Recent literature
Key publications on Culicoides and Culicoides-transmitted viruses by members of Culicoides.NET
Vector ecology, distribution and control
- Carpenter S, Mellor PS, Torr SJ (2008) Control techniques for Culicoides biting midges and their application in the UK and northwestern Palaearctic. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 22(3): 175-187. [abstract]
- Carpenter S, HL Lunt, D Arav, GJ Venter and PS Mellor (2006). Oral susceptibility to bluetongue virus of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the United Kingdom. Journal of Medical Entomology 43(1): 73-78. [full text]
Epidemiology of Culicoides-borne pathogens
- Gloster J, PS Mellor, L Burgin, C Sanders, and S Carpenter (2007) Will bluetongue come on the wind to the United Kingdom in 2007? Veterinary Record 160(13): 422-426. [abstract]
- Gubbins S, S Carpenter, M Baylis, JLN Wood, PS Mellor (2008). Assessing the risk of bluetongue to UK livestock: uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of a temperature-dependent model for the basic reproductive number. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, online 2007-07-17. [full text]
- Wilson A, Darpel K, Mellor PS (2008) Where does bluetongue go in the winter? PLoS Biology 6(8): e210. [full text]
- Wilson, A & Mellor, P (2008) Bluetongue in Europe: vectors, epidemiology and climate change. Parasitology Research 103 (Suppl. 1), 69-77. [abstract]
- Wilson A, S Carpenter, J Gloster, and PS Mellor (2007) Re-emergence of bluetongue in northern Europe in 2007. Veterinary Record 161, 482-6. [abstract]
