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Biology and Biochemistry
Netherlands
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
99
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30681
World Ranking
1611
National Ranking
29

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Willem Takken is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, with a research focus that spans medicine and agricultural and biological sciences. Their scholarly work is primarily situated within several key subfields, including public health, environmental and occupational health, plant science, insect science, parasitology, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's research addresses topics such as mosquito-borne diseases and control, malaria research and control, insect pest control strategies, vector-borne infectious diseases, insect and pesticide research, viral infections and vectors, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Willem Takken has contributed to multiple papers, notably:

  • The importance of vector control for the control and elimination of vector-borne diseases, 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Effect of rodent density on tick and tick-borne pathogen populations: consequences for infectious disease risk, 2020, Parasites & Vectors
  • Exploiting the chemical ecology of mosquito oviposition behavior in mosquito surveillance and control: a review, 2020, Journal of Vector Ecology
  • Community factors affecting participation in larval source management for malaria control in Chikwawa District, Southern Malawi, 2020, Malaria Journal
  • The effect of community-driven larval source management and house improvement on malaria transmission when added to the standard malaria control strategies in Malawi: a cluster-randomized controlled trial, 2021, Malaria Journal

Their frequent co-authors include Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt, Robert S. McCann, Henk van den Berg, Steven Gowelo, and Michèle van Vugt.

Willem Takken's work is regularly published in venues such as Malaria Journal, Parasites & Vectors, Research Square, Scientific Reports, and bioRxiv. Their research output includes at least ten publications in Malaria Journal and eight in Parasites & Vectors, reflecting a focus on vector-borne diseases and malaria.

Best Publications

  • ODOR-MEDIATED BEHAVIOR OF AFROTROPICAL MALARIA MOSQUITOES

    Willem Takken;Bart G. J. Knols

  • Host preferences of blood-feeding mosquitoes

    Willem Takken;Niels O. Verhulst

  • Hitting Hotspots: Spatial Targeting of Malaria for Control and Elimination

    Teun Bousema;Jamie T. Griffin;Robert W. Sauerwein;David L. Smith

  • Entomopathogenic fungi for mosquito control: A review

    Ernst-Jan Scholte;Bart G.J. Knols;Robert A. Samson;Willem Takken

  • The importance of vector control for the control and elimination of vector-borne diseases

    Anne L. Wilson;Orin Courtenay;Louise A. Kelly-Hope;Thomas W. Scott

  • An Entomopathogenic Fungus for Control of Adult African Malaria Mosquitoes

    Ernst Jan Scholte;Kija Ng'Habi;Japheth Kihonda;Willem Takken

  • Olfactory regulation of mosquito-host interactions.

    L.J. Zwiebel;W. Takken

  • Odor Coding in the Maxillary Palp of the Malaria Vector Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Tan Lu;Yu Tong Qiu;Guirong Wang;Jae Young Kwon

  • Feeding strategies of anthropophilic mosquitoes result in increased risk of pathogen transmission

    Thomas W. Scott;Thomas W. Scott;Willem Takken

  • Circulation of four Anaplasma phagocytophilum ecotypes in Europe

    Setareh Jahfari;E Claudia Coipan;Manoj Fonville;Arieke Docters van Leeuwen

  • Absence of seasonal variation in malaria parasitaemia in an area of intense seasonal transmission.

    T. Smith;J.D. Charlwood;J. Kihonda;S. Mwankusye

  • Composition of Human Skin Microbiota Affects Attractiveness to Malaria Mosquitoes

    Niels O. Verhulst;Yu Tong Qiu;Hans Beijleveld;Chris Maliepaard

  • The role of olfaction in host-seeking of mosquitoes: a review.

    Willem Takken

  • Carbon dioxide and 1-octen-3-ol as mosquito attractants

    W. Takken;D.L. Kline

  • Unexpected High Losses of Anopheles gambiae Larvae Due to Rainfall

    Krijn P. Paaijmans;Moses O. Wandago;Andrew K. Githeko;Willem Takken

  • Effects of adult body size on fecundity and the pre-gravid rate of Anopheles gambiae females in Tanzania.

    Edith O. Lyimo;W. Takken

  • Effect of rearing temperature and larval density on larval survival, age at pupation and adult size of Anopheles gambiae.

    E. O. Lyimo;W. Takken;J. C. Koella

  • Infection of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae with the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae reduces blood feeding and fecundity.

    Ernst-Jan Scholte;Bart G.J. Knols;Bart G.J. Knols;Willem Takken

  • Do insecticide-treated bednets have an effect on malaria vectors?

    Willem Takken

  • The ecology of genetically modified mosquitoes.

    Thomas W. Scott;Willem Takken;Bart G. J. Knols;Christophe Boëte

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart G. J. Knols
Bart G. J. Knols Wageningen University & Research
Joop J. A. van Loon
Joop J. A. van Loon Wageningen University & Research
Hein Sprong
Hein Sprong Wageningen University & Research
Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Andrew K. Githeko
Andrew K. Githeko Kenya Medical Research Institute
Manoj Fonville
Manoj Fonville National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Marcel Dicke
Marcel Dicke Wageningen University & Research
Teun Bousema
Teun Bousema Radboud University
Ahmed Hassanali
Ahmed Hassanali Kenyatta University
Thomas W. Scott
Thomas W. Scott University of California, Davis

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