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Animal Science and Veterinary
USA
2023

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Animal Science and Veterinary

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70
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Donald P. Knowles is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broad areas, their work prominently engages with parasitology, insect science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, immunology, and infectious diseases.

The topics covered by their research include vector-borne infectious diseases, vector-borne animal diseases, insect and pesticide research, toxin mechanisms and immunotoxins, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, viral infections and vectors, and helminth infection and control.

Knowles has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Lindsay M. Fry, Reginaldo G. Bastos, Richard P. Bishop, Kelly P. Sears, and Cynthia Onzere.

Their publications often appear in specific scientific venues such as Pathogens, Parasites & Vectors, Preprints.org, Scientific Reports, and OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University. Notably, four publications were released in Pathogens and three in Parasites & Vectors.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Donald P. Knowles include:

  • Twenty Years of Equine Piroplasmosis Research: Global Distribution, Molecular Diagnosis, and Phylogeny, 2020, Pathogens
  • A review of recent research on Theileria parva: Implications for the infection and treatment vaccination method for control of East Coast fever, 2020, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Imidocarb Dipropionate Lacks Efficacy against Theileria haneyi and Fails to Consistently Clear Theileria equi in Horses Co-Infected with T. haneyi, 2020, Pathogens
  • Equid infective Theileria cluster in distinct 18S rRNA gene clades comprising multiple taxa with unusually broad mammalian host ranges, 2020, Parasites & Vectors
  • Clinical Progression of Theileria haneyi in Splenectomized Horses Reveals Decreased Virulence Compared to Theileria equi, 2022, Pathogens

Donald P. Knowles was awarded the fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence of Babesia bovis and comparative analysis of apicomplexan hemoprotozoa.

    Kelly A Brayton;Audrey O. T Lau;David R Herndon;Linda Hannick

  • Detection of Cattle Naturally Infected with Anaplasma marginale in a Region of Endemicity by Nested PCR and a Competitive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Using Recombinant Major Surface Protein 5

    Susana Torioni de Echaide;Donald P. Knowles;Donald P. Knowles;Travis C. McGuire;Guy H. Palmer

  • Preclinical Diagnosis of Scrapie by Immunohistochemistry of Third Eyelid Lymphoid Tissue

    K. I. O'Rourke;T. V. Baszler;T. E. Besser;J. M. Miller

  • Review of equine piroplasmosis.

    L.N. Wise;L.N. Wise;L.S. Kappmeyer;R.H. Mealey;D.P. Knowles;D.P. Knowles

  • The Anaplasma marginale msp5 gene encodes a 19-kilodalton protein conserved in all recognized Anaplasma species.

    E S Visser;T C McGuire;G H Palmer;W C Davis

  • Monoclonal antibody F89/160.1.5 defines a conserved epitope on the ruminant prion protein.

    Katherine I. O’Rourke;Timothy V. Baszler;Janice M. Miller;Terry R. Spraker

  • Polymorphisms in the prion precursor functional gene but not the pseudogene are associated with susceptibility to chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer.

    Katherine I. O'Rourke;Katherine I. O'Rourke;Terry R. Spraker;Linda K. Hamburg;Thomas E. Besser

  • Efficient use of a small genome to generate antigenic diversity in tick-borne ehrlichial pathogens

    Kelly A. Brayton;Donald P. Knowles;Travis C. McGuire;Guy H. Palmer

  • Transmission of Anaplasma marginale by Boophilus microplus: Retention of Vector Competence in the Absence of Vector-Pathogen Interaction

    James E. Futse;Massaro W. Ueti;Donald P. Knowles;Donald P. Knowles;Guy H. Palmer

  • Association of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae Infection with Population-Limiting Respiratory Disease in Free-Ranging Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis)

    Thomas E. Besser;E. Frances Cassirer;E. Frances Cassirer;Kathleen A. Potter;John VanderSchalie

  • Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae can predispose bighorn sheep to fatal Mannheimia haemolytica pneumonia

    Rohana P. Dassanayake;Sudarvili Shanthalingam;Caroline N. Herndon;Renuka Subramaniam

  • Competitive inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for antibody in sheep and other ruminants to a conserved epitope of malignant catarrhal fever virus.

    Hong Li;D. T. Shen;D. P. Knowles;J. R. Gorham

  • Immune control of Babesia bovis infection

    Wendy C. Brown;Junzo Norimine;Donald P. Knowles;Donald P. Knowles;Will L. Goff

  • Serological diagnosis of bovine neosporosis by Neospora caninum monoclonal antibody-based competitive inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

    T V Baszler;D P Knowles;J P Dubey

  • Antibody to a recombinant merozoite protein epitope identifies horses infected with Babesia equi.

    D P Knowles;L S Kappmeyer;D Stiller;S G Hennager

  • Comparative genomic analysis and phylogenetic position of Theileria equi.

    Lowell S. Kappmeyer;Mathangi Thiagarajan;David R. Herndon;Joshua D. Ramsay

  • Recognition of another member of the malignant catarrhal fever virus group: an endemic gammaherpesvirus in domestic goats

    Hong Li;Janice Keller;Donald P. Knowles;Timothy B. Crawford

  • Experimental transmission of equine hepacivirus in horses as a model for hepatitis C virus.

    Joshua D. Ramsay;Ryan Evanoff;Tom E. Wilkinson;Thomas J. Divers

  • Investigation of sheep-associated malignant catarrhal fever virus infection in ruminants by PCR and competitive inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

    Hong Li;D. T. Shen;D. O'toole;D. P. Knowles

  • Preclinical detection of PrPSc in nictitating membrane lymphoid tissue of sheep

    Katherine I. O'Rourke;T. V. Baszler;S. M. Parish;D. P. Knowles

  • Detection of Equine Antibodies to Babesia caballi by Recombinant B. caballi Rhoptry-Associated Protein 1 in a Competitive-Inhibition Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay

    Lowell S. Kappmeyer;Lance E. Perryman;Stephen A. Hines;Timothy V. Baszler

  • Chronic disease in goats orally infected with two isolates of the caprine arthritis-encephalitis lentivirus.

    W. P. Cheevers;D. P. Knowles;T. C. McGuire;D. R. Cunningham

  • Pregnancy status and fetal prion genetics determine PrPSc accumulation in placentomes of scrapie-infected sheep

    Wenbin Tuo;Katherine I. O'Rourke;Dongyue Zhuang;William P. Cheevers

  • Severity of arthritis is predicted by antibody response to gp135 in chronic infection with caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus.

    D Knowles;W Cheevers;T McGuire;T Stem

  • Superinfection as a driver of genomic diversification in antigenically variant pathogens.

    James E. Futse;Kelly A. Brayton;Michael J. Dark;Donald P. Knowles

Frequent Co-Authors

Massaro W. Ueti
Massaro W. Ueti Washington State University
Guy H. Palmer
Guy H. Palmer Washington State University
Travis C. McGuire
Travis C. McGuire Washington State University
Glen A. Scoles
Glen A. Scoles United States Department of Agriculture
Terry F. McElwain
Terry F. McElwain Washington State University
William C. Davis
William C. Davis Washington State University
Wendy C. Brown
Wendy C. Brown Washington State University
Thomas E. Besser
Thomas E. Besser Washington State University
John B. Dame
John B. Dame University of Florida
Douglas R. Call
Douglas R. Call Washington State University

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