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Roe MT, Anadón JD, Burke RL. Survival rates of two nesting aggregations of diamondback terrapins at neighboring sites in New York City. J Wildl Manage 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.22257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Maria T. Roe
- Department of Biology Queens College, CUNY 65‐30 Kissena Boulevard Flushing NY 11367 USA
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- Department of Biology Queens College, CUNY 65‐30 Kissena Boulevard Flushing NY 11367 USA
- Biology Doctoral Program, Graduate Center City University of New York 365 5th Avenue, New York NY 10016 USA
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- Department of Biology Hofstra University 1000 Hempstead Turnpike Hempstead NY 11549 USA
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Duchak TJ, Burke RL. Hatching Failure in Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) Is Linked to Maternal Identity. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.836800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Wood turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) have been suffering range-wide population declines since the 1900s. Most monitoring efforts of these turtles involve population surveys to assess population size and viability but relatively few investigate rates of reproductive success. We collected four consecutive years (2013–2016) of wood turtle nesting data at a nesting site in northwestern New Jersey; population-level hatching success was unusually low. Furthermore, annual, intra-individual hatch rates and comparisons between natural and artificial incubation revealed that approximately half of all females usually produced clutches with low (<50%) hatch rates, regardless of incubation conditions. In contrast, the annual hatch rates of other females were either consistently high (>50%) or highly variable, ranging from 0 to 100%. Thus, some adult females are potentially making much larger contributions to the next generation than others. A repeatability analysis suggested that approximately 60% of the hatch rate variability observed in this population can be attributed to maternal identity. The remaining 40% may be attributed to the random environmental factors that are often theorized to be potential reasons for reduced hatch rates in turtle populations (e.g., unsuitable incubation conditions, flooding, desiccation, egg infertility, egg damage due to improper handling by researchers, root and insect predation, and microbial infection). The ultimate causes of this population’s hatching success variability are uncertain, but maternally-linked hatching failure in turtle populations could be associated with inbreeding, infertility, senescence, inadequate maternal diets, or environmental contamination. This study indicates that commonly suggested hypotheses for hatching failure, such as unsuitable incubation conditions or infertility, are unlikely to explain all of the hatch rate variability in some turtle populations. This study also reveals a cryptic conservation implication for vulnerable turtle populations: that the presence of many nesting females and nests does not necessarily assure high or even sustainable reproductive rates. When coupled with the high rates of nest predation and low juvenile survival rates that are common in most turtle populations, the exceedingly low hatch rates observed in this population suggest that recruitment in some turtle populations could be severely hindered even when nests are protected in the field or incubated in laboratory settings.
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Ginsberg HS, Hickling GJ, Pang G, Tsao JI, Fitzgerald M, Ross B, Rulison EL, Burke RL. Selective Host Attachment by Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae): Tick-Lizard Associations in the Southeastern United States. J Med Entomol 2022; 59:267-272. [PMID: 34718657 DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjab181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Questing behavior and host associations of immature blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis Say, from the southeastern United States are known to differ from those in the north. To elucidate these relationships we describe host associations of larval and nymphal I. scapularis from 8 lizard species sampled from 5 sites in the southeastern U.S. Larvae and nymphs attached in greater numbers to larger lizards than to smaller lizards, with differential levels of attachment to different lizard species. Blacklegged ticks are generally attached to skinks of the genus Plestiodon in greater numbers per unit lizard weight than to anoles (Anolis) or fence lizards (Sceloporus). The broad-headed skink, Plestiodon laticeps (Schneider), was a particularly important host for immature I. scapularis in our study and in several previous studies of tick-host associations in the southeast. Blacklegged ticks show selective attachment to Plestiodon lizard hosts in the southeast, but whether this results from behavioral host preferences or from ecological factors such as timing or microhabitat distributions of tick questing and host activity remains to be determined.
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- Howard S Ginsberg
- U.S. Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center, Field Station at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA
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Erazmus KR, Luiselli L, Burke RL. Salad with Clams: Prey Choice of an Intentionally Carnivorous Turtle. Northeast Nat (Steuben) 2021. [DOI: 10.1656/045.028.0412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation, and Cooperation, via G. Tomasi di Lampedusa 33, I-00144 Rome, Italy
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Rugiero L, Capula M, Dendi D, Petrozzi F, Fa JE, Funk SM, Burke RL, Luiselli L. Testing hypotheses of habitat use and temporal activity in relation to body plan in a Mediterranean lizard community. CAN J ZOOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2021-0083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A body plan (bauplan) is a suite of morphological characters shared by phylogenetically related animals at some point during their development. Despite its value, the bauplan concept is still rarely employed to characterize functional groups in community ecology. Here, we examine habitat use and spatio-temporal activity correlates of an entire seven-species community of lizards with different bauplans. The study was carried out in three locations in central Italy, encompassing a complex landscape with a patchy mosaic of a wide variety of habitats and microclimates. We tested four hypotheses regarding niche breadth, habitat use, and activity patterns. The first hypothesis, niche complementarity, in which species with similar body shapes should non-randomly partition available habitats, was not supported. By contrast, the hypotheses that larger bodied species should have a wider niche breadth, that slower species should inhabit habitat types of higher cover, and species inhabiting open sunny habitats should exhibit more seasonally variable activity patterns, were all supported by the data. Sympatric lizard communities in our study area were clearly organized by autecological constraints and eco-physiological attributes.
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- Lorenzo Rugiero
- Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, via G. Tomasi di Lampedusa 33, I-00144 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, via G. Tomasi di Lampedusa 33, I-00144 Rome, Italy
- Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, P.M.B. 5080, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- Department of Zoology, University of Lomé, Lomé, Togo
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- Department of Natural Sciences, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), CIFOR Headquarters, Bogor, 16115, Indonesia
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- Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, via G. Tomasi di Lampedusa 33, I-00144 Rome, Italy
- Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, P.M.B. 5080, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- Department of Zoology, University of Lomé, Lomé, Togo
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Ginsberg HS, Hickling GJ, Burke RL, Ogden NH, Beati L, LeBrun RA, Arsnoe IM, Gerhold R, Han S, Jackson K, Maestas L, Moody T, Pang G, Ross B, Rulison EL, Tsao JI. Correction: Why Lyme disease is common in the northern US, but rare in the south: The roles of host choice, host-seeking behavior, and tick density. PLoS Biol 2021; 19:e3001396. [PMID: 34495954 PMCID: PMC8425571 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001066.].
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Ginsberg HS, Hickling GJ, Burke RL, Ogden NH, Beati L, LeBrun RA, Arsnoe IM, Gerhold R, Han S, Jackson K, Maestas L, Moody T, Pang G, Ross B, Rulison EL, Tsao JI. Why Lyme disease is common in the northern US, but rare in the south: The roles of host choice, host-seeking behavior, and tick density. PLoS Biol 2021; 19:e3001066. [PMID: 33507921 PMCID: PMC7842935 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Lyme disease is common in the northeastern United States, but rare in the southeast, even though the tick vector is found in both regions. Infection prevalence of Lyme spirochetes in host-seeking ticks, an important component to the risk of Lyme disease, is also high in the northeast and northern midwest, but declines sharply in the south. As ticks must acquire Lyme spirochetes from infected vertebrate hosts, the role of wildlife species composition on Lyme disease risk has been a topic of lively academic discussion. We compared tick–vertebrate host interactions using standardized sampling methods among 8 sites scattered throughout the eastern US. Geographical trends in diversity of tick hosts are gradual and do not match the sharp decline in prevalence at southern sites, but tick–host associations show a clear shift from mammals in the north to reptiles in the south. Tick infection prevalence declines north to south largely because of high tick infestation of efficient spirochete reservoir hosts (rodents and shrews) in the north but not in the south. Minimal infestation of small mammals in the south results from strong selective attachment to lizards such as skinks (which are inefficient reservoirs for Lyme spirochetes) in the southern states. Selective host choice, along with latitudinal differences in tick host-seeking behavior and variations in tick densities, explains the geographic pattern of Lyme disease in the eastern US. Lyme disease is common in the northeastern United States, but rare in the southeast, even though the tick vector is found in both regions. This study shows that this is largely because the tick vectors attach abundantly to rodents (which are good hosts for the Lyme bacteria) in the north, and to lizards (which are relatively poor hosts for Lyme bacteria) in the south.
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- Howard S. Ginsberg
- US Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Woodward-PSE, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, United States of America
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- Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ste-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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- US National Tick Collection, Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, United States of America
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- Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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The island rule postulates that the special ecological conditions on islands, such as limited resource availability, can cause populations of large-bodied animals to evolve smaller sizes and small-bodied populations to evolve larger sizes. Although support for the island rule is well documented (with notable exceptions and debate) in mammals and birds, similar trends are poorly explored in ectothermic vertebrates. As part of a larger study investigating the ecology of Eastern Hog-nosed Snakes (Heterodon platirhinos Latreille, 1801), we compared the mean and maximum sizes of a population from a barrier island (∼4 000 ha) to snakes on an adjacent larger island (∼363 000 ha) and two mainland sites (450 total snakes across all study sites). We did not observe a difference between the small and the large islands, but we did find differences between the smallest island and the mainland. Female snakes on the barrier island were 8% smaller than those on the mainland, and the female from the largest barrier island was 35% smaller than the largest documented H. platirhinos. In addition, we found that males did not exhibit dwarfism. We hypothesize that the observed dwarfism is a result of limited availability of large prey items and recommend that future studies distinguish between sexes in their analyses.
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- John P. Vanek
- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549–1140, USA
- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549–1140, USA
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549–1140, USA
- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549–1140, USA
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Petrozzi F, Hema EM, Ségniagbeto GH, Amadi N, Akani GC, Burke RL, Chirio L, Luiselli L. Correlates of African Spurred Tortoise, Centrochelys sulcata, Occurrence in the West African Sahel. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2019. [DOI: 10.2744/ccb-1302.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Fabio Petrozzi
- Ufficio Tecnico di Ecologia Applicata Fano, via Edoardo Jenner 50, 00155 Rome, Italy []
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- Université Ouaga 1 Professeur Joseph Ki ZERBO/CUP-D, laboratoire de Biologie et Ecologie Animales, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso [; ]
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- Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, P.M.B. 5080 Nkpolu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria [; ]
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- Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, P.M.B. 5080 Nkpolu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria [; ]
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, New York 11549 USA []
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- University of Lome, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Zoology, B.P. 6057 Lomé, Togo []
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Erazmus KR, Figueras MP, Luiselli L, Burke RL. Do diets vary over large spatial or temporal ranges? A test using interannual and interpopulation data on Diamondback Terrapin ( Malaclemys terrapin) diets. CAN J ZOOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2018-0211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Animal diets may vary spatially or temporally as resource availability vary. Diets of species with extensive geographic ranges often span multiple habitats, thus their diets may vary accordingly. Temporal diet variation is rarely explored because most diet studies are short term; this is problematic for long-lived species where individuals may persist as prey availability changes. We analyzed diet variation in Diamondback Terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin (Schoepf, 1793)), which inhabits nearly 70 000 km of United States Atlantic coastline, spanning 16.5°N latitude and 27.4°W longitude and four Köppen climatic zones, and Bermuda. We explored spatially or temporally Diamondback Terrapin diet variation, including populations from Atlantic salt marshes, an Everglades mangrove swamp, the Texas Gulf Coast, and a Caribbean golf course pond. We found remarkably high levels of similarity, indicating that although diets vary according to local prey availability, they are broadly similar at lower taxonomic resolution. Even short-term studies may be sufficient to accurately characterize diets of Diamondback Terrapins. These results are surprising given the geographic range sampled in this study and indicate that Diamondback Terrapin diets are conservative, reflecting local prey availability. Such diets apparently allow Diamondback Terrapins to exploit their extensive range and may allow Diamondback terrapin populations to persist as local prey species wax and wane.
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- Kayleigh Rose Erazmus
- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549-1000, USA
- Biology Department, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 06825, USA
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- Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, via G. Tomasi di Lampedusa 33, I-00144 Rome, Italy
- Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, P.M.B. 5080, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- Department of Zoology, University of Lomé, Lomé, Togo
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549-1000, USA
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Affiliation(s)
- Russell L. Burke
- ; Museum of Zoology and Department of Biology; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor MI 481091079 USA
- ; School of Natural Resources and Environment; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor MI 48109-1115 USA
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- ; Museum of Zoology and Department of Biology; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor MI 481091079 USA
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Ogden NH, Pang G, Ginsberg HS, Hickling GJ, Burke RL, Beati L, Tsao JI. Evidence for Geographic Variation in Life-Cycle Processes Affecting Phenology of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in the United States. J Med Entomol 2018; 55:1386-1401. [PMID: 29986046 DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjy104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The seasonal activity pattern of immature Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae) varies geographically in the United States, which may affect the efficiency of transmission cycles of pathogens transmitted by this species. To study the factors that determine seasonality, a multiyear study at seven sites across the geographic range of I. scapularis systematically collected questing ticks by flagging/dragging, and feeding ticks by capture of their hosts. The observed phenology patterns were consistent with previous studies reporting geographic variation in seasonal tick activity. Predictions of seasonal activity for each site were obtained from an I. scapularis simulation model calibrated using contemporaneous weather data. A range of scenarios for life-cycle processes-including different regimes of temperature-independent behavioral and developmental diapause, variations in temperature-development rate relationships, and temperature-dependent tick activity-were used in model formulations. These formulations produced a range of simulations of seasonal activity for each site and were compared against the field observed tick data using negative binomial regression models. Best fit scenarios were chosen for each site on the basis of Akaike's information criterion and regression model parameters. This analysis suggests that temperature-independent diapause mechanisms explain some key observed variations in I. scapularis seasonality, and are responsible in part for geographic variations in I. scapularis seasonality in the United States. However, diapause appears to operate in idiosyncratic ways in different regions of the United States, so further studies on populations in different regions will be needed to enable predictive modeling of climatic and climate change effects on I. scapularis seasonal activity and pathogen transmission.
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- Nicholas H Ogden
- Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, St-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada
- South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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- USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Coastal Field Station, Kingston, RI
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- Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, TN
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- Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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Burke RL, Clendening B, Kanonik A. Long-term increases in clutch size in common snapping turtles ( Chelydra serpentina) and diamondback terrapins ( Malaclemys terrapin). J NAT HIST 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1483539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Russell L. Burke
- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA
- American Littoral Society, Northeast Chapter, Broad Channel, NY, USA
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- American Littoral Society, Northeast Chapter, Broad Channel, NY, USA
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Hattenrath-Lehmann TK, Ossiboff RJ, Burnell CA, Rauschenberg CD, Hynes K, Burke RL, Bunting EM, Durham K, Gobler CJ. The role of a PSP-producing Alexandrium bloom in an unprecedented diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) mortality event in Flanders Bay, New York, USA. Toxicon 2017; 129:36-43. [PMID: 28209476 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2017.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2016] [Revised: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 02/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) are a threatened or endangered species in much of their range along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Over an approximately three-week period from late April to mid-May 2015, hundreds of adult diamondback terrapins were found dead on the shores of Flanders Bay, Long Island, New York, USA. Concurrent with the mortality event, elevated densities of the paralytic shellfish toxin (PST)-producing dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense (>104 cells L-1) and high levels of PST in bivalves (maximal levels = 540 μg STX eq. 100 g-1 shellfish tissue) were observed in the Flanders Bay region, resulting in shellfish bed closures in regional tributaries. Gross and histologic postmortem examinations of terrapins revealed no physical trauma to individuals or a common, underlying disease process to explain the deaths. PST compounds (0.2-12.5 μg STX eq. 100 g-1) were present in various M. terrapin tissues collected over the duration of the mortality event. High-throughput sequencing revealed that the ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa, a PST vector) was present in the gastrointestinal tracks of all terrapin samples tested. While the potential of PST to cause mortality in chelonians has not been well-characterized, in the absence of other significant findings from necropsies and pathological analyses, we provide evidence that PST in shellfish was likely high enough to cause or contribute to the mortality in these small (<2.0 kg) animals.
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- Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Bigelow Analytical Services, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, 04544, USA
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- Bigelow Analytical Services, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, 04544, USA
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- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Wildlife Health Unit, Delmar, NY, 12054, USA
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- Hofstra University, Department of Biology, Hempstead, NY, 11549, USA
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- Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, Riverhead, NY, 11901, USA
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- Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Southampton, NY, 11968, USA.
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Duncan NP, Burke RL. Dispersal of Newly Emerged Diamond-Backed Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) Hatchlings at Jamaica Bay, New York. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2016. [DOI: 10.2744/ccb-1207.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Burke RL, Calle PP, Figueras MP, Green TM. Internal Body Temperatures of an Overwintering AdultTerrapene carolina(Eastern Box Turtle). Northeast Nat (Steuben) 2016. [DOI: 10.1656/045.023.0304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Chodkowski N, Williams JD, Burke RL. Field Surveys and Experimental Transmission of Pleurogonius malaclemys (Digenea: Pronocephalidae), an Intestinal Parasite of the Diamondback Terrapin Malaclemys terrapin. J Parasitol 2016; 102:410-8. [PMID: 27022856 DOI: 10.1645/14-624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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: Life history stages of Pleurogonius malaclemys were investigated in wild populations of the eastern mudsnail ( Ilyanassa obsoleta ) and diamondback terrapin ( Malaclemys terrapin ) in New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island between 2011 and 2015, and laboratory experiments investigating the settling preference of metacercarial cysts of P. malaclemys were conducted. Cysts of P. malaclemys were found on mudsnails on the north and south shores of Long Island, New York and in Rhode Island, approximately 280 km farther north than previously reported. The cysts were found on mudsnails year round, but cyst prevalence increased during the summer months, reaching maximum levels (∼70%) in November. Nearly 58% of Jamaica Bay, New York mudsnails had cysts; mean intensities were 2.63 cysts/mudsnail. Although cyst prevalence was high, only 11 mudsnails (0.28%) were found to have the internal redial stages of P. malaclemys, the stage of infection preceding external cysts. In addition to mudsnails, P. malaclemys could encyst on other biological substrates, including common terrapin prey species. The majority of wild adult terrapins from Stone Harbor, New Jersey were infected with the adult stage of P. malaclemys (80.30%, x¯ = 36.36 trematodes/terrapin, n = 66). Juvenile terrapins were experimentally infected with P. malaclemys and on average 22.5% of the consumed cysts successfully developed into adult trematodes. Studies on the life cycle of P. malaclemys are important because previous research has shown that the frequency of cysts of P. malaclemys on mudsnails can be used as an indirect measure of terrapin abundance.
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- Nicole Chodkowski
- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York 11549
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York 11549
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- Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York 11549
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Burke RL, Vargas M, Kanonik A. Pursuing Pepper Protection: Habanero Pepper Powder Does Not Reduce Raccoon Predation of Terrapin Nests. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2015. [DOI: 10.2744/ccb-1145.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Rulison EL, Kerr KT, Dyer MC, Han S, Burke RL, Tsao JI, Ginsberg HS. Minimal role of eastern fence lizards in Borrelia burgdorferi transmission in central New Jersey oak/pine woodlands. J Parasitol 2014; 100:578-82. [PMID: 24871138 DOI: 10.1645/14-503.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus , is widely distributed in eastern and central North America, ranging through areas with high levels of Lyme disease, as well as areas where Lyme disease is rare or absent. We studied the potential role of S. undulatus in transmission dynamics of Lyme spirochetes by sampling ticks from a variety of natural hosts at field sites in central New Jersey, and by testing the reservoir competence of S. undulatus for Borrelia burgdorferi in the laboratory. The infestation rate of ticks on fence lizards was extremely low (prevalence = 0.087, n = 23) compared to that on white-footed mice and other small mammals (prevalence = 0.53, n = 140). Of 159 nymphs that had fed as larvae on lizards that had previously been exposed to infected nymphs, none was infected with B. burgdorferi , compared with 79.9% of 209 nymphs that had fed as larvae on infected control mice. Simulations suggest that changes in the numbers of fence lizards in a natural habitat would have little effect on the infection rate of nymphal ticks with Lyme spirochetes. We conclude that in central New Jersey, S. undulatus plays a minimal role in the enzootic transmission cycle of Lyme spirochetes.
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- Eric L Rulison
- Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881
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Burke RL, Yurewicz KL. Influence of Size, Loss of Tail, and Burst Speed on Risk of Predation in the Banded Gecko ( Coleonyx variegatus). SOUTHWEST NAT 2012. [DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909-57.1.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Burke RL, Capitano W. Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina, Neonate Overwintering Ecology on Long Island, New York. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2011. [DOI: 10.2744/ccb-0855.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Burke RL, Capitano W. Nesting Ecology and Hatching Success of the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina, on Long Island, New York. The American Midland Naturalist 2011. [DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-165.1.137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Vecchio SD, Rugiero L, Luiselli L, Capula M, Burke RL. The turtle is in the details: microhabitat choice by Testudo hermanni is based on microscale plant distribution. ANIM BIOL 2011. [DOI: 10.1163/157075511x584209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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AbstractAlthough research on habitat use and habitat selection is essential for understanding population ecology and behavior, most such zoological studies have used only general habitat categories describing main habitat features instead of using modern plant ecological approaches. Here, we analyze Testudo hermanni microhabitat use at a coastal Mediterranean site in central Italy by modeling tortoise presence/absence at three spatial scales, using a logistic regression design and quantitative vegetation and plant community analysis to reveal correlates of tortoise habitat use on a fine scale. Our analyses showed that only a few plant species among the many present, and these on a very small spatial scale, are important determinants of tortoise presence and site selection. We also find that tortoises chose a paradoxical combination of high levels of bare soil and high total vegetation cover. This suggests that these tortoises are selecting small patches of habitat in a matrix of less desirable habitat. Our findings also have important implications for habitat management, in that increasing the number of habitat patches containing the few significant plants is likely to be desirable, whereas increasing the size of such patches is probably less relevant.
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- 5Centro di Studi Ambientali Demetra s. r. l., Roma, Italia;,
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- 2Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
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Burke RL, Barrera R, Kluchinsky T, Lewis M, Claborn DM. Examination of a miniaturized funnel trap for Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) larval sampling. J Med Entomol 2010; 47:1231-1234. [PMID: 21175077 PMCID: PMC4627480 DOI: 10.1603/me10112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Funnel traps are often used to sample for the presence of Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae) larvae in subterranean aquatic habitats. These traps are generally > or = 15 cm in diameter, making them impractical for use in subterranean sites that have narrow (10-cm) access ports, such as those in standard-sized septic tanks. Recent research indicates septic tanks may be important habitats for Ae. aegypti in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. To sample mosquito larval populations in these sites, a miniaturized funnel trap was necessary. This project describes the use of a smaller funnel trap for sampling larval populations. The effects of larval instar (third and fourth) and population density on trap efficacy also are examined. The trap detected larval presence 83% of the time at a larval density of 0.011 larvae per cm(2) and 100% of the time at densities > or = 0.022 larvae per cm(2). There was a significant trend of increasing percentage of recaptured larvae with higher larval population densities. Although the miniaturized funnel trap is less sensitive at detecting larval presence in low population densities, it may be useful for sampling aquatic environments with restricted access or shallow water, particularly in domestic septic tanks.
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- R L Burke
- Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Division of Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA.
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Filippi E, Rugiero L, Capula M, Burke RL, Luiselli L. Population and Thermal Ecology of Testudo hermanni hermanni in the Tolfa Mountains of Central Italy. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2010. [DOI: 10.2744/ccb-0776.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Burke RL, Felice SM, Sobel SG. Changes in Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Predation Behavior Affects Turtle (Malaclemys terrapin) Nest Census. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2009. [DOI: 10.2744/ccb-0775.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Ezaz T, Valenzuela N, Grützner F, Miura I, Georges A, Burke RL, Graves JAM. An XX/XY sex microchromosome system in a freshwater turtle, Chelodina longicollis (Testudines: Chelidae) with genetic sex determination. Chromosome Res 2006; 14:139-50. [PMID: 16544188 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1029-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2005] [Accepted: 12/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Heteromorphic sex chromosomes are rare in turtles, having been described in only four species. Like many turtle species, the Australian freshwater turtle Chelodina longicollis has genetic sex determination, but no distinguishable (heteromorphic) sex chromosomes were identified in a previous karyotyping study. We used comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to show that C. longicollis has an XX/XY system of chromosomal sex determination, involving a pair of microchromosomes. C-banding and reverse fluorescent staining also distinguished microchromosomes with different banding patterns in males and females in approximately 70% cells examined. GTG-banding did not reveal any heteromorphic chromosomes, and no replication asynchrony on the X or Y microchromosomes was observed using replication banding. We conclude that there is a very small sequence difference between X and Y chromosomes in this species, a difference that is consistently detectable only by high-resolution molecular cytogenetic techniques, such as CGH. This is the first time a pair of microchromosomes has been identified as the sex chromosomes in a turtle species.
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- Tariq Ezaz
- Comparative Genomics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, GPO box no. 475, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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Starkey DE, Shaffer HB, Burke RL, Forstner MRJ, Iverson JB, Janzen FJ, Rhodin AGJ, Ultsch GR. Molecular systematics, phylogeography, and the effects of Pleistocene glaciation in the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) complex. Evolution 2003; 57:119-28. [PMID: 12643572 DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00220.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The painted turtle, Chrysemys picta, is currently recognized as a continentally distributed polytypic species, ranging across North America from southern Canada to extreme northern Mexico. We analyzed variation in the rapidly evolving mitochondrial control region (CR) in 241 turtles from 117 localities across this range to examine whether the painted turtle represents a continentally distributed species based on molecular analysis. We found strong support for the novel hypothesis that C. p. dorsalis is the sister group to all remaining Chrysemys, with the remaining Chrysemys falling into a single, extremely wide-ranging and genetically undifferentiated species. Given our goal of an evolutionarily accurate taxonomy, we propose that two evolutionary lineages be recognized as species within Chrysemys: C. dorsalis (Agassiz 1857) in the southern Mississippi drainage region, and C. picta (Schneider 1783) from the rest of the range of the genus. Neither molecular nor recent morphological analyses argue for the hybrid origin of C. p. marginata as previously proposed. Within C. picta, we find evidence of at least two independent range expansions into previously glaciated regions of North America, one into New England and the other into the upper Midwest. We further find evidence of a massive extinction/recolonization event across the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain region encompassing over half the continental United States. The timing and extent of this colonization is consistent with a recently proposed regional aridification as the Laurentide ice sheets receded approximately 14,000 years ago, and we tentatively propose this paleoclimatological event as a major factor shaping genetic variation in Chrysemys.
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- David E Starkey
- Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
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Starkey DE, Shaffer HB, Burke RL, Forstner MRJ, Iverson JB, Janzen FJ, Rhodin AGJ, Ultsch GR. MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS, PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, AND THE EFFECTS OF PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION IN THE PAINTED TURTLE (CHRYSEMYS PICTA) COMPLEX. Evolution 2003. [DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2003)057[0119:mspate]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Burke RL, Hussain AA, Storey JM, Storey KB. Freeze Tolerance and Supercooling Ability in the Italian Wall Lizard, Podarcis sicula, Introduced to Long Island, New York. COPEIA 2002. [DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2002)002[0836:ftasai]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Paliard X, Doe B, Selby MJ, Hartog K, Lee AY, Burke RL, Walker CM. Induction of herpes simplex virus gB-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in TAP1-deficient mice by genetic immunization but not HSV infection. Virology 2001; 282:56-64. [PMID: 11259190 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2000.0829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Loading of most endogenous peptides on major histocompatibility complex class I molecules is conditional on their transport into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by the peptide transporter TAP. We describe an HSV-2/1 cross-reactive cytotoxic T-cell (CTL) epitope that is processed in a TAP1-independent manner in vivo following immunization of TAP1-/- mice with naked DNA or a recombinant vaccinia virus. These data indicated that TAP1-independent processing of endogenous proteins is sufficient to prime CTLs in vivo. TAP1-independent processing of this epitope was not due to ER targeting by signal sequences and exogenous loading of MHC-I molecules and was not influenced by the amino acids flanking this epitope. In contrast, TAP1-/- mice infected with HSV-2 or HSV-2 mutants did not mount a CTL response against this epitope.
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- X Paliard
- Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, California 94608, USA.
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Marshall GS, Li M, Stout GG, Louthan MV, Duliège AM, Burke RL, Hunt LA. Antibodies to the major linear neutralizing domains of cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B among natural seropositives and CMV subunit vaccine recipients. Viral Immunol 2001; 13:329-41. [PMID: 11016597 DOI: 10.1089/08828240050144653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The gB protein (gpUL55) of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) contains C-terminal (AD-1) and N-terminal (AD-2) linear immunodominant neutralizing domains. To measure antibodies to these epitopes, a modified protein (delta-gB) lacking heavily glycosylated intervening regions, the transmembrane domain, and the cytoplasmic domain, was expressed in recombinant baculovirus-infected cells. Eighty-six percent of 600 naturally CMV-seropositive individuals and 93% of 121 gB vaccine recipients had antibodies to delta-gB as detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The antibody level in vaccinees (median optical density [OD] = 1.73) exceeded that in natural seropositives (median OD = 0.94; p < .0001). Eleven percent of 95 natural seropositives and 7% of 120 gB vaccinees lacked A-gB antibodies but had neutralizing activity. Among subjects with delta-gB antibody, there were weak correlations between antibody level and neutralizing titer. These data suggest that antibodies to linear neutralizing gB domains are highly prevalent in naturally-infected individuals and regularly develop in gB vaccinees. However, for some individuals, discontinuous and/or linear epitopes not represented on delta-gB may be more important in the generation of neutralizing responses.
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- G S Marshall
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky 40202, USA.
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Bard F, Cannon C, Barbour R, Burke RL, Games D, Grajeda H, Guido T, Hu K, Huang J, Johnson-Wood K, Khan K, Kholodenko D, Lee M, Lieberburg I, Motter R, Nguyen M, Soriano F, Vasquez N, Weiss K, Welch B, Seubert P, Schenk D, Yednock T. Peripherally administered antibodies against amyloid beta-peptide enter the central nervous system and reduce pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease. Nat Med 2000; 6:916-9. [PMID: 10932230 DOI: 10.1038/78682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1458] [Impact Index Per Article: 60.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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One hallmark of Alzheimer disease is the accumulation of amyloid beta-peptide in the brain and its deposition as plaques. Mice transgenic for an amyloid beta precursor protein (APP) mini-gene driven by a platelet-derived (PD) growth factor promoter (PDAPP mice), which overexpress one of the disease-linked mutant forms of the human amyloid precursor protein, show many of the pathological features of Alzheimer disease, including extensive deposition of extracellular amyloid plaques, astrocytosis and neuritic dystrophy. Active immunization of PDAPP mice with human amyloid beta-peptide reduces plaque burden and its associated pathologies. Several hypotheses have been proposed regarding the mechanism of this response. Here we report that peripheral administration of antibodies against amyloid beta-peptide, was sufficient to reduce amyloid burden. Despite their relatively modest serum levels, the passively administered antibodies were able to enter the central nervous system, decorate plaques and induce clearance of preexisting amyloid. When examined in an ex vivo assay with sections of PDAPP or Alzheimer disease brain tissue, antibodies against amyloid beta-peptide triggered microglial cells to clear plaques through Fc receptor-mediated phagocytosis and subsequent peptide degradation. These results indicate that antibodies can cross the blood-brain barrier to act directly in the central nervous system and should be considered as a therapeutic approach for the treatment of Alzheimer disease and other neurological disorders.
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- F Bard
- Elan Pharmaceuticals, 800 Gateway Boulevard, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA.
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Kohl S, Charlebois ED, Sigouroudinia M, Goldbeck C, Hartog K, Sekulovich RE, Langenberg AG, Burke RL. Limited antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity antibody response induced by a herpes simplex virus type 2 subunit vaccine. J Infect Dis 2000; 181:335-9. [PMID: 10608784 DOI: 10.1086/315208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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The humoral response to a herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2 subunit vaccine containing recombinant glycoproteins B (gB2) and D (gD2) was tested in 3 groups of patients. These included HSV-seronegative, HSV-1-seropositive, and HSV-2-seropositive individuals. There were excellent antibody responses, as measured by gB2- and gD2-specific ELISAs and HSV-2 neutralization assays. However, in 2 HSV-2 antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) assays, there were relatively low antibody responses, especially among HSV-seronegative individuals. The low ADCC responses may be associated with the poor efficacy of this vaccine observed in clinical trials.
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- Department of Pediatrics, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
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McFarland W, Gwanzura L, Bassett MT, Machekano R, Latif AS, Ley C, Parsonnet J, Burke RL, Katzenstein D. Prevalence and incidence of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection among male Zimbabwean factory workers. J Infect Dis 1999; 180:1459-65. [PMID: 10515804 DOI: 10.1086/315076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Stored sera from a cohort of 2397 male factory workers in Harare, Zimbabwe, were screened for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2)-specific antibodies, to estimate the prevalence and incidence of genital herpes infection and to assess the relation between HSV-2 and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition. The prevalence of HSV-2 at enrollment was 39.8%. Correlates of HSV-2 seropositivity were HIV seropositivity, marital status, history of sexually transmitted disease (STD), older age, and higher income. The incidence of HSV-2 seroconversion during follow-up was 6.2/100 person-years. Correlates of HSV-2 seroconversion were enrollment while HIV-positive or seroconversion during follow-up, reported genital ulcer, history of STD, and number of sex partners. No evidence was found that HSV-2 infection was more likely to precede HIV or vice versa. HSV-2 and HIV seropositivity are strong markers for high-risk sexual behavior. Improved interventions targeted to populations in which the incidence of either viral infection is high are needed.
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- Director, HIV Seroepidemiology Unit, San Francisco Dept. of Public Health, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA.
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Frey SE, Harrison C, Pass RF, Yang E, Boken D, Sekulovich RE, Percell S, Izu AE, Hirabayashi S, Burke RL, Duliège AM. Effects of antigen dose and immunization regimens on antibody responses to a cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B subunit vaccine. J Infect Dis 1999; 180:1700-3. [PMID: 10515836 DOI: 10.1086/315060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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The purpose of this phase I study was to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of 2 doses of cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B (CMV gB)/MF59 vaccine at 3 different immunization schedules. Ninety-five volunteers were randomized to 6 groups. Antibodies to gB represent the majority of the CMV-specific neutralizing response. Three groups received 5 microgram of gB antigen combined with MF59 (a proprietary adjuvant) and 3 groups received a 30-microgram dose at 0, 1, and 2 months; 0, 1, and 4 months; or 0, 1, and 6 months. The vaccine was well tolerated, and there was no significant difference in antibody production between the 2 doses. The vaccine induced highest antibody titers when given at 0, 1, and 6 months. A low dose of CMV gB/MF59 may be the preferred dose for future studies.
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- S E Frey
- Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, St. Louis, MO 63110-0250, USA
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Pass RF, Duliegè AM, Boppana S, Sekulovich R, Percell S, Britt W, Burke RL. A subunit cytomegalovirus vaccine based on recombinant envelope glycoprotein B and a new adjuvant. J Infect Dis 1999; 180:970-5. [PMID: 10479120 DOI: 10.1086/315022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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A phase I randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was done with a cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine based on the envelope glycoprotein, gB, combined with a novel adjuvant, MF59. Participants received CMV gB vaccine with MF59 or CMV gB with alum or placebo at 0, 1, and 6 months. A fourth vaccine was given at 12 months to a subgroup. Levels of neutralizing antibody and antibody to gB 2 weeks after the third dose of vaccine exceeded those in seropositive control subjects. the formulation with MF59 was more immunogenic than that with alum. The optimal dose of gB appeared to be between 5 and 30 microg. The fourth dose produced a prompt rise in antibody level. There were no serious adverse events associated with vaccine. Local and systemic reactions were generally mild and, except for pain at the injection site, occurred with similar frequency in recipients of placebo and CMV vaccine.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
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Corey L, Langenberg AG, Ashley R, Sekulovich RE, Izu AE, Douglas JM, Handsfield HH, Warren T, Marr L, Tyring S, DiCarlo R, Adimora AA, Leone P, Dekker CL, Burke RL, Leong WP, Straus SE. Recombinant glycoprotein vaccine for the prevention of genital HSV-2 infection: two randomized controlled trials. Chiron HSV Vaccine Study Group. JAMA 1999; 282:331-40. [PMID: 10432030 DOI: 10.1001/jama.282.4.331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 324] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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CONTEXT In the last 3 decades, herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection seroprevalence and neonatal herpes have increased substantially. An effective vaccine for the prevention of genital herpes could help control this epidemic. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of a vaccine for prevention of HSV-2 infection. DESIGN Two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter trials of a recombinant subunit vaccine containing 30 microg each of 2 major HSV-2 surface glycoproteins (gB2 and gD2) against which neutralizing antibodies are directed, administered at months 0, 1, and 6. Control subjects were given a citrate buffer vehicle. Participants were followed up for 1 year after the third immunization. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We enrolled 2393 persons from December 10, 1993, to April 4, 1995, who were HSV-2 and human immunodeficiency virus seronegative. One trial with 18 centers enrolled 531 HSV-2-seronegative partners of HSV-2-infected persons; the other, with 22 centers, enrolled 1862 persons attending sexually transmitted disease clinics. A total of 2268 (94.8%) met inclusion criteria and were included in the analysis with 1135 randomized to placebo and 2012 to vaccine. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Time to acquisition of HSV-2 infection, defined by seroconversion or isolation of HSV-2 in culture during the study period by randomization group. RESULTS Time-to-event curves indicated a 50% lower acquisition rate among vaccine vs placebo recipients during the initial 5 months of the trial; however, overall vaccine efficacy was 9% (95% confidence interval, -29% to 36%). Acquisition rates of HSV-2 were 4.6 and 4.2 per 100 patient-years in the placebo and vaccine recipients, respectively (P =.58). Follow-up of vaccine recipients acquiring HSV-2 infection showed vaccination had no significant influence on duration of clinical first genital HSV-2 episodes (vaccine, median of 7.1 days; placebo, 6.5 days; P>.10) or subsequent frequency of reactivation (median monthly recurrence rate with vaccine, 0.2; with placebo, 0.3; P>.10). The vaccine induced high levels of HSV-2-specific neutralizing antibodies in vaccinated persons who did and did not develop genital herpes. CONCLUSIONS Efficient and sustained protection from sexual acquisition of HSV-2 infection will require more than high titers of specific neutralizing antibodies. Protection against sexually transmitted viruses involving exposure over a prolonged period will require a higher degree of vaccine efficacy than that achieved in this study.
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- L Corey
- University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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O'Hagan D, Goldbeck C, Ugozzoli M, Ott G, Burke RL. Intranasal immunization with recombinant gD2 reduces disease severity and mortality following genital challenge with herpes simplex virus type 2 in guinea pigs. Vaccine 1999; 17:2229-36. [PMID: 10403590 DOI: 10.1016/s0264-410x(99)00009-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The ability of a genetically detoxified mutant of heat labile enterotoxin (LTK63) to act as a mucosal adjuvant following intranasal immunization with recombinant gD2 has previously been reported in mice [Ugozzoli M, O'Hagan DT, Ott GS. Intranasal immunization of mice with herpes simplex virus type 2 recombinant gD2: the effect of adjuvants on mucosal and serum antibody responses. Immunol 1998;93:563-571.]. In the current studies, these observations were extended to the guinea pig model. Immunized guinea pigs were subsequently challenged intravaginally with HSV-2. Intranasal immunization with gD2 and LTK63 induced a significant reduction in disease severity and a reduction in mortality. However, only intramuscular immunization with a potent adjuvant (MF59) induced protection against the incidence of disease.
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- D O'Hagan
- Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
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Schmid DS, Brown DR, Nisenbaum R, Burke RL, Alexander D, Ashley R, Pellett PE, Reeves WC. Limits in reliability of glycoprotein G-based type-specific serologic assays for herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:376-9. [PMID: 9889222 PMCID: PMC84313 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.2.376-379.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Type-specific serologic assays for herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2 based on glycoprotein G-1 (gG-1) (HSV-1) and gG-2 (HSV-2) discriminate between antibodies against HSV-1 and HSV-2. We previously developed a Western blot assay using gG-1 and gG-2 expressed in baculovirus, performed extensive validation studies, and determined that it was both sensitive and specific for type-specific detection of HSV antibody. Here we report that, among a cohort of Thai military recruits, the serostatus of some individuals changed from positive to negative over time (6.6% among those ever positive for HSV-1, and 14.9% among those ever positive for HSV-2). We tested a subset of these specimens in three other gG-based assays: an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, an immunoblot strip assay, and a Western blot assay. Positive-to-negative shifts occurred in every assay; the frequency of the shifts ranged from 6. 1% to 21.2% of the specimen sets tested. There was only limited agreement among the assays concerning which individuals lost reactivity. This inaccuracy, exhibited by all of the assay protocols, was not predicted by validation studies employing specimens from cross-sectional studies and was most pronounced in HSV-2 testing. This argues for the inclusion of serial blood specimens in serologic assay validation procedures.
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- D S Schmid
- Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Viral Exanthems and Herpesviruses Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA.
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Nesburn AB, Burke RL, Ghiasi H, Slanina SM, Wechsler SL. Therapeutic periocular vaccination with a subunit vaccine induces higher levels of herpes simplex virus-specific tear secretory immunoglobulin A than systemic vaccination and provides protection against recurrent spontaneous ocular shedding of virus in latently infected rabbits. Virology 1998; 252:200-9. [PMID: 9875329 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1998.9454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Rabbits latently infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) were vaccinated either periocularly or systemically with a subunit vaccine (gB2 + gD2) plus adjuvant or adjuvant alone. Tear films were collected daily to measure recurrent infectious HSV-1 shedding. After systemic vaccination, the latently infected rabbits were not protected against recurrent ocular viral shedding (HSV-1-positive tear film cultures/total cultures) compared with either the systemic or periocular adjuvant controls (systemic vaccination = 49 of 972, 5.0%; systemic control = 46 of 972, 4.7%; periocular control = 43 of 930, 4.6%; P > 0.8). In contrast, latently infected rabbits vaccinated periocularly with the same vaccine had significantly reduced recurrent shedding (20 of 1026, 2.0%) compared with controls (P < 0.001) or systemic vaccination (P = 0.0002). Thus, recurrent HSV-1 shedding was significantly reduced by therapeutic local periocular subunit vaccination but not by therapeutic systemic subunit vaccination. Neutralizing antibody titers in the serum of systemically and ocularly vaccinated rabbits was similar. In contrast, HSV-specific tear secretory immunoglobulin A was significantly higher in the ocularly vaccinated group (P < 0.01). These results strongly suggest that in the rabbit, and presumably in humans, the local ocular (mucosal) immune response is much more important than the systemic immune response for therapeutic protection against recurrent ocular HSV-1. Thus development of a therapeutic vaccine against recurrent ocular HSV-1 should be directed at enhancing the local ocular (mucosal) immune response.
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- A B Nesburn
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Burns and Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
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Nesburn AB, Slanina S, Burke RL, Ghiasi H, Bahri S, Wechsler SL. Local periocular vaccination protects against eye disease more effectively than systemic vaccination following primary ocular herpes simplex virus infection in rabbits. J Virol 1998; 72:7715-21. [PMID: 9733807 PMCID: PMC110076 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.10.7715-7721.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vaccination of experimental animals can provide efficient protection against ocular herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) challenge. Although it is suspected that local immune responses are important in protection against ocular HSV-1 infection, no definitive studies have been done to determine if local ocular vaccination would produce more efficacious protection against HSV-1 ocular challenge than systemic vaccination. To address this question, we vaccinated groups of rabbits either systemically or periocularly with recombinant HSV-2 glycoproteins B (gB2) and D (gD2) in MF59 emulsion or with live KOS (a nonneurovirulent strain of HSV-1). Three weeks after the final vaccination, all eyes were challenged with McKrae (a virulent, eye disease-producing strain of HSV-1). Systemic vaccination with either HSV-1 KOS or gB2/gD2 in MF59 did not provide significant protection against any of the four eye disease parameters measured (conjunctivitis, iritis, epithelial keratitis, and corneal clouding). In contrast, periocular vaccination with gB2/gD2 in MF59 provided significant protection against conjunctivitis and iritis, while ocular vaccination with live HSV-1 KOS provided significant protection against all four parameters. Thus, local ocular vaccination provided better protection than systemic vaccination against eye disease following ocular HSV-1 infection. Since local vaccination should produce a stronger local immune response than systemic vaccination, these results suggest that the local ocular immune response is very important in protecting against eye disease due to primary HSV-1 infection. Thus, for clinical protection against primary HSV-1-induced corneal disease, a local ocular vaccine may prove more effective than systemic vaccination.
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- A B Nesburn
- Ophthalmology Research Laboratories, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Terhune SS, Coleman KT, Sekulovich R, Burke RL, Spear PG. Limited variability of glycoprotein gene sequences and neutralizing targets in herpes simplex virus type 2 isolates and stability on passage in cell culture. J Infect Dis 1998; 178:8-15. [PMID: 9652417 DOI: 10.1086/515590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Nucleotide sequence analyses of polymerase chain reaction-amplified genes were performed to determine whether adaptation of herpes simplex virus type 2 to replication in cultured cells or in internal organs during neonatal disseminated disease results in selection of variants with altered forms of three glycoproteins (gB, gC, or gD) that influence virus entry into cells. No variations in sequence were noted as a consequence of in vitro passage or replication in different organs. Five viruses from different subjects differed with respect to gB, gC, and gD gene sequences, expressing four distinct forms of gB, three of gC, and two of gD. These differences did not confer resistance to neutralization by guinea pig or human antisera from subjects immunized with recombinant gB or gD vaccines and may not be consequential for vaccine development.
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- S S Terhune
- Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Ashley RL, Crisostomo FM, Doss M, Sekulovich RE, Burke RL, Shaughnessy M, Corey L, Polissar NL, Langenberg AG. Cervical antibody responses to a herpes simplex virus type 2 glycoprotein subunit vaccine. J Infect Dis 1998; 178:1-7. [PMID: 9652416 DOI: 10.1086/515611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Effective vaccines against genital herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) may need to induce genital tract immune responses. To determine local antibody responses to HSV-2 glycoproteins gB2 and gD2 in an intramuscular subunit vaccine, cervical secretions from HSV-seronegative women and HSV-1-seropositive women were tested for IgG and IgA to gB2 and gD2 by enhanced chemiluminescence Western blot. Most (94%) of the seronegative subjects developed cervical IgG to gB2, IgG to gD2, and IgA to gB2; 72% developed IgA to gD2. All HSV-1-seropositive subjects had cervical IgG responses to vaccine gB2 and gD2, 85% had IgA responses to gB2, and 50% had IgA responses to gD2. Responses were more rapid and titers more consistently sustained in the HSV-1-seropositive women. Further, vaccination resulted in cervical IgG and IgA titers comparable to those to HSV-2 gB2 and gD2 in response to recurrent HSV-2 genital infection.
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- R L Ashley
- University of Washington and The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistical Consulting, Seattle 98105, USA
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Nesburn AB, Burke RL, Ghiasi H, Slanina SM, Wechsler SL. A therapeutic vaccine that reduces recurrent herpes simplex virus type 1 corneal disease. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1998; 39:1163-70. [PMID: 9620075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To investigate the therapeutic efficacy of periocular vaccination with herpes simplex virus (HSV) recombinant glycoprotein D from HSV-1 (gD1) or HSV-2 (gD2) in decreasing HSV-induced recurrent dendritic keratitis and HSV-induced recurrent ocular shedding in rabbits latently infected with HSV-1. METHODS Rabbits latently infected with HSV-1 were vaccinated periocularly (by subconjunctival injection) with gD1 and adjuvant, gD2 and adjuvant, or adjuvant alone. Eyes were examined daily for 49 days for recurrent herpetic keratitis and for recurrent infectious HSV-1 shedding. RESULTS In both vaccinated groups, a significantly decreased number of eyes exhibited recurrences of herpetic keratitis compared with recurrences in adjuvant-treated control eyes (gD1 group, 27/1372, [2%]; gD2 group, 24/1274, [2%]; and control, 54/1274 [4%]; P < 0.005). Eyes in the gD1-vaccinated group (44/1308 [3.4%]; P = 0.01), but not those in the gD2-vaccinated group (71/1274 [5.6%]; P = 0.93), had significantly decreased viral shedding (positive cultures compared with total cultures) compared with eyes in the adjuvant-treated control group (69 of 1275 [5.4%]). CONCLUSIONS Recurrent HSV-1 corneal disease was significantly reduced by therapeutic local periocular vaccination. The vaccine may be more efficacious against HSV-1-induced recurrent corneal disease than against recurrent HSV-1 ocular shedding. Its efficacy against corneal disease appeared to be longer lasting than its efficacy against recurrent spontaneous shedding. The heterotypic gD2 vaccine was as efficacious as the homotypic gD1 vaccine against recurrent corneal disease, whereas the homotypic vaccine was much more efficacious than the heterotypic vaccine against recurrent HSV-1 shedding. This is the first report in any animal model of a successful therapeutic vaccine against recurrent HSV-1-induced corneal disease. These results support the concept that development of a therapeutic vaccine for ocular HSV-1 recurrence in humans may be possible.
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MESH Headings
- Acetylmuramyl-Alanyl-Isoglutamine/analogs & derivatives
- Acetylmuramyl-Alanyl-Isoglutamine/immunology
- Adjuvants, Immunologic
- Animals
- Cornea/virology
- Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral
- Female
- Herpesvirus 1, Human/immunology
- Herpesvirus 1, Human/isolation & purification
- Herpesvirus 2, Human/immunology
- Herpesvirus 2, Human/isolation & purification
- Keratitis, Dendritic/immunology
- Keratitis, Dendritic/prevention & control
- Keratitis, Dendritic/virology
- Phosphatidylethanolamines/immunology
- Rabbits
- Recurrence
- Skin/virology
- Tears/virology
- Vaccination
- Vaccines, DNA/administration & dosage
- Viral Envelope Proteins/immunology
- Viral Vaccines/administration & dosage
- Virus Shedding
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- A B Nesburn
- Ophthalmology Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Burns and Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
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Gwanzura L, McFarland W, Alexander D, Burke RL, Katzenstein D. Association between human immunodeficiency virus and herpes simplex virus type 2 seropositivity among male factory workers in Zimbabwe. J Infect Dis 1998; 177:481-4. [PMID: 9466543 DOI: 10.1086/517381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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To determine the seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), to identify correlates of infection, and to describe the correlation with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositivity, 224 HIV-negative and 191 HIV-positive male factory workers in Zimbabwe were screened for HSV-2-specific antibodies. HSV-2 seroprevalence was 35.7% among HIV-negative subjects and 82.7% among HIV-positive subjects. The weighted estimate of HSV-2 seroprevalence in this population is 44.6%. The correlation between HIV and HSV-2 remained significant after controlling for multiple sex partners, paying for sex, and history of sexually transmitted disease (adjusted odds ratio, 8.0; 95% confidence interval, 4.8-13.1). If the association between HSV-2 and HIV is causal, then the high seroprevalence of HIV and HSV-2 suggests that suppressive HSV-2 treatment should be considered as a strategy to reduce HIV transmission in this population. HSV-2 seroconversion may be a suitable surrogate end point to evaluate HIV prevention interventions.
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- L Gwanzura
- Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare
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