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Brock, CM, Temeyer, KB, Tidwell, J, Yang, Y, Blandon, MA, Carreón-Camacho, D, Longnecker, MT, Almazán, C, Pérez de León, AA, Pietrantonio, PV. 2019. The leucokinin-like peptide receptor from the cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus microplus, is localized in the midgut periphery and receptor silencing with validated double-stranded RNAs causes a reproductive fitness cost. Int. J. Parasitol. DOI:10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.11.006
Calkins, TL, Tamborindeguy, C, Pietrantonio, PV. 2018. GPCR annotation, G proteins, and transcriptomics of fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) queen and worker brain: An improved view of signaling in an invasive superorganism. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.12.008
Pietrantonio, PV, Xiong, C, Nachman, RJ, Shen, Y. 2018. G protein-coupled receptors in arthropod vectors: omics and pharmacological approaches to elucidate ligand-receptor interactions and novel organismal functions. Curr Opin Insect Sci 29:12-20.DOI:10.1016/j.cois.2018.05.016
Xiong, C, Kaczmarek, K, Zabrocki, J, Pietrantonio, PV, Nachman, RJ. 2018. Evaluation of Aib and PEG-polymer insect kinin analogs on mosquito and tick GPCRs identifies potent new pest management tools with potentially enhanced biostability and bioavailability. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.DOI:10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.08.002
Travis L. Calkins; Mei‐Er Chen, Arinder K. Arora, Chloe Hawkings, Cecilia Tamborindeguy, Patricia V. Pietrantonio* 2018. Brain gene expression analyses in virgin and mated queens of fire ants reveal mating‐independent and socially regulated changes. Ecol Evol. 2018 Apr 2;8(8):4312-4327. DOI:10.1002/ece3.3976
Kwon H, Ali Agha M, Smith RC, Nachman RJ, Marion-Poll F, Pietrantonio PV. Leucokinin mimetic elicits aversive behavior in mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.) and inhibits the sugar taste neuron. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jun 21;113(25):6880-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1520404113. Epub 2016 Jun 6. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1520404113
Gulia-Nuss M, Nuss AB, Meyer JM, Sonenshine DE, Roe RM, Waterhouse RM, Sattelle DB, de la Fuente J, Ribeiro JM, Megy K, Thimmapuram J, Miller JR, Walenz BP, Koren S, Hostetler JB, Thiagarajan M, Joardar VS, Hannick LI, Bidwell S, Hammond MP, Young S, Zeng Q, Abrudan JL, Almeida FC, Ayllón N, Bhide K, Bissinger BW, Bonzon-Kulichenko E, Buckingham SD, Caffrey DR, Caimano MJ, Croset V, Driscoll T, Gilbert D, Gillespie JJ, Giraldo-Calderón GI, Grabowski JM, Jiang D, Khalil SM, Kim D, Kocan KM, Koči J, Kuhn RJ, Kurtti TJ, Lees K, Lang EG, Kennedy RC, Kwon H, Perera R, Qi Y, Radolf JD, Sakamoto JM, Sánchez-Gracia A, Severo MS, Silverman N, Šimo L, Tojo M, Tornador C, Van Zee JP, Vázquez J, Vieira FG, Villar M, Wespiser AR, Yang Y, Zhu J, Arensburger P, Pietrantonio PV, Barker SC, Shao R, Zdobnov EM, Hauser F, Grimmelikhuijzen CJ, Park Y, Rozas J, Benton R, Pedra JH, Nelson DR, Unger MF, Tubio JM, Tu Z, Robertson HM, Shumway M, Sutton G, Wortman JR, Lawson D, Wikel SK, Nene VM, Fraser CM, Collins FH, Birren B, Nelson KE,
Caler E, Hill CA. Genomic insights into the Ixodes scapularis tick vector of Lyme disease. Nat Commun. 2016 Feb 9;7:10507. DOI:10.1038/ncomms10507
Yang Y, Nachman RJ, Pietrantonio PV. Molecular and pharmacological characterization of the Chelicerata pyrokinin receptor from the southern cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2015 May;60:13-23. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2015.02.010. Epub 2015 Mar 4.
Bajracharya P, Lu H-L, Pietrantonio PV (2014) The Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren) Kept Y not F: Predicted sNPY Endogenous Ligands Deorphanize the Short NPF (sNPF) Receptor. PLoS ONE 9(10): e109590. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109590
Yang Y, Bajracharya P, Castillo P, Nachman RJ, Pietrantonio PV. Molecular and functional characterization of the first tick CAP2b (periviscerokinin) receptor from Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Acari: Ixodidae). Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2013 Dec 1;194:142-51. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.09.001. Epub 2013 Sep 17. PubMed PMID: 24055303.
Kwon H, Pietrantonio PV. Calcitonin receptor 1 (AedaeGPCRCAL1) hindgut expression and direct role in myotropic action in females of the mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.). Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2013 Jul;43(7):588-93. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2013.03.005. Epub 2013 Mar 22. PubMed PMID: 23523607.
Castillo P, Pietrantonio PV. Differences in sNPF Receptor-Expressing Neurons in Brains of Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren) Worker Subcastes: Indicators for Division of Labor and Nutritional Status? PLoS One. 2013 Dec 20;8(12):e83966. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083966. eCollection 2013. PubMed PMID: 24376775; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3869854.
Kwon H, Lu HL, Longnecker MT, Pietrantonio PV. Role in diuresis of a calcitonin receptor (GPRCAL1) expressed in a distal-proximal gradient in renal organs of the mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.). PLoS One. 2012;7(11):e50374. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050374. Epub 2012 Nov 29. PubMed PMID: 23209727; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3510207.
Kersch CN, Pietrantonio PV. Mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.) leucokinin receptor is critical for in vivo fluid excretion post blood feeding. FEBS Lett. 2011 Nov 16;585(22):3507-12. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.10.001. Epub 2011 Oct 15. PubMed PMID: 22019456.
H.-L. Lu, C. N. Kersch, S. Taneja-Bageshwar, Patricia V. Pietrantonio. 2011. A Calcium Bioluminescence Assay for Functional Analysis of Mosquito (Aedes aegypti) and Tick (Rhipicephalus microplus) G Protein-coupled Receptors. URL: http://www.jove.com/index/Details.stp?ID=2732
Lu HL, Pietrantonio PV. 2011. Insect insulin receptors: insights from sequence and caste expression analyses of two cloned hymenopteran insulin receptor cDNAs from the fire ant. Insect Mol Biol. 2011 Jul 29. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2011.01094.x.
Lu HL, Pietrantonio PV. 2011. Immunolocalization of the short neuropeptide F receptor in queen brains and ovaries of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren). BMC Neurosci. 2011 Jun 14;12:57. Highly Accessed.
Lu HL, Kersch C, Pietrantonio PV. 2011. The kinin receptor is expressed in the Malpighian tubule stellate cells in the mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.): a new model needed to explain ion transport? Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2011 Feb;41(2):135-40. Epub 2010 Nov 5.
Nachman RJ, Pietrantonio PV. Interaction of mimetic analogs of insect kinin neuropeptides with arthropod receptors. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010;692:27-48. Review.
Hopkins BW, Pietrantonio PV. The Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) voltage-gated sodium channel and mutations associated with pyrethroid resistance in field-collected adult males. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2010 May;40(5):385-93. Epub 2010 Mar 31.
Hopkins BW, Pietrantonio PV. Differential efficacy of three commonly used pyrethroids against laboratory and field-collected larvae and adults of Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and significance for pyrethroid resistance management. Pest Manag Sci. 2010 Feb;66(2):147-54.
Lu, H.-L.¶, B. Vinson, Pietrantonio, P.V.*. 2009. Oocyte membrane localization of vitellogenin receptor coincides with queen flying age and receptor silencing by RNAi disrupts egg formation in fire ant virgin queens. FEBS J. 2009 Jun;276(11):3110-23. Epub 2009 Apr 23.
Nachman RJ, Pietrantonio PV. Toward the development of novel pest management agents based upon insect kinin neuropeptide analogues. Coast GM. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Apr;1163:251-61. Review.
Taneja-Bageshwar S, Strey A, Isaac RE, Coast GM, Zubrzak P, Pietrantonio, P.V., 2008. Nachman RJ. Biostable agonists that match or exceed activity of native insect kinins on recombinant arthropod GPCRs. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2009 May 15;162(1):122-8. Epub 2008 Oct 19.
Jagge C.L.¶, Pietrantonio, P.V.* 2008. Diuretic hormone 44 receptor in Malpighian tubules of the mosquito Aedes aegypti: evidence for transcriptional regulation paralleling urination. Insect Mol Biol. 17(4):413-26.
Pietrantonio, P.V.*, T. A. Junek, R. Parker, D. Mott, K. Siders, N. Troxclair, J. Vargas-Camplis, J. K. Westbrook, and V. A. Vassiliou. 2007. Detection and Evolution of Resistance to the Pyrethroid Cypermethrin in Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) Populations in Texas. Environmental Entomology36(5):1174-88.
Pietrantonio, P.V.*, T.A. Junek, R. Parker, E. Bynum, G. Cronholm, G. Moore, D. Mott, C. Sansone, K. Siders, N. Troxclair. 2006. Monitoring for pyrethroid resistance in the bollworm (Helicoverpa zea) in Texas, 2005. Suggestions for resistance monitoring and collaborative research. Plant Health Progress, Accepted with editorial revisions July 10/06 (Online Journal of Plant Management Network) http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/sub/php/symposium/hzea/bollworm/
Taneja-Bageshwar†, S., A. Strey, P. Zubrzak, P.V. Pietrantonio* and R. Nachman*. 2006. Comparative structure-activity analysis of insect kinin core analogs on recombinant kinin receptors from Southern cattle tick Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) and mosquito Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). Archiv. Insect Biochem. Physiol. Special issue 62:128-140.
Chen, Mei-Er†, S.P. Holmes¶, and P.V. Pietrantonio. * 2006. Glucose transporter 8 (GLUT8) from the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Archiv. Insect Biochem Physiol. 62: 55-72.
Chen, Mei-Er† and P.V. Pietrantonio*. 2006. The short neuropeptide F-like receptor from the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren. Archiv. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 61:195-208.
Taneja-Bageshwar†, S., A. Strey, P. Zubrzak, P.V. Pietrantonio* and R. Nachman*. 2005. Structure-activity relationships for insect kinins on expressed receptors from a tick (Acari: Ixodidae) and a mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae). Pestycydy 3: 55-59 (Pesticides, Poland ISSN: 0208-8703; Institute of Industrial Organic Chemistry).
Neupert, S.*, R. Predel, W.K. Russell, R. Davies, P.V. Pietrantonio and R.J. Nachman. 2005. Identification of tick periviscerokinin, the first neurohormone of Ixodidae: single cell analysis by means of MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 338: 1860-1864.
Pietrantonio*, P. V., C. Jagge¶, S. Taneja-Bageshwar†, R.J. Nachman, and R. Barhoumi. 2005. The mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.) leucokinin receptor is a multiligand receptor for the three Aedes kinins. Insect Mol. Biol. 14: 55-67.
Chen¶, M.-E., D.K. Lewis, L.L. Keeley, and P.V. Pietrantonio*. 2004. cDNA cloning and transcriptional regulation of the vitellogenin receptor from the imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Mol. Biol. 13: 195-204.
Chen†, A., S.P. Holmes¶ and, P.V. Pietrantonio*. 2004. Molecular cloning and functional expression of a serotonin receptor from the Southern cattle tick, Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae). Insect Mol. Biol. 13: 45-54.
D.-W. Lee† and P.V. Pietrantonio*. 2003. In vitro expression and pharmacology of the 5-HT7-like receptor present in the mosquito Aedes aegypti tracheolar cells and hindgut-associated nerves. Insect Mol. Biol. 12: 561-569.
Bokonon-Ganta, A.H., J. Bernal*, P.V. Pietrantonio and M. Setamou. 2003. Survivorship and development of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on conventional and transgenic maize cultivars expressing Bacillus thuringiensis Cry9C and Cry1A(b) endotoxins. International J. Pest Management 49: 169-175.
Duchesne, L., J.-F. Hubert, J.M. Verbavatz, D. Thomas, and P.V. Pietrantonio*. 2003. Mosquito Aedes aegypti (Diptera, Culicidae) aquaporin present in tracheolar cells transports water, not glycerol, and forms orthogonal arrays in Xenopus oocyte membranes. Eur. J. Biochem. 270: 422-429.
Holmes¶, S.P., R. Barhoumi, R.J. Nachman, and P.V. Pietrantonio*. 2003. Functional analysis of a G protein-coupled receptor from the southern cattle tick Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) identifies it as the first arthropod myokinin receptor. Insect Mol. Biol. 12: 27- 38.
Pietrantonio*, P.V., S.P. Holmes¶, C. Jagge and S.K. Frazier¶. 2002. Cloning of troponin C and other gene fragments from the red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Southwestern Entomol. Suppl.25: 89-96.