Zach N. Adelman

This study shows that blood-derived dietary protein increases sleep and reduces activity in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, suggesting a role for protein in regulating postprandial sleep behavior.

This paper demonstrates a gene drive mitigation strategy using Repeat Mediated Excision of a Drive Element (ReMEDE) to replace drive alleles with wild-type alleles in Drosophila melanogaster.

This study shows that cooler temperatures during the pupal stage of Aedes aegypti increase vector competence for Zika virus and raise its R0.

The paper shows that varying the length of the AePUb promoter in Aedes aegypti can adjust reporter gene expression levels in both cell culture and mosquitoes.

This study provides a detailed 72-hour transcriptome analysis of Aedes aegypti midgut after blood feeding, revealing gene expression dynamics across digestion and immune response phases.

This study shows that the Nix gene can convert female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into fertile males, which can then produce sex-converted offspring, but require mating with wild-type females to fly, and myo-sex is essential for male flight.

This study knocks out female-specific flight muscle genes in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, resulting in flightless females and flying males, offering a potential female-specific population control strategy.