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My latest for @vox.com: how the spread of Valley fever illustrates a bigger, ongoing, and growing crisis at the intersection of climate and public health
www.vox.com/future-perfe...

globally, there are ~3500 described mosquito species in the Culicidae family and many of these are important vectors of disease but only a small percentage have genomic resources. we are launching a pilot project to generate high quality reference genomes for 100 important mosquito species [1/3]

Thank you for the coverage! Excited that this work, in collaboration with @markcbitter.bsky.social and many others, is now out!

A new study led by #EnvironmentalHealth postdoc Lisa Couper finds #mosquitoes may genetically adapt to #ClimateChange more than expected. Her team's findings show increasing risk of #WestNileVirus, #Malaria & other diseases due to the insects' heat tolerance. #GlobalWarming ow.ly/Uzro50V3BRl

Excellent coverage of our recent work finding that mosquitoes may be able to adapt to warming! www.the-scientist.com/mosquitoes-a...

Thrilled to see this work, led by @lisacouper.bsky.social now out!
We quantified variation in thermal tolerance in the mosquito, Aedes sierrensis, to quantify how adaptation may alter disease vector distributions under warming. 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Rising temperatures are not slowing #mosquitoes down... A new study coauthored by Stanford's Lisa Couper and @stanfordwoods.bsky.social Erin Mordecai finds that mosquitoes -- and the diseases they carry -- can adapt to hotter temperatures. Read the study: bit.ly/3PqTNw8