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L. Philip Lounibos is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States, focusing research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Insect Science, Plant Science, Infectious Diseases, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in Lounibos' research involve mosquito-borne diseases and control, malaria research and control, viral infections and vectors, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, parasite biology and host interactions, insect pest control strategies, and insect utilization and effects.

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include EDIS, Insects, Malaria Journal, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, and Viruses.

Recent papers authored by Lounibos include:

  • Interspecific Mating Effects on Locomotor Activity Rhythms and Refractoriness of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) Females, 2020, Insects
  • Vectorial capacities for malaria in eastern Amazonian Brazil depend on village, vector species, season, and parasite species, 2022, Malaria Journal
  • Mosquitoes Eating Mosquitoes: How Toxorhynchites amboinensis, Psorophora ciliata, and Sabethes cyaneus (Diptera: Culicidae) Capture Prey, 2022, Annals of the Entomological Society of America
  • Effects of Mosquito Biology on Modeled Chikungunya Virus Invasion Potential in Florida, 2020, Viruses
  • Effects of Mosquito Biology on Modeled Chikungunya Virus Invasion Potential in Florida, 2020, Preprints.org

Lounibos has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Cynthia C. Lord, Joseph J. Pohedra, Barry W. Alto, Eva A. Buckner, and Thais de Souza Feitoza.

Best Publications

  • Spread of the tiger: global risk of invasion by the mosquito Aedes albopictus.

    Mark Q. Benedict;Rebecca S. Levine;William A. Hawley;L. Philip Lounibos

  • INVASIONS BY INSECT VECTORS OF HUMAN DISEASE

    L. Philip Lounibos

  • Ecology of invasive mosquitoes: effects on resident species and on human health: Invasive mosquitoes

    Steven A. Juliano;L. Philip Lounibos

  • Ecology of invasive mosquitoes: effects on resident species and on human health

    Steven A. Juliano;L. Philip Lounibos

  • Convergent habitat segregation of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in southeastern Brazil and Florida.

    Marieta A.H. Braks;Nildimar A. Honório;Ricardo Lourenço-De-Oliveira;Steven A. Juliano

  • Interspecific competition between two invasive species of container mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae), in Brazil.

    M. A. H. Braks;N. A. Honório;L. P. Lounibos;R. Lourenço-De-Oliveira

  • Larval competition alters susceptibility of adult Aedes mosquitoes to dengue infection.

    Barry W. Alto;L. Philip Lounibos;Christopher N. Mores;Michael H. Reiskind

  • A field test for competitive effects of Aedes albopictus on A. aegypti in South Florida: differences between sites of coexistence and exclusion?

    Steven A. Juliano;L. Philip Lounibos;George F. O’Meara

  • LARVAL COMPETITION DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECTS ARBOVIRUS INFECTION IN AEDES MOSQUITOES.

    Barry W. Alto;L. Philip Lounibos;Stephen Higgs;Steven A. Juliano

  • EVOLUTION OF DORMANCY AND ITS PHOTOPERIODIC CONTROL IN PITCHER-PLANT MOSQUITOES.

    William E. Bradshaw;L. Philip Lounibos

  • Size Alters Susceptibility of Vectors to Dengue Virus Infection and Dissemination

    Barry W. Alto;Michael H. Reiskind;L. Philip Lounibos

  • Phytoelmata : terrestrial plants as hosts for aquatic insect communities

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  • Insects and allies associated with bromeliads: a review.

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  • Larval Environmental Temperature and the Susceptibility of Aedes albopictus Skuse (Diptera: Culicidae) to Chikungunya Virus

    Catherine J. Westbrook;Michael H. Reiskind;Kendra N. Pesko;Krystle E. Greene

  • Chikungunya virus transmission potential by local Aedes mosquitoes in the Americas and Europe

    Anubis Vega-Rúa;Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira;Laurence Mousson;Marie Vazeille

  • Evolution of resistance to satyrization through reproductive character displacement in populations of invasive dengue vectors

    Irka E. Bargielowski;L. Philip Lounibos;María Cristina Carrasquilla

  • Competitive Reduction by Satyrization? Evidence for Interspecific Mating in Nature and Asymmetric Reproductive Competition between Invasive Mosquito Vectors

    Frederic Tripet;L. Philip Lounibos;Dannielle Robbins;Jenny Moran

  • Malaria vector incrimination in three rural riverine villages in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Allan Kardec Ribeiro Galardo;Mercia Arruda;Alvaro A. R. D’Almeida Couto;Robert Wirtz

  • Habitat Segregation of Mosquito Arbovirus Vectors in South Florida

    Jorge R. Rey;Naoya Nishimura;Billi Wagner;Marieta A. H. Braks

  • Malaria Vector Heterogeneity in South America

    L. Philip Lounibos;Jan E. Conn

  • Photoperiodic control of development in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii

    William E. Bradshaw;L. Philip Lounibos

  • Testing Predictions of Displacement of Native Aedes by the Invasive Asian Tiger Mosquito Aedes Albopictus in Florida, USA

    L. P. Lounibos;G. F. O'Meara;R. L. Escher;N. Nishimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Juliano
Steven A. Juliano Illinois State University
Stephen P. Yanoviak
Stephen P. Yanoviak University of Louisville
Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira
Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Scott C. Weaver
Scott C. Weaver The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
William E. Bradshaw
William E. Bradshaw University of Oregon
Anna-Bella Failloux
Anna-Bella Failloux Institut Pasteur
Xavier de Lamballerie
Xavier de Lamballerie Aix-Marseille University
Dana L. Vanlandingham
Dana L. Vanlandingham Kansas State University
Bert G. Drake
Bert G. Drake Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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