Research Papers
Peer-reviewed Scientific Publications
Habitat disturbance and the organization of bacterial communities in Neotropical hematophagous arthropods. Plos One. In press.
Kelly L. Bennett, Alejandro Almanza, W. Owen McMillan, Kristin Saltonstall, Evangelina López Vdovenko, Jorge S. Vinda, Luis Mejia, Kaitlin Driesse, Luis F. De León & Loaiza JR.† 2019.
Bennett_2019_PlosOne
Integrated arbovirus surveillance improves the detection onset of Zika virus in Panama. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In press.
Gilberto A. Eskildsen, Laura D. Kramer, Steven D. Zink, Alan P. Dupuis II, Susan J. Wong, Andrea Furuya, & Loaiza JR.† 2019.
Eskildsen_et_al_2020
Detecting space-time clusters of dengue fever in Panama after adjusting for vector surveillance data. Plos One. In press.
Ari Whiteman, Michael R. Desjardins, Gilberto A. Eskildsen, & Loaiza JR.† 2019.
Whiteman_et_al_2019b
Dynamics and diversity of bacteria associated with the disease vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Scientific Reports, in press.
Bennett KL, Carmelo Gómez-Martínez, Yamileth Chin, Kristin Saltonstall, W. Owen McMillan, Jose R. Rovira & Loaiza JR.†. 2019. bennett_et_al-2019-scientific_reports
Molecular species validation of anthropophilic Phlebotominae sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in central Panama. Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol 114, e90034.
Dutari LC & Loaiza JR, 2019.
Molecular species validation_2019
Forest disturbance and insect disease vector risk in the lowland tropical rainforest of central Panama. Tropical Medicine & International Health,24(7): 849-861. doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13244.
Loaiza JR, Jose R. Rovira, Oris I. Sanjur, Jesus Altagracia Zepeda, James Pecor, Desmond H. Foley, Larissa C. Dutari, Meghan Radtke, Montira Pongsiri, Octavio Smith, Gabriel Z. Laporta 2019.
Forest disturbance and insect disease vector risk in the lowland tropical rainforest of central Panama_2019
Aedes mosquito infestation in socioeconomically contrasting neighborhoods of Panama City. EcoHealth, doi: 10.1007/s10393-019-01417-3.
Whiteman A, Gomez C, Rovira J, Loaiza JR, Chen G.
Aedes mosquito infestation in socioeconomically contrasting neighborhoods of Panama City
High infestation of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in used-tyres along the local transport network of Panama. Parasites and Vectors, 12: 264. doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3522-8.
Bennett KL, Carmelo Gómez-Martínez, Alejandro Almanza, Jose R. Rovira, W. Owen McMillan, Vanessa Enriquez, Elia Barraza, Marcela Díaz, Javier Sanchez Galan, Ari Whiteman, Rolando A. Gittens, Loaiza JR.†.
High infestation of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in used-tyres along the local transport network of Panama.
Diverse novel phleboviruses in Lutzomyia sandflies from the Panama Canal area, Central Panama. Journal of General Virology, 100(6):938-949. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001260.
Marklewitz M, Larissa C. Dutari, Sofia Paraskevopoulou, Rachel A. Page, Loaiza JR., Sandra Junglen 2019.
Diverse novel phleboviruses in Lutzomyia sandflies from the Panama Canal area, Central Panama.
Application of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry to identify species of the Neotropical malaria vector Anopheles. Malaria Journal, 18:95.
Loaiza JR., Alejandro Almanza, Juan C. Rojas, Luis Mejia, Norma D. Cervantes, Javier Sanchez Galan, Fernando Merchan, Arnaud Grillet, Matthew J. Miller, Luis F. De Léon and Rolando A. Gittens 2019.
Application of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry to identify species of the Neotropical malaria vector Anopheles.
Historical and contemporary forces combine to shape patterns of genetic differentiation in two species of Mesoamerican Anopheles mosquitoes. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 126(1):146–157.
Mitogenomics of Central American weakly-electric fishes. Gene 686, 164-170.
Celestino Aguilar, Matthew J. Miller, Loaiza JR., Rüdiger Krahe, Luis F. De Leon. 2018.
Mitogenomics of Central American weakly-electric fishes.
Socioeconomic and demographic predictors of resident knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding arthropod-borne viruses in Panama. BMC Public Health 18:1261.
Ari Whiteman, A. Mejia, I. Hernandez and Loaiza JR†. 2018.
Socioeconomic and demographic predictors of resident knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding arthropod-borne viruses in Panama. Socioeconomic and demographic predictors of resident knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding arthropod-borne viruses in Panama.
Maternal invasion history of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus into the Isthmus of Panama: Implications for the control of emergent viral disease agents. Plos One 13(3): e0194874.
Eskildsen A. Gilberto, Rovira Jose, Smith Octavio, Miller Matthew, Loaiza JR.† 2018.
Maternal invasion history of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus into the Isthmus of Panama: Implications for the control of emergent viral disease agents.
American Trypanosomiasis (a.k.a Chagas Disease) in Panama: chronological synopsis of ecological and epidemiological research. Parasites and Vectors 10:459 DOI 10.1186/s13071-017-2380-5.
Indra G. Rodriguez, Loaiza JR.†. 2017.
American Trypanosomiasis (a.k.a Chagas Disease) in Panama: chronological synopsis of ecological and epidemiological research.
Disturbance and mosquito diversity in the lowland tropical rainforest of central Panama. Scientific Reports 7: 7248.
Loaiza JR., Larissa C. Dutari, Jose R. Rovira, Oris I. Sanjur, Gabriel Laporta, James Pecor, Desmond Foley, Gillian Eastwood, Laura Kramer, Meghan Radtke, and Montira Pongsiri 2017.
Disturbance and mosquito diversity in the lowland tropical rainforest of central Panama.
Isolation and characterization of a multicomponent insect virus with sequence homology to the family Flaviviridae. Cell Host & Microbes 20, 1– 11.
Ladner Jason T., Michael R. Wiley, Brett Beitzel, Albert J. Auguste, Alan P. Dupuis, Gillian Eastwood, Hilda Guzman, Matthew A. Aliota, Lisa Cazares, Michael Ward, Vsevolod L. Popov, Loaiza JR., Scott C. Weaver, Laura Kramer, Robert B. Tesh, Gustavo Palacios 2016.
Isolation and characterization of a multicomponent insect virus with sequence homology to the family Flaviviridae.
Host specificity in a diverse Neotropical tick community. Parasites and Vectors, 9: 372.doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1655-6.
Helen J. Esser, Edward Allen Herre, Nico Blüthgen, Loaiza JR., Sergio Bermúdez, and Patrick A. Jansen 2016.
Host specificity in a diverse Neotropical tick community.
Molecular insights into Neotropical bird – tick ecological associations and the role of birds in tick-borne disease ecology. Plos One, 11(5): e0155989.
Miller JM, Esser HJ, Loaiza JR., Herre EA, Aguilar C, Quintero D, Alvarez E, Bermingham E 2016.
Molecular insights into Neotropical bird – tick ecological associations and the role of birds in tick-borne disease ecology.
Epidemic and non-epidemic hot spots of malaria transmission occur in indigenous comarcas of Panama. Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004718.
Lainhart William, Dutari LC, Rovira JR, Conn JE, Loaiza JR.† 2016.
Epidemic and non-epidemic hot spots of malaria transmission occur in indigenous comarcas of Panama.
An effective sampling tool for adult crab-hole inhabiting Deinocerites mosquitoes. Journal of Vector Ecology, doi: 10.1111/jvec.12214.
Betancourt Angie, Loaiza JR.† 2016.
An effective sampling tool for adult crab-hole inhabiting Deinocerites mosquitoes.
Enzootic arbovirus surveillance in forest habitat and phylogenetic characterization of novel isolates of Gamboa virus in Panamá. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 15-0445.
Eastwood Gillian, Loaiza JR., Pongsiri Montira, Sanjur Oris, Pecor James, Auguste J. Albert, Kramer LD 2016.
Enzootic arbovirus surveillance in forest habitat and phylogenetic characterization of novel isolates of Gamboa virus in Panamá.
Extreme mitogenomic divergence between two syntopic specimens of Arremon aurantiirostris (Aves: Emberizidae) in central Panama suggests possible cryptic species. Mitochondrial DNA, doi: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1066344.
Lopez Krisangel, Angeli Cody, Aguilar Celestino, Loaiza JR., De Leon Luis Fernando, McMillan W. Owen, and Miller Matthew J 2015.
Extreme mitogenomic divergence between two syntopic specimens of Arremon aurantiirostris (Aves: Emberizidae) in central Panama suggests possible cryptic species.
Geographic expansion of the invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus across Panama — Implications for control of dengue and Chikungunya viruses. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9(1): e0003383.
American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Panama: A historical review of entomological studies on anthropophilic Lutzomyia sand fly species. Parasites and Vectors 7:218.
Larissa C. Dutari, Loaiza JR., †. 2014.
A historical review of entomological studies on anthropophilic Lutzomyia sand fly species.
Extreme sequence divergence between mitochondrial genomes of two subspecies of White-breasted Wood-wren (Henicorhina leucosticta Cabanis, 1847) from western and central Panama. Mitochondrial DNA, doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.926503.
Aguilar Celestino, De Leon Luis, Loaiza JR., McMillan Owen, Matthew Miller. 2014.
Extreme sequence divergence between mitochondrial genomes of two subspecies of White-breasted Wood-wren (Henicorhina leucosticta Cabanis, 1847) from western and central Panama.
Mitochondrial genome organization of the Ochre-bellied Flycatcher, Mionectes oleagineus. Mitochondrial DNA, doi: 10.3109/19401736.2014.919491.
Loaiza JR., Aguilar Celestino, De Leon Luis, McMillan Owen, Matthew Miller. 2014.
Mitochondrial genome organization of the Ochre-bellied Flycatcher, Mionectes oleagineus.
Complete mitochondrial genomes of the New World jacanas: Jacana spinosa and Jacana jacana. Mitochondrial DNA, doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.915530.
Matthew Miller, Aguilar Celestino, De Leon Luis, Loaiza JR., McMillan Owen. 2014.
Complete mitochondrial genomes of the New World jacanas: Jacana spinosa and Jacana jacana.
Amblyomma tapirellum (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy. F1000Research published online.
Loaiza JR., † Miller MJ, Bermingham E, Sanjur OI, Jansen PA, Rovira JR, Alvarez E, Rodriguez E, Davis P, Dutari LC, Pecor J, Foley D, Radtke M, Pongsiri MJ. 2013.
Amblyomma tapirellum (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy.
Seasonal pattern of Avian Plasmodium infected mosquitoes and implications for parasite transmission in central Panama. Parasitology Research 112(11):3743-51.
Loaiza JR., † Miller MJ. 2013.
Seasonal pattern of Avian Plasmodium infected mosquitoes and implications for parasite transmission in central Panama.
Mosquito-host interactions during and after an outbreak of Equine Viral Encephalitis in eastern Panama. Plos One 8(12).
Navia-Gine W, Loaiza JR., Miller MJ. 2013.
Mosquito-host interactions during and after an outbreak of Equine Viral Encephalitis in eastern Panama.
Novel genetic diversity within An. punctimacula s.l.: Phylogenetic discrepancy between the Barcode cytochrome c oxidase I gene and the rDNA second internal transcribed spacer. Acta Tropica 128(1):61-9.
Loaiza JR., † Scott ME, Bermingham E, Sanjur OI, Rovira JR, Dutari LC, Linton YM, Bickersmith S, Conn JE. 2013.
Novel genetic diversity within An. punctimacula s.l.: Phylogenetic discrepancy between the Barcode cytochrome c oxidase I gene and the rDNA second internal transcribed spacer.
Phylogenetic relationships of the broadly distributed neotropical Anopheles triannulatus complex. Parasites and Vectors 6:47.
Moreno M, Bickersmith S, Loaiza JR., Conn JE. 2013.
Phylogenetic relationships of the broadly distributed neotropical Anopheles triannulatus complex.
Review of genetic diversity in malaria vectors (Culicidae: Anophelinae). Infection Genetics and Evolution 12(1):1-12.
Loaiza JR., † Bermingham E, Sanjur OI, Scott ME, Bickersmith SA, Conn JE. 2012.
Review of genetic diversity in malaria vectors (Culicidae: Anophelinae).
Towards a new role for vector systematics in parasite control. Parasitology 138(13):1723-9.
Zarowiecki M, Loaiza JR., Conn JE. 2011.
Towards a new role for vector systematics in parasite control.
Confirmation of Anopheles (Anopheles) calderoni Wilkerson, 1991 (Diptera: Culicidae) in Colombia and Ecuador through molecular and morphological correlation with topotypic material. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 105(8): 1001-1009.
Gonzalez R, Carrejo N, Wilkerson R, Alarcon J, Bhatia R, Loaiza JR., Linton Y. 2010.
Confirmation of Anopheles (Anopheles) calderoni Wilkerson, 1991 (Diptera: Culicidae) in Colombia and Ecuador through molecular and morphological correlation with topotypic material.
Late Pleistocene environmental changes lead to unstable demography and population divergence of Anopheles albimanus in the northern Neotropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57:1341-1346.
Loaiza JR., † Scott M, Bermingham E, Sanjur OI, Wilkerson RC, Rovira J, Gutierrez LA, Correa MA, Birnberg L, Grijalva M, Bickersmith SA, Conn JE. 2010b.
Late Pleistocene environmental changes lead to unstable demography and population divergence of Anopheles albimanus in the northern Neotropics.
Evidence for Pleistocene Population Divergence and Expansion of Anopheles albimanus in Southern Central America. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 82(1): 156-164.
Loaiza JR., † Scott ME, Bermingham E, Rovira J, Conn JE. 2010a.
Evidence for Pleistocene Population Divergence and Expansion of Anopheles albimanus in Southern Central America.
Short report: Anopheles darlingi in Panama. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 81: 23-26.
Loaiza JR., † Scott ME, Bermingham E, Rovira J, Sanjur O, Conn JE. 2009.
Short report: Anopheles darlingi in Panama.
Species composition and distribution of adult Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) in Panama. Journal of Medical Entomology 45(5): 841-851.
Loaiza JR., † Bermingham E, Scott ME, Rovira J, Conn JE. 2008.
Species composition and distribution of adult Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) in Panama.
Do mosquitoes filter the access of Plamodium cytochrome b lineages to an avian host? Molecular Ecology 17: 2552-2561.
Gager AB, Loaiza JR., Dearborns DC, Bermingham E. 2008.
Do mosquitoes filter the access of Plamodium cytochrome b lineages to an avian host?