KERRI COON | Vector Biology & Microbiology Lab
DEPARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

PUBLICATIONS

Preprints

  1. Foo, A., Brettell, L.E., Nichols, H.L., 2022 UW-Madison Capstone in Microbiology Students, Medina Munoz, M., Lysne, J., Dhokiya, V., Hoque, A.F., Brackney, D.E., Caragata, E.P., Hutchinson, M., 2023. Establishment and comparative genomics of a high-quality collection of mosquito-associated bacterial isolates—MosAIC (Mosquito-Associated Isolate Collection). bioRxiv, pp.2023-10. Link

Research publications

  1. Sommer, A.J., Kettner, J.E., Coon, K.L., 2024. Stable flies are bona fide carriers of mastitis-associated bacteria. mSphere, pp.e00336-24. ASM Press Release
  2. Arellano, A.A., Young, E.B., Coon, K.L., 2024. An inquiline mosquito modulates microbial diversity and function in an aquatic microecosystem. Molecular Ecology, 33(7), p.e17314.
  3. Hegde, S., Brettell, L.E., Quek, S., Etebari, K., Saldaña, M.A., Asgari, S., Coon, K.L., Heinz, E., Hughes, G.L., 2024. Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field‐caught or laboratory‐reared mosquitoes. Environmental Microbiology, 26(2), p.e16576.
  4. Kang, Z., Martinson, V.G., Wang, Y., Coon, K.L., Valzania, L. and Strand, M.R., 2024. Increased environmental microbial diversity reduces the disease risk of a mosquitocidal pathogen. Mbio, 15(1), pp.e02726-23.
  5. Zhao, S.Y., Hughes, G.L., Coon, K.L., 2023. A cryopreservation method to recover laboratory-and field-derived bacterial communities from mosquito larval habitats. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17(4), p.e0011234.
  6. Coon, K.L., Hegde, S., Hughes, G.L., 2022. Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes. Microbiome, 10(1), p.58.
  7. Arellano, A.A. & Coon, K.L., 2022. Bacterial communities in carnivorous pitcher plants colonize and persist in inquiline mosquitoes. Animal Microbiome, 4(1), p.13.
  8. Tawidian, P., Coon, K.L., Jumpponen, A., Cohnstaedt, L.W. and Michel, K., 2021. Host-environment interplay shapes fungal diversity in mosquitoes. Msphere, 6(5), pp.10-1128.
  9. Coon, K.L., Valzania, L., Brown, M.R., Strand, M.R. 2020. Predaceous Toxorhynchites mosquitoes require a living gut microbiota to develop. Proc. R. Soc. B. 287(1919):20192705. (Selected for cover)
  10. Raymann, K., Coon, K.L., Shaffer, Z., Salisbury, S., Moran, N.A. 2018. Pathogenicity of Serratia marcescens strains in honey bees. mBio 9(5):e01649-18.
  11. Valzania, L., Martinson, V.E., Harrison, R., Boyd, B., Coon, K.L., Brown, M.R., Strand, M.R. 2018. Both living bacteria and eukaryotes in the mosquito gut promote growth of larvae. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis. 12(7):e0006638.
  12. Valzania, L., Coon, K.L., Vogel, K.J., Brown, M.R., Strand, M.R. 2018. Hypoxia-induced transcription factor signaling is essential for larval growth of the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 115(3):457-65.
  13. Coon, K.L., Valzania, L., McKinney, D.A., Vogel, K.J., Brown, M.R., Strand, M. R. 2017. Bacteria-mediated hypoxia functions as a signal for mosquito development. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114(27):E5362-9.
  14. Vogel, K.J., Valzania, L., Coon, K.L., Brown, M.R., Strand, M.R. 2017. Transcriptome sequencing reveals large-scale changes in axenic Aedes aegypti larvae. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis. 11(1):e0005273.
  15. Coon, K.L., Brown, M.R., Strand, M.R. 2016. Mosquitoes host communities of bacteria that are essential for development but vary greatly between local habitats. Mol. Ecol. 25(22):5806-26.
  16. Coon, K.L., Brown, M.R., Strand, M.R. 2016. Gut bacteria differentially affect egg production in the anautogenous mosquito Aedes aegypti and facultatively autogenous mosquito Aedes atropalpus (Diptera: Culicidae). Parasit. Vectors 9(1):375.
  17. Coon, K.L., Vogel, K.J., Brown, M.R., Strand, M.R. 2014. Mosquitoes rely on their gut microbiota for development. Mol. Ecol. 23(11):2727-39.

Book Chapters & Reviews

  1. Arellano, A.A., Sommer, A.J., Coon, K.L., 2023. Beyond canonical models: why a broader understanding of Diptera-microbiota interactions is essential for vector-borne disease control. Evolutionary ecology, 37(1), pp.165-188.
  2. Cansado-Utrilla, C., Zhao, S.Y., McCall, P., Coon, K.L., Hughes, G.L. 2021. The microbiome and mosquito vectorial capacity: Rich potential for discovery and translation. Microbiome 9:111.
  3. Coon, K.L., Strand, M.R. 2021. Gut microbiome assembly and function in mosquitoes. In Drake, J.M., Bonsall, M.B., Strand, M.R. (Eds.), Population Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases. Oxford University Press, pp. 227-43.
  4. Vogel, K.J., Coon, K.L. 2020. Functions and mechanisms of symbionts of insect disease vectors. In K.M. Oliver, J.A. Russell (Eds.), Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 58: Mechanisms Underlying Microbial Symbiosis, pp. 233-75. Academic Press, Cambridge, MA USA.

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