A complete list of publications from Dr. Ciota can be found here.

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Fay RL, Cruz-Loya M, Maffei JG, Mordecai EA, Ciota AT. Rising temperatures contribute to West Nile virus diversification and increased transmission potential. Sci Rep. 2025; Jul 11;15 (1): 25016. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-09284-5
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Lange RE, Pritchard JC, Jaeger AS, Bold TD, White JL, Dean AB, Hull RC, St George K, Dupuis AP, Aliota MT, Ciota AT. Differential Virulence and Host-Specific Fitness of Regionally Distinct Human-Derived Powassan Virus Lineage 2 Strains. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2025; May 13;113 (1): 106-116. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.24-0776
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Payne AF, Stout J, Dumoulin P, Locksmith T, Heberlein LA, Mitchell M, Rodriguez-Hilario A, Dupuis AP 2nd, Ciota AT. Lack of Competence of US Mosquito Species for Circulating Oropouche Virus. Emerg Infect Dis. 2025; Mar;31 (3): 619-621. DOI: 10.3201/eid3103.241886
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Fay RL, Cruz-Loya M, Keyel AC, Price DC, Zink SD, Mordecai EA, Ciota AT. Population-specific thermal responses contribute to regional variability in arbovirus transmission with changing climates. iScience. 2024; May 7;27 (6): 109934. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109934
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Lange RE, Prusinski MA, Dupuis AP 2nd, Ciota AT. Direct Evidence of Powassan Virus Vertical Transmission in Ixodes scapularis in Nature. Viruses. 2024; Mar 16;16 (3): 456. DOI: 10.3390/v16030456
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Dupuis AP 2nd, Prusinski MA, O'Connor C, Maffei JG, Koetzner CA, Zembsch TE, Zink SD, White AL, Santoriello MP, Romano CL, Xu G, Ribbe F, Campbell SR, Rich SM, Backenson PB, Kramer LD, Ciota AT. Bourbon Virus Transmission, New York, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023; Jan;29 (1): 145-148. DOI: 10.3201/eid2901.220283
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Ngo KA, Maffei JG, Koetzner CA, Zink SD, Payne AF, Backenson PB, White JL, Dupuis AP, Kramer LD, Ciota AT. Surveillance and Genetic Analysis of Jamestown Canyon Virus in New York State: 2001-2022. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023; Oct 9;109 (6): 1329-1332. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0392
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Caldwell HS, Kuo L, Pata JD, Dupuis AP 2nd, Arnold JJ, Yeager C, Stout J, Koetzner CA, Payne AF, Bialosuknia SM, Banker EM, Nolen TA, Cameron CE, Ciota AT. Maintenance of a host-specific minority mutation in the West Nile virus NS3. iScience. 2023; Jul 26;26 (8): 107468. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107468
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Lange RE, Dupuis AP 2nd, Ciota AT. Diversification of Bourbon Virus in New York State. Microorganisms. 2023; Jun 15;11 (6): 1590. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11061590
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Hill V, Koch RT, Bialosuknia SM, Ngo K, Zink SD, Koetzner CA, Maffei JG, Dupuis AP, Backenson PB, Oliver J, Bransfield AB, Misencik MJ, Petruff TA, Shepard JJ, Warren JL, Gill MS, Baele G, Vogels CBF, Gallagher G, Burns P, Hentoff A, Smole S, Brown C, Osborne M, Kramer LD, Armstrong PM, Ciota AT, Grubaugh ND. Dynamics of eastern equine encephalitis virus during the 2019 outbreak in the Northeast United States. Curr Biol. 2023; Jun 19;33 (12): 2515-2527.e6. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.047
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Bialosuknia SM, Dupuis Ii AP, Zink SD, Koetzner CA, Maffei JG, Owen JC, Landwerlen H, Kramer LD, Ciota AT. Adaptive evolution of West Nile virus facilitated increased transmissibility and prevalence in New York State. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2022; Dec;11 (1): 988-999. DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2022.2056521
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Dieme C, Ngo KA, Tyler S, Maffei JG, Zink SD, Dupuis AP, Koetzner CA, Shultis C, Stout J, Payne AF, Backenson PB, Kuo L, Drebot MA, Ciota AT, Kramer LD. Role of Anopheles Mosquitoes in Cache Valley Virus Lineage Displacement, New York, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; Feb;28 (2): 303-313. DOI: 10.3201/eid2802.203810
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Dupuis AP 2nd, Prusinski MA, O'Connor C, Maffei JG, Ngo KA, Koetzner CA, Santoriello MP, Romano CL, Xu G, Ribbe F, Campbell SR, Rich SM, Backenson PB, Kramer LD, Ciota AT. Heartland Virus Transmission, Suffolk County, New York, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021; Dec;27 (12): 3128-3132. DOI: 10.3201/eid2712.211426
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Onyango MG, Lange R, Bialosuknia S, Payne A, Mathias N, Kuo L, Vigneron A, Nag D, Kramer LD, Ciota AT. Zika virus and temperature modulate Elizabethkingia anophelis in Aedes albopictus. Parasit Vectors. 2021; Nov 12;14 (1): 573. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-021-05069-7
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Kuo L, Jaeger AS, Banker EM, Bialosuknia SM, Mathias N, Payne AF, Kramer LD, Aliota MT, Ciota AT. Reversion to ancestral Zika virus NS1 residues increases competence of Aedes albopictus. PLoS Pathog. 2020; Oct 14;16 (10): e1008951. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008951
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