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Johnalyn M Gordon

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Gordon J, Sierras A, Jackson D, Principato S, DeVries Z
J Econ Entomol . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39854194
German cockroaches (Blattella germanica (L.)) are a persistent pest in affordable housing and studies indicate that residents implement control on their own to deal with cockroaches within their homes. While...
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Gordon J, Eva M, Gaire S, Appel A, DeVries Z
J Econ Entomol . 2024 Aug; 117(5):2051-2059. PMID: 39140374
The German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Blattodea: Ectobiidae), is a ubiquitous pest in affordable housing. They represent a major threat to human health due to their contribution of asthma-exacerbating allergens...
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Gordon J, DeVries Z
Sci Rep . 2024 Mar; 14(1):7281. PMID: 38538827
Tropomyosin is a muscle contraction protein documented across all animal life. Despite its ubiquity, its unique structure in invertebrates leads to allergic responses in humans that vertebrate tropomyosin does not....
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Gordon J, Santangelo R, Gonzalez-Morales M, Menechella M, Schal C, DeVries Z
Sci Total Environ . 2023 Mar; 880:163180. PMID: 37001661
Histamine is a component of the bed bug aggregation pheromone. It was recently identified as an environmental contaminant in homes with active bed bug infestations, posing a potential health risk...
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Tong R, Patel J, Gordon J, Lee S, Chouvenc T, Su N
Environ Entomol . 2023 Feb; 52(2):254-258. PMID: 36773009
Wood-feeding termites have a nitrogen-poor diet and have therefore evolved nitrogen conservation strategies. However, termite workers molt periodically, and throughout the lifetime of a colony, millions of exuviae, a nitrogen-rich...
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Gordon J, Sobotnik J, Chouvenc T
Ecol Evol . 2020 Oct; 10(18):10095-10104. PMID: 33005366
Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) have, in insects, important physiological and ecological functions, such as protection against desiccation and as semiochemicals in social taxa, including termites. CHCs are, in termites, known to...
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Halbritter D, Gordon J, Keacher K, Avery M, Daniels J
Insects . 2018 Nov; 9(4). PMID: 30380597
Some taxa have adopted the strategy of mimicry to protect themselves from predation. Butterflies are some of the best representatives used to study mimicry, with the monarch butterfly, (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)...
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Halbritter D, Willett D, Gordon J, Stelinski L, Daniels J
Environ Entomol . 2018 Apr; 47(3):646-653. PMID: 29617751
Specialized herbivorous insects have the ability to transition between host plant taxa, and considering the co-evolutionary history between plants and the organisms utilizing them is important to understanding plant insect...