Vanessa White

An endangered flightless grasshopper with strong genetic structure maintains population genetic variation despite extensive habitat loss

Ary A Hoffmann, Vanessa L White, Moshe Jasper, Hiromi Yagui, Steve J Sinclair, Michael R Kearney

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Conservation research is dominated by vertebrate examples but the shorter generation times and high local population sizes of inve..

Establishment of Wolbachia Strain wAlbB in Malaysian Populations of Aedes aegypti for Dengue Control

Wasi A Nazni, Ary A Hoffmann, Ahmad NoorAfizah, Yoon Ling Cheong, Maria V Mancini, Nicholas Golding, Ghazali MR Kamarul, Mohd AK Arif, Hasim Thohir, Halim NurSyamimi, M Zabari ZatilAqmar, Mazni NurRuqqayah, Amran NorSyazwani, Azmi Faiz, Francis-Rudin MN Irfan, Subramaniam Rubaaini, Nasir Nuradila, Nasir MN Nizam, Saidin M Irwan, Nancy M Endersby-Harshman, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dengue has enormous health impacts globally. A novel approach to decrease dengue incidence involves the introduction of Wolbachia ..

No detectable effect of Wolbachia wMel on the prevalence and abundance of the RNA virome of Drosophila melanogaster

Mang Shi, Vanessa L White, Timothy Schlub, John-Sebastian Eden, Ary A Hoffmann, Edward C Holmes

Journal article  |  2018  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Wolbachia is an endosymbiotic bacterium that can block viral infections in arthropods, generating interest in its potential to con..

Wolbachia Infections in Aedes aegypti Differ Markedly in Their Response to Cyclical Heat Stress

Perran A Ross, Itsanun Wiwatanaratanabutr, Jason K Axford, Vanessa L White, Nancy M Endersby-Harshman, Ary A Hoffmann

Journal article  |  2017  |  PLOS PATHOGENS

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria are currently being released for arbovirus suppression around the world...

Predicting Wolbachia invasion dynamics in Aedes aegypti populations using models of density-dependent demographic traits

Penelope A Hancock, Vanessa L White, Scott A Ritchie, Ary A Hoffmann, H Charles J Godfray

Journal article  |  2016  |  BMC BIOLOGY

BACKGROUND: Arbovirus transmission by the mosquito Aedes aegypti can be reduced by the introduction and establishment of the endos..

Wolbachia infections in Aedes aegypti differ markedly in their response to cyclical heat stress

Perran Ross, Itsanun Wiwatanaratanabutr, Jason Axford, Vanessa White, Nancy Endersby-Harshman, Ary Hoffmann

Journal article  |  2016

Abstract Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria are currently being released for arbovirus suppression around t..

Density-dependent population dynamics in Aedes aegypti slow the spread of wMel Wolbachia

Penelope A Hancock, Vanessa L White, Ashley G Callahan, Charles HJ Godfray, Ary A Hoffmann, Scott A Ritchie

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Field release of endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria into wild Aedes aegypti mosquito populations is a promising strategy for biocont..

Aedes aegypti has spatially structured and seasonally stable populations in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Gordana Rasic, Nancy Endersby-Harshman, Warsito Tantowijoyo, Anjali Goundar, Vanessa White, Qiong Yang, Igor Filipovic, Petrina Johnson, Ary A Hoffmann, Eggi Arguni

Journal article  |  2015  |  PARASITES & VECTORS

BACKGROUND: Dengue fever, the most prevalent global arboviral disease, represents an important public health problem in Indonesia...

Association between Three Mutations, F1565C, V1023G and S996P, in the Voltage-Sensitive Sodium Channel Gene and Knockdown Resistance in Aedes aegypti from Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Juli Rochmijati Wuliandari, Siu Fai Lee, Vanessa Linley White, Warsito Tantowijoyo, Ary Anthony Hoffmann, Nancy Margaret Endersby-Harshman

Journal article  |  2015  |  INSECTS

Mutations in the voltage-sensitive sodium channel gene (Vssc) have been identified in Aedes aegypti and some have been associated ..

Developing Exon-Primed Intron-Crossing (EPIC) markers for population genetic studies in three Aedes disease vectors

Vanessa Linley White, Nancy Margaret Endersby, Janice Chan, Ary Anthony Hoffmann, Andrew Raymond Weeks

Journal article  |  2015  |  INSECT SCIENCE

Aedes aegypti, Aedes notoscriptus, and Aedes albopictus are important vectors of many arboviruses implicated in human disease such..