Elizabeth McGraw

Publications

• The microbiome composition of Aedes aegypti is not critical for Wolbachia-mediated inhibition of dengue virus
• The nature of the immune response in novel Wolbachia-host associations
• Wolbachia infection alters the relative abundance of resident bacteria in adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, but not larvae
• Wolbachia enhances insect‐specific flavivirus infection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
• Sustained Wolbachia-mediated blocking of dengue virus isolates following serial passage in Aedes aegypti cell culture
• Using genetic variation in Aedes aegypti to identify candidate anti-dengue virus genes
• Selection on Aedes aegypti alters Wolbachia-mediated dengue virus blocking and fitness
• Chikungunya Virus Transmission at Low Temperature by Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes
• Intra-host growth kinetics of dengue virus in the mosquito Aedes aegypti
• Temperature alters gene expression in mosquitoes during arbovirus infection
• Temperature modulates immune gene expression in mosquitoes during arbovirus infection
• Microbes increase thermal sensitivity in the mosquito Aedes aegypti, with the potential to change disease distributions
• The impact of artificial selection for Wolbachia-mediated dengue virus blocking on phage WO
• Predicting the response of disease vectors to global change: The importance of allometric scaling
• Assessing Aedes aegypti candidate genes during viral infection and Wolbachia ‐mediated pathogen blocking
• Attempts to use breeding approaches in Aedes aegypti to create lines with distinct and stable relative Wolbachia densities
• Cross-tissue and generation predictability of relative Wolbachia densities in the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
• Alpha-mannosidase-2 modulates arbovirus infection in a pathogen- and Wolbachia-specific manner in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
• Transmission and Protection against Reinfection in the Ferret Model with the SARS-CoV-2 USA-WA1/2020 Reference Isolate.
• The effects of DENV serotype competition and co-infection on viral kinetics in Wolbachia-infected and uninfected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
• Dengue virus dominates lipid metabolism modulations in Wolbachia-coinfected Aedes aegypti.
• Artificial Selection Finds New Hypotheses for the Mechanism of Wolbachia-Mediated Dengue Blocking in Mosquitoes.
• Transinfection of buffalo flies (Haematobia irritans exigua) with Wolbachia and effect on host biology.
• Wolbachia successfully replicate in a newly established horn fly, Haematobia irritans irritans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae) cell line.
• Infectious Diseases: Antiviral Wolbachia Limits Dengue in Malaysia.
• Prospects, challenges and current status of RNAi through insect feeding.
• El Niño Southern Oscillation, overseas arrivals and imported chikungunya cases in Australia: A time series analysis.
• Expanding the canon: Non-classical mosquito genes at the interface of arboviral infection.
• A Role for the Insulin Receptor in the Suppression of Dengue Virus and Zika Virus in Wolbachia-Infected Mosquito Cells.
• The Transcriptional Response of Aedes aegypti with Variable Extrinsic Incubation Periods for Dengue Virus.
• Complete genome of Aedes aegypti anphevirus in the Aag2 mosquito cell line.
• Family level variation in Wolbachia-mediated dengue virus blocking in Aedes aegypti.
• The RNAi pathway plays a small part in Wolbachia-mediated blocking of dengue virus in mosquito cells.
• Gut microbiota in Drosophila melanogaster interacts with Wolbachia but does not contribute to Wolbachia-mediated antiviral protection.
• Wolbachia-Based Dengue Virus Inhibition Is Not Tissue-Specific in Aedes aegypti.
• Evolutionary potential of the extrinsic incubation period of dengue virus in Aedes aegypti.
• The Effect of Temperature on Wolbachia-Mediated Dengue Virus Blocking in Aedes aegypti.
• Wolbachia Reduces the Transmission Potential of Dengue-Infected Aedes aegypti.
• Assessing the epidemiological effect of wolbachia for dengue control.
• Effect of repeat human blood feeding on Wolbachia density and dengue virus infection in Aedes aegypti.
• Discovery of putative small non-coding RNAs from the obligate intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis.
• Modeling the impact on virus transmission of Wolbachia-mediated blocking of dengue virus infection of Aedes aegypti.
• Wolbachia infection does not alter attraction of the mosquito Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti to human odours.
• Limited dengue virus replication in field-collected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia.
• Comparative susceptibility of mosquito populations in North Queensland, Australia to oral infection with dengue virus.
• The nature and extent of mutational pleiotropy in gene expression of male Drosophila serrata.
• Competition for amino acids between Wolbachia and the mosquito host, Aedes aegypti.
• Wolbachia-associated bacterial protection in the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
• Dietary cholesterol modulates pathogen blocking by Wolbachia.
• Infection with a Virulent Strain of Wolbachia Disrupts Genome Wide-Patterns of Cytosine Methylation in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti.
• Beyond insecticides: new thinking on an ancient problem.
• Transinfected Wolbachia have minimal effects on male reproductive success in Aedes aegypti.
• Draft genome sequence of the male-killing Wolbachia strain wBol1 reveals recent horizontal gene transfers from diverse sources.
• Genomic evolution of the pathogenic Wolbachia strain, wMelPop.
• The relative importance of innate immune priming in Wolbachia-mediated dengue interference.
• Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission.
• Adult Drosophila melanogaster evolved for antibacterial defense invest in infection-induced expression of both humoral and cellular immunity genes.
• High-dimensional variance partitioning reveals the modular genetic basis of adaptive divergence in gene expression during reproductive character displacement.
• The wMelPop strain of Wolbachia interferes with dopamine levels in Aedes aegypti.
• Variable infection frequency and high diversity of multiple strains of Wolbachia pipientis in Perkinsiella Planthoppers.
• Improved accuracy of the transcriptional profiling method of age grading in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes under laboratory and semi-field cage conditions and in the presence of Wolbachia infection.
• Fruit fly bioassay to distinguish "sweet" sugar structures.
• Wolbachia-mediated resistance to dengue virus infection and death at the cellular level.
• Wolbachia pipientis: an expanding bag of tricks to explore for disease control.
• Human probing behavior of Aedes aegypti when infected with a life-shortening strain of Wolbachia.
• A Wolbachia symbiont in Aedes aegypti limits infection with dengue, Chikungunya, and Plasmodium.
• Evidence of a spotted fever-like rickettsia and a potential new vector from northeastern Australia.
• Ultraconserved elements in insect genomes: a highly conserved intronic sequence implicated in the control of homothorax mRNA splicing.
• Diversifying selection and host adaptation in two endosymbiont genomes.
• Wolbachia: invasion biology in South pacific butterflies.
• Wolbachia infection reduces blood-feeding success in the dengue fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti.
• The ecological differentiation of asexual lineages of cotton aphids: alate behaviour, sensory physiology, and differential host associations
• Increased locomotor activity and metabolism of Aedes aegypti infected with a life-shortening strain of Wolbachia pipientis.
• Effective but costly, evolved mechanisms of defense against a virulent opportunistic pathogen in Drosophila melanogaster.
• Evidence for metabolic provisioning by a common invertebrate endosymbiont, Wolbachia pipientis, during periods of nutritional stress.
• Wolbachia infection in Australasian and North American populations of Haematobia irritans (Diptera: Muscidae).
• An expressed sequence tag (EST) library for Drosophila serrata, a model system for sexual selection and climatic adaptation studies.
• The microbial flora of Aphis gossypii: patterns across host plants and geographical space.
• An ancient horizontal gene transfer between mosquito and the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis.
• Host adaptation of a Wolbachia strain after long-term serial passage in mosquito cell lines.
• Wolbachia infection alters olfactory-cued locomotion in Drosophila spp.
• Drosophila melanogaster mounts a unique immune response to the Rhabdovirus sigma virus.
• Wolbachia pipientis in Australian spiders.
• Wolbachia replication and host cell division in Aedes albopictus.
• Phylogenomics of the reproductive parasite Wolbachia pipientis wMel: a streamlined genome overrun by mobile genetic elements.
• Wolbachia pipientis: intracellular infection and pathogenesis in Drosophila.
• Sequence polymorphism of dotA and mip alleles mediating invasion and intracellular replication of Legionella pneumophila.
• Wolbachia density and virulence attenuation after transfer into a novel host.
• Wolbachia-mediated sperm modification is dependent on the host genotype in Drosophila.
• Evolution of Wolbachia pipientis transmission dynamics in insects.
• Clonal relationship among invasive and non-invasive strains of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli serogroups.
• Molecular evolution and mosaic structure of alpha, beta, and gamma intimins of pathogenic Escherichia coli.
• Assessing the role of family level variation and heat shock gene expression in the thermal stress response of the mosquito Aedes aegypti
• Dengue and chikungunya virus loads in the mosquito Aedes aegypti are determined by distinct genetic architectures
• Exposure to ultraviolet‐B radiation increases the susceptibility of mosquitoes to infection with dengue virus
• Assessing Aedes aegypti candidate genes during viral infection and Wolbachia‐mediated pathogen blocking
• Jamestown Canyon virus is transmissible by Aedes aegypti and is only moderately blocked by Wolbachia co-infection
• Phenotypic adaptation to temperature in the mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti
• The effect of repeat feeding on dengue virus transmission potential in Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti following extended egg quiescence
• Larval crowding enhances dengue virus loads in Aedes aegypti, a relationship that might increase transmission in urban environments
• Local adaptation of the mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti, and implications for predicting the effects of temperature and climate change on dengue transmission.
• Evolution and adaptation of dengue virus in response to high temperature passaging in mosquito cells