Jason L Rasgon, Ph.D.

WEBSITE: RASGONLAB.COM

The Rasgon Laboratory integrates population biology, ecology, molecular tools and theory to address fundamental and applied questions related to vector arthropods and the pathogens they transmit, with emphasis on release of genetically-modified mosquitoes for disease control, pathogen transmission dynamics and bioterrorism issues.

My broad research interests are in the relationship between the genetics of vector populations and the epidemiology of vector-borne pathogens. I address this broad question using both top-down and bottom-up approaches. Specifically, I am interested in 1) how natural genetic variation in wild vector populations conditions phenotypic variation in pathogen transmission and 2) how natural genetic variation in wild vector populations can be artificially altered to have a directed effect on pathogen transmission dynamics.

A major research focus of my laboratory is the development, evaluation and deployment of methods to spread introduced transgenes into natural vector populations. Ongoing projects include creation of methods to infect the mosquito Anopheles gambiae with the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia, development of viral-based systems for gene expression and drive in Anopheles mosquitoes and studies of the relationship between ecological factors and the success of transgenic mosquito releases. Other major questions under investigation include examining relationships between vector population genetic structure and the epidemiology of vector-borne pathogens, using Culex tarsalis and West Nile virus as a model system.

I am looking for motivated people who are interested in applying a wide array of integrated techniques to investigate these important and exciting questions.

Lab Members and Affiliates:

Post-doctoral Researchers

Dr. Sujit Pujhari

Dr. Vanessa Macias

Dr. Marco Brustolin

Dr. Rong Ma (Co-advised with Christina Grozinger)

Dr. Donghun “Andy" Kim

Dr. Chan Heu

Dr. Nadya Urakova

PhD students

Becky Johnson

Karen Kemirembe

Duverney Chaverra Rodriguez

Justine Alexander

Cory Henderson

Allyson Ray (co-advised with Christina Grozinger)

Insectary technicians:

Erona Ibroci

Francine McCullough

Research technicians

Liz Wagner

Undergraduates

Sage McKeand

Destiny Buckwalter

Gianna Arrizurieta

Lab Alumni

Dr. Brittany Dodson (PhD 2018)

Dr. Masashi Nomura (Sabbatical 2016-2017)

Dr. Grant Hughes [postdoc] (currently Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch)

Dr. Yasutsugu Suzuki [postdoc] (Currently postdoc, Institut Pasteur)

Dr. Long Cui [postdoc] (Industry)

Dr. Xioxia Ren [postdoc] (Industry)

Dr. Chaoyang Jin (Currently postdoc, Canada's Michael Smith Genome Center)

Dr. Guodong Niu [postdoc] (currently postdoc, University of Oklahoma)

Dr. Hitoshi Tsujimoto [postdoc] (currently postdoc, New Mexico State University)

Dr. Tapan Barik [postdoc] (currently Assistant Professor, Berhampur University, India)

Dr. Xing Zhang [postdoc] (currently Associate Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Dr. Song Chen [postdoc] (Industry)

Dr. Olugbenga Oluwagbemi [PhD 2012] (currently Senior Lecturer, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria)

Dr. Meera Venkatesan [PhD 2008] (currently Senior malaria technical advisor, USAID)

Dr. Katie Provost Javier [PhD 2012] (Industry)

Dr. Courtney Gamston [MS 2007] (currently Discipline Chair for Pharmacology, Auburn University)

Active External Funding

1645331 (NSF/BIO) 2017-2020. IOS EDGE: Accelerating arthropod genetic manipulation through ReMOT Control. (Role: PI)

R01 AI128201 (NIH/NIAID) 2017-2022. Gene delivery for Anopheles mosquitoes. (Role: PI)

R01 AI116636 (NIH/NIAID) 2016-2021. Wolbachia-induced enhancement of human arboviral pathogens. (Role: PI)

R21 AI111175 (NIH/NIAID) 2014-2017. ReMOT Control of mosquito transgenesis. (Role: PI)

R21 AI128918 (NIH/NIAID) 2016-2018. Potential for mosquitoes in the United States to transmit Zika virus. (Role: PI)

U19 AI089672 (NIH/NIAID) 2017-2024. Southeast Asia Malaria Research Center. (Role: Co-investigator)

DARPA Insect Allies 2017-2021. Crop Protection using Transgenic Plants that Complement Deconstructed Insect Transmitted Viral Vectors. (Role: Co-PI)

2014-10320 (USDA/NIFA) 2015-2017. Tools for rapid genetic transformation of bees. (Role: Co-PI)

Pebble Labs collaborative grant 2018-2022. (Role: Co-PI)

Publications

2018:

100. Brustolin M, Pujhari S, Henderson CA, Rasgon JL. 2018. Anopheles mosquitoes may drive invasion and transmission of arboviruses across geographically diverse regions. In review.

99. Johnson RM, Rasgon JL. 2018. Densonucleosis viruses (“densoviruses") for mosquito and pathogen control. In review.

98. Pujhari S, Brustolin M, Macias VM, Nissly RH, Nomura M, Kuchipudi SV, Rasgon JL. 2018. Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) mediates Zika virus entry, replication, and egress from host cells. In review (Preprint available at: bioRxiv. 135350).

97. Chaverra-Rodriguez D, Macias VM, Hughes GL, Pujhari S, Suzuki Y, Peterson DR, Kim D, Rasgon JL. 2018. Targeted “in utero" delivery of CRISPR-associated endonuclease 9 (Cas9) for heritable germline gene editing. In revision.

96. Roberts DF, Fleischer S, Sakamoto JM, Rasgon JL. 2018. Potential biological control of Erwinia tracheiphila by internal alimentary canal interactions in Acalymma vittatum with Pseudomonas fluorescens. In revision.

95. Hagan RW Szuter EM, Rosselot AE, Holmes CJ, Siler SC, Rosendale AJ, Hendershot JM, Elliott KSB, Jennings EC, Rizlallah AE, Xiao Y, Watanabe M, Romick-Rosendale LE, Rasgon JL, Benoit JB. 2018. Dehydration bouts prompt increased activity and blood feeding by mosquitoes.  Scientific Reports. In press (Preprint available at: bioRxiv. 120741).

94. Dodson BL, Pujhari S, Rasgon JL. 2018. Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus. PeerJ. 6:e4324.

2017:

93. Bassat Q, Birkett A, Bompart F, Burt A, Chaccour C, Chitnis C, Culpepper J, Domingo G, Duffy P, Ghani A, Greenwood B, Hall BF, Hamon N, Jacobs-Lorena M, James S, Kaslow D C, Koram K A, Kremsner P, Kumar A, Leroy D, Leroy O, Lindsay S, Majambere S, Mbogo C, McCarthy J, Okumu F, Qi G, Rasgon J, Rabinovich R, Richardson J, Richie T, Sauerwein R, Slutsker L, Vekemans J, Wells TNC. 2017. malERA: An updated research agenda for diagnostics, drugs, vaccines, and vector control in malaria elimination and eradication. PLoS Medicine. 14:e1002455

92. Dodson BL, Andrews ES, Turell MJ, Rasgon JL. 2017. Wolbachia effects on Rift Valley Fever virus infection in Culex tarsalis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 11:e0006050 (Preprint available at: bioRxiv. 135889).

91. Macias VM, Ohm JR, Rasgon JL. 2017. Gene drive for mosquito control: where did it come from and where are we headed? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 14:1006.

90. Tsujimoto H, Sakamoto JM, Rasgon JL. 2017. Functional characterization of Aquaporin-like genes in the human bed bug Cimex lectularius. Scientific Reports 7:3214.

89. Dodson BL, Rasgon JL. 2017. Vector competence of Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus. PeerJ. 5:e3096.

2016:

88. Barik TK, Suzuki Y, Rasgon JL. 2016. Factors influencing infection and transmission of Anopheles gambiae densovirus (AgDNV) in mosquitoes. PeerJ. 4:e2691.

87. Sakamoto JM, Fei Fan Ng T, Suzuki Y, Tsujimoto H, Deng X, Delwart E, Rasgon JL. 2016. Bunyaviruses are common in male and female Ixodes scapularis ticks in central Pennsylvania. PeerJ. 4: e2324.

86. Liu K, Tsujimoto H, Huang Y, Rasgon JL*, Agre P. 2016. Aquaglyceroporin function in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Biology of the Cell.108: 294-305. *corresponding author (Cover Article)

85. Pujhari S and Rasgon JL. 2016. Zika virus: A newly emergent vector-borne public health threat in the Americas. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1781v1.

84. Pujhari S, Rasgon JL, Zakhartchouk An. 2016. Anti-apoptosis in Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome Virus. Virulence. 3: 610-611.

83. Lindsey AR, Bordenstein SR, Newton IL, Rasgon JL. 2016. Wolbachia pipientis should not be split into multiple species. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 39: 220-222.

82. Hughes GL, Raygoza Garay JA, Rasgon JL*, Mwangi MM. 2016. Genome Sequence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain SmAs1 isolated from the Asian Malaria Mosquito Anopheles stephensi.  Genome Announcements. 4: e00086-16. *corresponding author

81. Hughes GL, Raygoza Garay JA, Rasgon JL*, Mwangi MM. 2016. Genome Sequences of Staphylococcus hominis strains ShAs1, ShAs2 and ShAs3 isolated from the Asian Malaria Mosquito Anopheles stephensi.Genome Announcements. 4: e00085-16. *corresponding author

80. Raygoza Garay JA, Hughes GL, Rasgon JL*, Mwangi MM. 2016. Genome Sequences of Elizabethkingia anophelis strain EaAs1 isolated from the Asian Malaria Mosquito Anopheles stephensi.Genome Announcements. 4: e00084-16. *corresponding author

2015:

79. Henning TC, Orr JM, Smith JD, Arias JR, Rasgon JL, Norris DE. 2015. Discovery of Filarial Nematode DNA in Amblyomma americanum in Northern Virginia. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. EPub ahead of print. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.11.007

78. Hegde S, Rasgon JL, Hughes GL. 2015. The microbiome modulates arbovirus transmission in mosquitoes. Current Opinion in Virology. 15: 97-102.

77. Suzuki Y, Barik TK, Johnson RM, Rasgon JL. 2015. In vitro and in vivo host range of Anopheles gambiae densovirus (AgDNV). Scientific Reports. 5: 12701.

76. Adebiyi M, Ogunlana O, Adebiyi E, Fatumo S, Rasgon JL. 2015. The Anopheles gambiae insecticidal targets made bare by in-silica analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference on African Development Issues (CU-ICADI) 2015: Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Track. pp. 32-39.

2014:

75. Ren X, Hughes GL, Niu G, Suzuki Y and Rasgon JL. 2014. Anopheles gambiae densovirus (AgDNV) has negligible effects on adult survival and transcriptome of its mosquito host. PeerJ. 2: e584.

74. Hughes GL, Rivero A and Rasgon JL. 2014. Wolbachia can enhance Plasmodium infection in mosquitoes: Implications for malaria control? PLoS Pathogens. 10: e1004182.

73. Hughes GL, Dodson BL, Johnson RM, Murdock CC, Tsuijimoto H, Suzuki Y, Patt AA, Cui L, Nossa CW, Barry RM, Sakamoto JM, Hornett EA and Rasgon JL. 2014. Native microbiome impedes vertical transmission of Wolbachia in Anopheles mosquitoes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 111: 12498-12503.

72. Sakamoto JM, Goddard J and Rasgon JL. 2014. Population and demographic structure of Ixodes scapularis Say in the eastern United States. PLoS ONE. 9: e101389.

71. Dodson BL, Hughes GL, Paul O, Matacchiero AC, Kramer LD and Rasgon JL. 2014. Wolbachia enhances West Nile virus (WNV) infection in the mosquito Culex tarsalis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 8: e2965.

70. Suzuki Y, Niu G, Hughes GL, Rasgon JL. 2014. A viral over-expression system for the major malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Scientific Reports. 4: 5127.

69. Hughes GL, Samuels SK, Shaikh K, Rasgon JL and Vardo-Zalik AM. 2014. Discrimination of the Plasmodium mexicanum vectors Lutzomyia stewarti and Lutzomyia vexator by a PCR-RFLP assay and Wolbachia infections. Journal of Vector Ecology. 39: 224-227.

68. Chen S, Rasgon JL. 2014. Culex tarsalis vitellogenin gene promoters investigated in silico and in vivo using transgenic Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE. 9: e88994. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088994

67. Provost-Javier KN and Rasgon JL. 2014. 20-hydroxyecdysone mediates non-canonical regulation of mosquito vitellogenins through alternative splicing. Insect Molecular Biology. 23: 407-416.

66. Murdock CC, Hughes GL, Rasgon JL and Thomas MB. 2014. Environmental temperature alters malaria transmission blocking by Wolbachia. Scientific Reports 4: 3932. doi: 10.1038/srep03932

65. Hughes GL and Rasgon JL. 2014. Transinfection: a method to investigate Wolbachia-host interactions and control arthropod-borne disease. Insect Molecular Biology. 23 :141-51.

64. Bourtzis K, Dobson S, Xi Z, Rasgon JL, Calviti M, Moreira LA, Bossin H, Moretti R, Baton LA, Hughes GL, Mavingui P and Gilles J. 2014. Harnessing Mosquito-Wolbachia Symbiosis for vector and disease control. Acta Tropica. 132S: S150-63.

2013:

63. Liu K, Dong Y, Huang Y, Rasgon JL and Agre P. 2013. Impact of trehalose transporter knockdown on Anopheles gambiae stress adaptation and susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 110: 17504 - 17509.

62. Smith RC, Kizito CM, Rasgon JL and Jacobs-Lorena M. 2013. Malaria-resistant mosquitoes have a fitness advantage when fed Plasmodium falciparum-infected blood. PLoS ONE.  8: e76097.

61. Tsujimoto H, Liu K, Linser PJ, Agre P and Rasgon JL. 2013. Organ-specific splice variants of aquaporin AgAQP1 in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. PLoS ONE. 8: e75888.

60. M Adebiyi, Oghuan J, Fatumo S, AdebiyiE and Rasgon J. 2013. A functional workbench for Anopheles gambiae micro array analysis. Proceedings of the UKSim-AMSS Seventh European Modeling Symposium on Computer Modelling and Simulation (EMS 2013). 138-143.

59. Oluwagbemi OO, Fornadel CM, Adebiyi EF, Norris DE and Rasgon JL. 2013. ANOSPEX: A stochastic spatially explicit model for studying Anopheles metapopulation dynamics. PLoS ONE. 8: e68040.

2012:

58. Rasgon JL. 2012. Wolbachia and the Culex pipiens species complex. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 28(4s): 122.

57. Dodson BL, Kramer LD and Rasgon JL. 2012. Effects of larval rearing temperature on immature development and West Nile virus vector competence of Culex tarsalis. Parasites and Vectors. 5: 199.

56. Leek JT, Taub MA and Rasgon JL. 2012. A statistical approach to selecting and confirming validation targets in -omics experiments. BMC Bioinformatics. 13: 150.

55. Hughes GL, Pike AD, Xue P and Rasgon JL. 2012. Invasion of Wolbachia into Anopheles and other insect germlines in an ex vivo organ culture system. PLoS ONE. 7: e36277.

54. Rasgon JL. 2012. Wolbachia induces male-specific mortality in the mosquito Culex pipiens (LIN strain). PLoS ONE. 7: e30381.

53. Hughes GL, Vega-Rodriguez J, Xue P and Rasgon JL. 2012. Wolbachia strain wAlbB enhances infection by the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78: 1491-1495.

52. Zhang X, Ren X, Norris DE and Rasgon JL.  2012. Distribution and infection frequency of Candidatus Rickettsia amblyommii in Maryland populations of the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), and culture in an Anopheles gambiae mosquito cell line. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. 3: 38-42.

51. Hughes G and Rasgon JL. 2012. Wolbachia infections in arthropod hosts.  Chapter 9, Insect Pathology and Microbial Pest Control, Eds. H Kaya and F Vega.

2011:

50. Rasgon JL. 2011. Mosquitoes attacked from within. Nature. 476: 407-408.

49. Foy BD, Kobylinski KC, da Silva IM, Rasgon JL and Sylla M. 2011. Endectocides for malaria control. Trends in Parasitology. 10: 423-428.

48. Dodson BL, Kramer LD and Rasgon JL. 2011. Larval nutritional stress does not affect vector competence for West Nile virus (WNV) in Culex tarsalis. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 11: 1493-1497.

47. Rasgon JL. Using infections to fight infections:  Paratransgenic fungi can block malaria transmission in mosquitoes. 2011. Future Microbiology. 6: 851-853.

46. Zhang X, Norris DE and Rasgon JL.  2011. Distribution and molecular characterization of Wolbachia endosymbionts and filarial nematodes in Maryland populations of the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 77:50-56.

45. Hughes GL, Koga R, Xue P, Fukatsu T and Rasgon JL. 2011. Wolbachia infections are virulent and inhibit the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in Anopheles gambiae. PLoS Pathogens. 7: e1002043. (May 2011 issue Cover Article)

44. Liu K, Tsujimoto H, Cha S, Agre P and Rasgon JL. 2011. Aquaporin water channel AgAQP1 in the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae during blood-feeding and humidity adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 108: 6062-6066.

43. Hughes GL, Ren X, Ramirez JL, Sakamoto JM, Bailey JA, Jedlicka AE and Rasgon JL. 2011. Wolbachia infections in Anopheles gambiae cells: transcriptomic characterization of a novel host-symbiont interaction. PLoS Pathogens. 7: e1001296.

42. The malERA Consultative Group on Basic Science and Enabling Technologies (31 authors, including Rasgon J). 2011. A Research Agenda for Malaria Eradication: Basic Science and Enabling Technologies. PLoS Medicine. 8: e1000399.

2010:

41. Sylla M, Kobylinski KC, Gray M, Chapman P, Sarr MD,Rasgon JL and Foy BD. 2010. Mass drug administration of ivermectin in south-eastern Senegal reduces the survivorship of wild-caught, blood fed malaria vectors. Malaria Journal. 9: 365.

40. Ren X and Rasgon JL. 2010. Potential for the Anopheles gambiae densonucleosis virus (AgDNV) to act as an “evolution proof" biopesticide. Journal of Virology. 84: 7726-7729.

39. Chen S, Armistead J, Provost-Javier K, Sakamoto JM and Rasgon JL. 2010. Duplication, concerted evolution and purifying selection drive the evolution of mosquito vitellogenin genes. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10: 142.

38. Provost-Javier KN, Chen S and Rasgon JL. 2010. Vitellogenin gene expression in autogenous Culex tarsalis. Insect Molecular Biology. 19: 423-429.

37. Venkatesan M and Rasgon JL. 2010.  Population genetic data suggest a role for mosquito-mediated dispersal of West Nile virus across the western United States. Molecular Ecology. 19: 1573–1584.

2009:

36. Arik AJ, Rasgon JL, Quicke KM and Riehle MA. 2009. Manipulating insulin signaling to enhance mosquito reproduction. BMC Physiology. 9: 15.

35. Rasgon JL. 2009. Multi-locus assortment (MLA) for transgene dispersal and elimination in mosquito populations. PLoS ONE 4: e5833.

34. Venkatesan M, Broman KW, Sellers M and Rasgon JL. 2009. An initial linkage map of the West Nile Virus vector Culex tarsalis. Insect Molecular Biology. 18: 453-463.

33. Jin C, Ren X and Rasgon JL. 2009. The virulent Wolbachia strain wMelPop efficiently establishes somatic infections in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75: 3373-3376.

2008:

32. Dunning-Hotopp JC and Rasgon JL. 2008. Bacterial sequences in an invertebrate genome. Microbiology Today. Nov: 176-179.

31. Ren X, Hoiczyk E and Rasgon JL. 2008. Viral paratransgenesis in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. PLoS Pathogens, 4: e1000135. Featured in Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine.

30. Rasgon JL. Wolbachia and Anopheles mosquitoes. In Insect symbiosis, vol. 3. Eds. K. Bourtzis and T. Miller. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. Ch. 14, 321-372.

29. Wong J, Tripet F, Rasgon JL, Lanzaro GC and Scott TW. 2008. SSCP analysis of scnDNA for genetic profiling of Aedes aegypti. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 79: 511-517.

28. Billingsley PF, Foy B and Rasgon JL, 2008. Mosquitocidal vaccines: a neglected addition to malaria and dengue control strategies. Trends in Parasitology, 24: 396-400.

27. Rasgon JL, 2008. Stable isotope analysis can potentially identify completely-digested bloodmeals in mosquitoes. PLoS ONE 3: e2198.

26. Rasgon JL, 2008. Using predictive models to optimize Wolbachia-based strategies for vector-borne disease control. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 627: 114-125.

2007:

25. Marrelli M, Li C, Rasgon JL and Jacobs-Lorena M. 2007. Transgenic malaria-resistant mosquitoes have a fitness advantage when feeding on Plasmodium-infected blood. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104: 5580-5583. Featured in Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine.

24. Venkatesan M, Westbrook CJ, Hauer MC and Rasgon JL. 2007. Evidence for a population expansion in the West Nile virus vector Culex tarsalis. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24: 1208-1218.

23. Venkatesan M, Hauer MC and Rasgon JL. 2007. Using fluorescently-labeled M13-tailed primers to isolate 45 novel microsatellite loci from the arboviral vector Culex tarsalis. Med. Vet. Entomol. 21: 204-208.

22. Rasgon J. 2007. Population Replacement Strategies for Controlling Vector Populations and the Use of Wolbachia pipientis for Genetic Drive. J. Vis. Exp. 5: 225.

21. Gamston C and Rasgon J. 2007. Maintaining Wolbachia in Cell-free Medium. J. Vis. Exp. 5: 223.

2006:

20. Rasgon JL, Ren X and Petridis M. 2006. Can Anopheles gambiae be infected with Wolbachia pipientis? Insights from an in vitro system. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 7718-7722.

19. Rasgon JL, Gamston C and Ren X, 2006. Survival of Wolbachia pipientis in cell-free medium. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 6934-6937.

18. Rasgon JL, Cornel AJ and Scott TW, 2006. Evolutionary history of a mosquito endosymbiont revealed through mitochondrial hitchhiking. Proc. R. Soc. B. 273: 1603-1611.

17. Sakamoto JM, Feinstein J and Rasgon JL, 2006. Wolbachia infections in the Cimicidae: Museum specimens as an untapped resource for endosymbiont surveys. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 3161-3167.

16. Rasgon JL, Venkatesan M, Westbrook CJ, and Hauer MC, 2006. Polymorphic microsatellite loci from the West Nile virus vector Culex tarsalis. Mol. Ecol. Notes. 6: 680-682.

15. Sakamoto JM and Rasgon JL, 2006. Geographic distribution of Wolbachia infections in Cimex lectularius L. (Heteroptera: Cimicidae). J. Med. Entomol. 43: 696-700.

14. Sakamoto JM and Rasgon JL, 2006. Endosymbiotic bacteria of bed bugs: Evolution, ecology and genetics. Amer. Entomol. 52: 119-122.

2005:

13. Rasgon JL and Gould F, 2005. Transposable element insertion location bias and the dynamics of gene drive in mosquito populations. Insect Mol. Biol. 14: 493-500.

12. Scott TW, Rasgon JL, Black WCIV and Gould F, 2005. Fitness studies: developing a consensus methodology, in Bridging laboratory and field research for genetic control of disease vectors, eds. Knols BGJ and Louis C. Frontis, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Ch. 16, 171-181.

11. Rasgon JL, Styer LM and Minnick SL, 2005. Traditional vector control research should receive higher priority than transgenic efforts to control vector-borne diseases: Con position. Amer. Entomol. 51: 108.

10. Rasgon JL, Styer LM and Minnick SL, 2005. The federal government should support the use of pesticides previously banned in the United States to fight vector-borne diseases in developing countries. Amer. Entomol. 51: 110-111.

2004:

9. Rasgon JL and Scott TW, 2004. Phylogenetic Characterization of Wolbachia Symbionts Infecting Cimex lectularius L. and Oeciacus vicarius Horvath (Hemiptera: Cimicidae). J. Med. Entomol. 41: 1175-1178.

8. Rasgon JL and Scott TW, 2004. Crimson: A novel sex-linked eye color mutant of Culex pipiens L. (Diptera: Culicidae). J. Med. Entomol. 41: 385-391.

7. Rasgon JL and Scott TW, 2004. Impact of population age structure on Wolbachia transgene driver efficacy: Ecologically complex factors and release of genetically-modified mosquitoes. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 34: 707-713.

6. Rasgon JL and Scott TW, 2004. An initial survey for Wolbachia (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) infection in selected California mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). J. Med. Entomol. 41: 255-257.

2003:

5. Rasgon JL and Scott TW, 2003. Wolbachia and cytoplasmic incompatibility in the California Culex pipiens mosquito species complex: Parameter estimates and infection dynamics in natural populations. Genetics 165: 2029-2038.

4. Rasgon JL, Styer LM and Scott TW, 2003. Wolbachia-induced mortality as a mechanism to modulate pathogen transmission by vector arthropods. J. Med. Entomol. 40: 125-132.

3. Cornel AJ, McAbee RD, Rasgon J, Stanich MA, Scott TW and Coetze M, 2003. Differences in extent of genetic introgression between sympatric Culex pipiens and Culex quinquefasciatus in California and South Africa. J. Med. Entomol. 40: 36-51.

2. Rasgon JL, 2003. Population subdivision can help or hinder Wolbachia introductions into vector populations. Proc. Mosq. Vec. Control Assoc. CA 71: 80-86.

2000:

1. Rasgon JL, 2000. Geographic distribution of Wolbachia infection in the California Culex pipiens complex: infection frequencies in natural populations. Proc. Mosq. Vec. Control Assoc. CA 68: 75-79.