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Yvonne-Marie Linton is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work engages deeply with public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, parasitology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and plant science.

The main topics addressed in Linton's research include viral infections and vectors, mosquito-borne diseases and control, vector-borne infectious diseases, malaria research and control, vector-borne animal diseases, zoonotic diseases and public health, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Linton are Brian P. Bourke, Koray Ergünay, Laura Caicedo-Quiroga, David B. Pecor, and Silvia A. Justi.

Publications appear predominantly in parasitology and vector-related journals. The most common publication venues include:

  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Acta Tropica
  • Viruses

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Linton encompass a range of studies on vector-borne diseases, insect migration, and microbial pathogen surveillance:

  • Diversity, dynamics, direction, and magnitude of high-altitude migrating insects in the Sahel (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Global Distribution of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in a Climate Change Scenario of Regional Rivalry (2023, Insects)
  • Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Metagenomic Investigation of Ticks From Kenyan Wildlife Reveals Diverse Microbial Pathogens and New Country Pathogen Records (2022, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Incursion and establishment of the Old World arbovirus vector Aedes (Fredwardsius) vittatus (Bigot, 1861) in the Americas (2020, Acta Tropica)

Beyond journal articles, research contributions include a book publication titled Metagenomics for epidemiological surveillance in ONE HEALTH (2023), published by Frontiers Media.

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

  • Windborne long-distance migration of malaria mosquitoes in the Sahel

    Diana L. Huestis;Adama Dao;Moussa Diallo;Zana L. Sanogo

  • Mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculipennis group (Diptera: Culicidae) in Romania, with the discovery and formal recognition of a new species based on molecular and morphological evidence.

    G. Nicolescu;Y.-M. Linton;A. Vladimirescu;T.M. Howard

  • The Anopheles maculipennis complex (Diptera: Culicidae) in Iran: molecular characterization and recognition of a new species

    M.M. Sedaghat;Y.-M. Linton;M.A. Oshaghi;H. Vatandoost

  • Distribution and ecology of mosquitoes in a focus of dirofilariasis in northwestern Iran, with the first finding of filarial larvae in naturally infected local mosquitoes.

    S. Azari-Hamidian;M. R. Yaghoobi-Ershadi;E. Javadian;M. R. Abai

  • Genetic diversity and molecular identification of mosquito species in the Anopheles maculatus group using the ITS2 region of rDNA.

    C. Walton;P. Somboon;S.M. O’Loughlin;S. Zhang

  • 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

  • Diversity, dynamics, direction, and magnitude of high-altitude migrating insects in the Sahel.

    Jenna Florio;Laura M. Verú;Adama Dao;Alpha S. Yaro

  • Phylogenetic status and matrilineal structure of the biting midge, Culicoides imicola, in Portugal, Rhodes and Israel.

    John F Dallas;R. H. Cruickshank;Y. M. Linton;Y. M. Linton;Damien Nolan

  • Morphological and molecular identity of Anopheles (Cellia) sundaicus (Diptera: Culicidae), the nominotypical member of a malaria vector species complex in Southeast Asia

    Yvonne-Marie Linton;Ralph E. Harbach;Chang Moh Seng;Thomas G. Anthony

  • First Record of Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus in the Netherlands

    Ernst-Jan Scholte;Frans Jacobs;Yvonne-Marie Linton;Eddy Dijkstra

  • Comparative phylogeography reveals a shared impact of pleistocene environmental change in shaping genetic diversity within nine Anopheles mosquito species across the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot

    Katy Morgan;Samantha M. O'Loughlin;Samantha M. O'Loughlin;Bin Chen;Yvonne Marie Linton

  • Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene of five species of the Culicoides imicola species complex

    Y. M. Linton;Anne Jennifer Mordue;R. H. Cruickshank;R. Meiswinkel

  • Incrimination of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) rangeli and An. (Nys.) oswaldoi as natural vectors of Plasmodium vivax in Southern Colombia

    Martha L Quiñones;Freddy Ruiz;David A Calle;Ralph E Harbach

  • Barcoding Turkish Culex mosquitoes to facilitate arbovirus vector incrimination studies reveals hidden diversity and new potential vectors

    Filiz Gunay;Bulent Alten;Fatih Simsek;Adnan Aldemir

  • The effects of azadirachtin on the testes of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål).

    Y M. Linton;A J. Nisbet;A J. Mordue

  • Malaria vectors in South America: current and future scenarios

    Gabriel Zorello Laporta;Yvonne-Marie Linton;Richard C. Wilkerson;Richard C. Wilkerson;Richard C. Wilkerson;Eduardo Sterlino Bergo

  • Molecular differentiation of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) benarrochi and An. (N.) oswaldoi from Southern Colombia

    Freddy Ruiz;Martha L Quiñones;Holmes F Erazo;David A Calle

  • First Record of Stegomyia albopicta in Turkey Determined By Active Ovitrap Surveillance and DNA Barcoding

    Kerem Oter;Filiz Gunay;Erkut Tuzer;Yvonne-Marie Linton

  • Mosquitoes of eastern Amazonian Ecuador: biodiversity, bionomics and barcodes

    Yvonne-Marie Linton;James E Pecor;Charles H Porter;Luke Brett Mitchell

  • MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION ANOPHELES (ANOPHELES) SACHAROVI FAVRE, A PRIMARY VECTOR OF MALARIA IN THE MIDDLE EAST

    Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat;Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat;Yvonne-Marie Linton;Gabriela Nicolescu;Lisa Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard C. Wilkerson
Richard C. Wilkerson Smithsonian Institution
Ralph E. Harbach
Ralph E. Harbach Natural History Museum
Andreas Nitsche
Andreas Nitsche Robert Koch Institute
Jan E. Conn
Jan E. Conn New York State Department of Health
Jason W. Chapman
Jason W. Chapman University of Exeter
Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
Maria Anice Mureb Sallum
Maria Anice Mureb Sallum Universidade de São Paulo
Don R. Reynolds
Don R. Reynolds University of Greenwich
Roger K. Butlin
Roger K. Butlin University of Sheffield
Ian J. Kitching
Ian J. Kitching Natural History Museum

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