerman H, Magistrado D, Winston RJ, Short SM. Mosquito abundance and diversity in central Ohio, USA vary among stormwater wetlands, retention ponds, and detention ponds and their associated environmental parameters. PLoS One. 2024;19(6):e0305399. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305399. eCollection 2024. PubMed PMID: 38917214; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11198753.

  7. Martinez-Villegas L, Lado P, Klompen H, Wang S, Cummings C, Pesapane R, Short SM. The microbiota of Amblyomma americanum reflects known westward expansion. PLoS One. 2024;19(6):e0304959. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304959. eCollection 2024. PubMed PMID: 38857239; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11164389.

  8. Short SM, Pesapane R. Ixodes scapularis (Blacklegged tick). Trends Parasitol. 2024 Jun;40(6):529-530. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2024.04.002. Epub 2024 Apr 26. Review. PubMed PMID: 38677926.

  9. El-Dougdoug NK, Magistrado D, Short SM. An obligate microsporidian parasite modulates defense against opportunistic bacterial infection in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. mSphere. 2024 Feb 28;9(2):e0067823. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00678-23. Epub 2024 Feb 7. PubMed PMID: 38323845; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10900900.

  10. Magistrado D, El-Dougdoug NK, Short SM. Sugar restriction and blood ingestion shape divergent immune defense trajectories in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Sci Rep. 2023 Jul 31;13(1):12368. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39067-9. PubMed PMID: 37524824; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10390476.

  11. Villegas LEM, Radl J, Dimopoulos G, Short SM (2023) Bacterial communities of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes differ between crop and midgut tissues. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 17(3): e0011218. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011218

  12. Caragata, E. and Short, S.M. 2022. Vector microbiota and immunity: modulating arthropod susceptibility to vertebrate pathogens. Current Opinion in Insect Science 50, 100875 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2022.100875

  13. Dada, N., Jupatanakul, N., Minard, G. Short, S.M., Akorli, J. , Martinez Villegas, L. 2021. Considerations for mosquito microbiome research from the Mosquito Microbiome Consortium. Microbiome 9, 36 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00987-7

  14. Grigsby, A.*#; Kelly, B*; Sanscrainte, ND; Becnel, JJ; and Short, SM. 2020. Propagation of the microsporidian parasite Edhazardia aedis in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (162), e61574, doi:10.3791/61574. *Co-first author, #Undergraduate mentee.

  15. Mancini, M.V.*; Damiani, C.*; Short, S.M.*; Cappelli, A.; Ulissi, U.; Capone, A.; Serrao, A.; Rossi, P.; Amici, A.; Kalogris, C.; Dimopoulos, G.; Ricci, I.; Favia, G. 2020. Inhibition of Asaia in Adult Mosquitoes Causes Male-Specific Mortality and Diverse Transcriptome Changes. Pathogens, 9, 380 *Co-first Author

  16. J. Carlson, S. M. Short, Y. Angleró-Rodríguez, and G. Dimopoulos. 2019. Larval exposure to bacteria modulates arbovirus infection and immune gene expression in adult Aedes aegypti. Dev Comp Immunol, 104, 103540. doi:10.1016/j.dci.2019.103540 

  17. M. E. Meuti and S. M. Short. 2019 Physiological and Environmental factors affecting the composition of the ejaculate in mosquitoes and other insects. Insects 10:74. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/10/3/74/htm

  18. S. M. Short, S. van Tol, H.J. MacLeod, G. Dimopoulos. 2018 Hydrogen cyanide produced by the soil bacterium Chromobacterium sp. Panama contributes to mortality in Anopheles gambiae mosquito larvae. Scientific Reports 8:8358. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26680-2

  19. S. M. Short, S. van Tol, B. Smith, Y. Dong, G. Dimopoulos. 2018. The mosquito adulticidal Chromobacterium sp. Panama causes transgenerational impacts on fitness parameters and elicits xenobiotic gene responses. Parasites and Vectors 11:229. https://rdcu.be/KMKi

  20. S.M. Short, E.F. Mongodin, H.J. MacLeod, O.A.C. Talyuli, G. Dimopoulos. 2017. Amino acid metabolic signaling influences Aedes aegypti midgut microbiome variability. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(7): e0005677. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005677

  21. J. L. Ramirez*, S. M. Short*, A. Bahia, R. Saraiva, Y. Dong, S. Kang, A Tripathi, G. Mlambo and G. Dimopoulos. 2014. Chromobacterium Csp_P reduces malaria and dengue infection in vector mosquitoes and has entomopathogenic and in vitro anti-pathogen activities. PLoS Pathogens 10(10): e1004398. *Co-first author

  22. S.M. Short and B.P. Lazzaro. 2013. Reproductive status alters transcriptomic response to infection in female Drosophila melanogaster. Genes|Genomes|Genetics 3:827-840.

  23. M. L. del Campo, R. Halitschke, S.M. Short, B.P. Lazzaro and A. Kessler. 2013. Dietary plant phenolic mediates tolerance to bacterial infection in Manduca sexta caterpillars. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 146:321-331.

  24. S.M. Short, M.F. Wolfner and B.P. Lazzaro. 2012. Female Drosophila melanogaster suffer reduced defense against infection due to seminal fluid components. J. Insect Physiol., 58:1192-1201.

  25. S.M. Short and B.P. Lazzaro. 2010. Female and male genetic contributions to post-mating immune defence in female Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277:3649-3657.