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

Publications

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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 
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.