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Richard C. Wilkerson

Richard C. Wilkerson

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Biology and Biochemistry

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Richard C. Wilkerson is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with specializations in public health, environmental and occupational health, parasitology, infectious diseases, and genetics. This work addresses mosquito-borne diseases and control, malaria research and control, vector-borne infectious diseases, insect pest control strategies, viral infections and vectors, zoonotic diseases and public health, and dengue and mosquito control research.

Wilkerson has contributed to a number of scientific papers, including the following recent publications:

  • Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes, 2023, Nature Communications
  • The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification, 2023, Zootaxa
  • Identification keys to the Anopheles mosquitoes of South America (Diptera: Culicidae). IV. Adult females, 2020, Parasites & Vectors
  • Identification keys to the Anopheles mosquitoes of South America (Diptera: Culicidae). I. Introduction, 2020, Parasites & Vectors
  • Phylogenetic Network of Mitochondrial COI Gene Sequences Distinguishes 10 Taxa Within the Neotropical Albitarsis Group (Diptera: Culicidae), Confirming the Separate Species Status of Anopheles albitarsis H (Diptera: Culicidae) and Revealing a Novel Lineage, Anopheles albitarsis J, 2020, Journal of Medical Entomology

The scientist collaborates frequently with several colleagues, including:

  • Yvonne-Marie Linton
  • Maria Anice Mureb Sallum
  • Ranulfo González Obando
  • Silvia A. Justi
  • Nancy Carrejo

Wilkerson's work has been published in multiple venues, with recurring publications in:

  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Zootaxa
  • Journal of Medical Entomology
  • Nature Communications
  • Genes

Best Publications

  • Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

    Richard C. Wilkerson;Yvonne-Marie Linton;Dina M. Fonseca;Ted R. Schultz

  • Emergence of a New Neotropical Malaria Vector Facilitated by Human Migration and Changes in Land Use

    Jan E Conn;Richard C Wilkerson;M Nazaré O Segura;Raimundo T L de Souza

  • Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae) based on nuclear ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences

    Maria Anice Mureb Sallum;T. R. Schultz;P. G. Foster;K. Aronstein

  • Diagnosis by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction of four cryptic species related to Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis (Diptera: Culicidae) from Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

    Richard C. Wilkerson;Thomas J. Parsons;Terry A. Klein;Thomas V. Gaffigan

  • Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers readily distinguish cryptic mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae: Anopheles)

    Richard C. Wilkerson;T. J. Parsons;D. G. Albright;T. A. Klein

  • Six new species of the Anopheles leucosphyrus group, reinterpretation of An. elegans and vector implications

    Maria Anice Mureb Sallum;Maria Anice Mureb Sallum;E. L Peyton;R C Wilkerson

  • Aedes (Finlaya) japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae), a newly recognized mosquito in the United States: analyses of genetic variation in the United States and putative source populations.

    Dina M. Fonseca;Scott Campbell;Wayne J. Crans;Motoyoshi Mogi

  • DNA barcoding reveals both known and novel taxa in the Albitarsis Group (Anopheles: Nyssorhynchus) of Neotropical malaria vectors

    Freddy Ruiz-Lopez;Richard C Wilkerson;Jan E Conn;Jan E Conn;Sascha N McKeon

  • Population structure of the primary malaria vector in South America, Anopheles darlingi, using isozyme, random amplified polymorphic DNA, internal transcribed spacer 2, and morphologic markers.

    Sylvie Manguin;Richard C Wilkerson;Jan E Conn;Yasmin Rubio-Palis

  • Malaria vector species in Colombia: a review.

    James Montoya-Lerma;Yezid A Solarte;Gloria Isabel Giraldo-Calderón;Martha L Quiñones

  • Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera Culicidae) Based on Morphological Characters

    M. A. M. Sallum;M. A. M. Sallum;T. R. Schultz;R. C. Wilkerson

  • Toward understanding Anophelinae (Diptera, Culicidae) phylogeny: insights from nuclear single-copy genes and the weight of evidence.

    Jaroslaw Krzywinski;Richard C. Wilkerson;Nora J. Besansky

  • Illustrated key to the female anopheline mosquitoes of Central America and Mexico.

    R. C. Wilkerson;D. Strickman;T. R. Litwak

  • Standardized Nomenclature for the Costal Wing Spots of the Genus Anopheles and Other Spotted-Wing Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

    RichArd C. Wilkerson;E. L. Peyton

  • Revision of the Leucosphyrus group of Anopheles (Cellia) (Diptera, Culicidae)

    Maria Anice Mureb Sallum;Maria Anice Mureb Sallum;E. L Peyton;Bruce Arthur Harrison;Richard Charles Wilkerson

  • Insight into Global Mosquito Biogeography from Country Species Records

    Desmond H. Foley;Leopoldo M. Rueda;Richard C. Wilkerson

  • A newly recognized species in the Anopheles Hyrcanus Group and molecular identification of related species from the Republic of South Korea (Diptera: Culicidae)

    Cong Li;John S. Lee;Jennifer L. Groebner;Hueng-Chul Kim

  • Evolution of mitochondrial and ribosomal gene sequences in anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae): implications for phylogeny reconstruction.

    Jaroslaw Krzywinski;Richard C. Wilkerson;Nora J. Besansky

  • Ribosomal DNA ITS2 sequences differentiate six species in the Anopheles crucians complex (Diptera: Culicidae).

    Richard C. Wilkerson;John F. Reinert;Cong Li

  • PATHWAYS OF EXPANSION AND MULTIPLE INTRODUCTIONS ILLUSTRATED BY LARGE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AMONG WORLDWIDE POPULATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN HOUSE MOSQUITO

    Dina M. Fonseca;Julie L. Smith;Richard C. Wilkerson;Robert C. Fleischer

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Anice Mureb Sallum
Maria Anice Mureb Sallum Universidade de São Paulo
Jan E. Conn
Jan E. Conn New York State Department of Health
Terry A. Klein
Terry A. Klein United States Department of the Army
Yvonne-Marie Linton
Yvonne-Marie Linton Smithsonian Institution
Dina M. Fonseca
Dina M. Fonseca Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dave D. Chadee
Dave D. Chadee University of the West Indies
Peter G. Foster
Peter G. Foster Natural History Museum
Robert C. Fleischer
Robert C. Fleischer Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Ted R. Schultz
Ted R. Schultz National Museum of Natural History
Harry M. Savage
Harry M. Savage Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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