@misc{henry_beaulieu_bradford_graves jr_2023, title={Embedded racism: Inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting health}, volume={11}, ISSN={["2050-6201"]}, DOI={10.1093/emph/eoad007}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={1}, journal={EVOLUTION MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH}, author={Henry, Paula Ivey and Beaulieu, Meredith R. Spence and Bradford, Angelle and Graves Jr, Joseph L.}, year={2023}, month={Jan}, pages={112–125} }
 @article{spence beaulieu_federico_reiskind_2020, title={Mosquito diversity and dog heartworm prevalence in suburban areas}, volume={13}, ISSN={["1756-3305"]}, DOI={10.1186/s13071-019-3874-0}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={1}, journal={PARASITES & VECTORS}, author={Spence Beaulieu, Meredith R. and Federico, Jennifer L. and Reiskind, Michael H.}, year={2020}, month={Jan} }
 @article{spence beaulieu_hopperstad_dunn_reiskind_2019, title={Simplification of vector communities during suburban succession}, volume={14}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215485}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0215485}, abstractNote={Suburbanization is happening rapidly on a global scale, resulting in changes to the species assemblages present in previously undeveloped areas of land. Community-level changes after anthropogenic land-use change have been studied in a variety of organisms, but the effects on arthropods of medical and veterinary importance remain poorly characterized. Shifts in diversity, abundance, and community composition of such arthropods, like mosquitoes, can significantly impact vector-borne disease dynamics due to varying vectorial capacity between different species. In light of these potential implications for vector-borne diseases, we investigated changes in mosquito species assemblage after suburbanization by sampling mosquitoes in neighborhoods of different ages in Wake County, North Carolina, US. We found that independent of housing density and socioeconomic status, mosquito diversity measures decreased as suburban neighborhoods aged. In the oldest neighborhoods, the mosquito assemblage reached a distinct suburban climax community dominated by the invasive, peridomestic container-breeding Aedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito. Aedes albopictus is a competent vector of many pathogens of human concern, and its dominance in suburban areas places it in close proximity with humans, allowing for heightened potential of host-vector interactions. While further research is necessary to explicitly characterize the effects of mosquito community simplification on vector-borne disease transmission in highly suburbanized areas, the current study demonstrates that suburbanization is disrupting mosquito communities so severely that they do not recover their diversity even 100 years after the initial disturbance. Our understanding of the community-level effects of anthropogenic land-use change on arthropod vectors will become increasingly important as we look to mitigate disease spread in a global landscape that is continually developed and altered by humans.}, number={5}, journal={PLOS ONE}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Spence Beaulieu, Meredith R. and Hopperstad, Kristen and Dunn, Robert R. and Reiskind, Michael H.}, editor={Leisnham, Paul T.Editor}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={e0215485} }
 @article{beaulieu_2019, title={The role of parasite manipulation in vector-borne diseases}, ISSN={["2050-6201"]}, DOI={10.1093/emph/eoz019}, abstractNote={The parasite manipulation hypothesis posits that parasites can purposefully alter host behaviours, increasing probability of transmission to an uninfected host [1]. An example is Toxoplasma gondii, where infected rodents become less predator averse, increasing the likelihood of infection reaching the feline host [2]. With other behavioural alterations, determination of whether effects are due to manipulations or are secondary outcomes of infection can be difficult [1]. Regardless, parasiteinduced changes represented in the manipulation hypothesis have implications for disease transmission. The hypothesis applies to vector-borne diseases, where parasite-induced changes in vector behaviour can increase transmission to the non-arthropod host. Here, a commonly affected behaviour is bloodfeeding. Arthropods must blood-feed twice to transmit pathogens, first on an infectious host then again on a susceptible host. This necessity for two blood meals to fulfil the parasite’s life cycle makes bloodfeeding a major component to vectorborne disease transmission [3]. EXAMPLES IN PUBLIC HEALTH}, number={1}, journal={EVOLUTION MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH}, author={Beaulieu, Meredith R. Spence}, year={2019}, pages={106–107} }