J A Yoder

Summary

Affiliation: Wittenberg University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Allergenicity of the Madagascar hissing cockroach
    Marjorie S Morgan
    Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA
    Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 98:258-61. 2007
  2. ncbi An endosymbiotic conidial fungus, Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, protects the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, from desiccation imposed by an entomopathogenic fungus
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Invertebr Pathol 97:119-27. 2008
  3. ncbi Developmental profiles in tick water balance with a focus on the new Rocky Mountain spotted fever vector, Rhipicephalus sanguineus
    J A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio 45501, USA
    Med Vet Entomol 20:365-72. 2006
  4. ncbi Failure by engorged stages of the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, to react to assembly pheromone, guanine and uric acid
    J A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA
    Med Vet Entomol 22:135-9. 2008
  5. ncbi Role of permanent host association with the Madagascar hissing-cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa, on the developmental water requirements of the mite, Gromphadorholaelaps schaeferi
    J A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Comp Physiol B 179:729-36. 2009
  6. ncbi High temperature effects on water loss and survival examining the hardiness of female adults of the spider beetles, Mezium affine and Gibbium aequinoctiale
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Ward Street at North Wittenberg Avenue, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Insect Sci 9:1-8. 2009
  7. ncbi The pheromone of the cave cricket, Hadenoecus cumberlandicus, causes cricket aggregation but does not attract the co-distributed predatory spider, Meta ovalis
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Insect Sci 10:47. 2010
  8. ncbi Water relations in eggs of the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, with experimental work on the capacity for water vapor absorption
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    Exp Appl Acarol 33:235-42. 2004
  9. ncbi Internal and external mycoflora of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae), and its ecological implications
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Undergraduate Research Program, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio 45501, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 69:4994-6. 2003
  10. ncbi Increased cave dwelling reduces the ability of cave crickets to resist dehydration
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Comp Physiol B 181:595-601. 2011

Collaborators

  • Joshua B Benoit
  • Marjorie S Morgan
  • Peter E Hanson
  • Larry G Arlian
  • Jonathan A Bernstein
  • Jessica L Pizzuli
  • Chris I Sanders

Detail Information

Publications20

  1. ncbi Allergenicity of the Madagascar hissing cockroach
    Marjorie S Morgan
    Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA
    Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 98:258-61. 2007
    ..The Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa) has become popular as a pet and as an educational tool in classrooms, zoos, and museums...
  2. ncbi An endosymbiotic conidial fungus, Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, protects the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, from desiccation imposed by an entomopathogenic fungus
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Invertebr Pathol 97:119-27. 2008
    ..Thus, the S. brevicaulis/tick association appears to be mutualistic symbiosis. Given that both organisms are of medical-veterinary importance, disruption of this symbiosis has potential for generating novel tools for disease control...
  3. ncbi Developmental profiles in tick water balance with a focus on the new Rocky Mountain spotted fever vector, Rhipicephalus sanguineus
    J A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio 45501, USA
    Med Vet Entomol 20:365-72. 2006
    ..sanguineus by creating isolated arid environments that enable this tick to establish within regions that are unfavourable for maintaining water balance...
  4. ncbi Failure by engorged stages of the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, to react to assembly pheromone, guanine and uric acid
    J A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA
    Med Vet Entomol 22:135-9. 2008
    ..Control significance pertains to the use of these compounds as trap arrestants, but not attractants, with advantages in effectiveness against any non-fed stage...
  5. ncbi Role of permanent host association with the Madagascar hissing-cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa, on the developmental water requirements of the mite, Gromphadorholaelaps schaeferi
    J A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Comp Physiol B 179:729-36. 2009
    ..Our conclusion is that the hissing-cockroach creates an ideal, stable moisture-rich microhabitat that satisfies the high water demand for G. schaeferi during all stages, fixing this mite to a single cockroach as an ecological niche...
  6. ncbi High temperature effects on water loss and survival examining the hardiness of female adults of the spider beetles, Mezium affine and Gibbium aequinoctiale
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Ward Street at North Wittenberg Avenue, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Insect Sci 9:1-8. 2009
    ..aequinoctiale and M. affine derives from rising temperature prompting entry into quiescence and a resistance in cuticular lipid fluidity...
  7. ncbi The pheromone of the cave cricket, Hadenoecus cumberlandicus, causes cricket aggregation but does not attract the co-distributed predatory spider, Meta ovalis
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Insect Sci 10:47. 2010
    ..cumberlandicus presence and quality, the reduced mobility expressed as a result of contacting this pheromone conceivably may act as a defense tactic (antipredator behavior) against M. ovalis, which shares this favored habitat site...
  8. ncbi Water relations in eggs of the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, with experimental work on the capacity for water vapor absorption
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    Exp Appl Acarol 33:235-42. 2004
    ..Thus, enhancement of water retention, not water vapor absorption, permits eggs to resist desiccation...
  9. ncbi Internal and external mycoflora of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae), and its ecological implications
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Undergraduate Research Program, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio 45501, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 69:4994-6. 2003
    ..After topical application of the fungal inoculum, tick mortality was marked. This is the first account describing the internal mycoflora of D. variabilis with a novel technique used to recover potential biological control agents...
  10. ncbi Increased cave dwelling reduces the ability of cave crickets to resist dehydration
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Comp Physiol B 181:595-601. 2011
    ..We conclude that increasing water loss rates associated with increasing troglomorphic adaptation in cave crickets is a side effect of extended residence in stable moist cave environments...
  11. ncbi Prolonged maintenance of water balance by adult females of the American spider beetle, Mezium affine Boieldieu, in the absence of food and water resources
    Joshua B Benoit
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Ward Street at North Wittenberg Avenue, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Insect Physiol 51:565-73. 2005
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  12. ncbi Off-host aggregation in the non-fed, female brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille), is induced by tick excreta and enhanced by low relative humidity
    J A Yoder
    1 Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, U S A and 2 Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U S A
    Med Vet Entomol 27:209-15. 2013
    ..Cleaning or removing tick excreta-covered surfaces on which ticks aggregate from within and around human dwellings may prove useful as a means of interfering with the establishment of off-host clusters of R. sanguineus...
  13. ncbi Attraction of immature stages of the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) to 2,6-dichlorophenol
    J A Yoder
    Department of Biology, The Illinois College, Jacksonville 62650, USA
    Exp Appl Acarol 24:159-64. 2000
    ..However, 2,6-dichlorophenol likely plays a dual role as an attachment stimulant in the adult tick...
  14. ncbi Evidence of a maternal effect that protects against water stress in larvae of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae)
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Insect Physiol 52:1034-42. 2006
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  15. ncbi Use of an alarm pheromone against ants for gaining access to aphid/scale prey by the red velvet mite Balaustium sp. (Erythraeidae) in a honeydew-rich environment
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Exp Biol 213:386-92. 2010
    ..Neryl formate serves as an alarm pheromone and foul-tasting allomonal defense secretion that prevents predation of mites by ants that co-exist with aphid/scale insects in these honeydew-rich habitats...
  16. ncbi Failure of ticks to transmit Scopulariopsis brevicaulis (Deuteromycota), a common filamentous fungal commensal of ticks
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Med Entomol 42:383-7. 2005
    ..brevicaulis in addition to Penicillium glabrum (Wehmer) Westling, but these agents were sparse in isolations from the feeding sites, which makes it unlikely that ticks act frequently as a mechanical fungal vector...
  17. ncbi Identification of 2,4-dichlorophenol in females of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae), and its possible role as a component of the attractant sex pheromone
    Peter E Hanson
    Department of Chemistry, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Med Entomol 39:945-7. 2002
    ..2,4-DCP is comparable in efficacy to 2,6-DCP as an attractant sex pheromone, prompting attraction, arrestment and feeding posture behavior by fed males. It is also present in the female adult...
  18. ncbi Stress-induced accumulation of glycerol in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga bullata: evidence indicating anti-desiccant and cryoprotectant functions of this polyol and a role for the brain in coordinating the response
    Jay A Yoder
    Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA
    J Insect Physiol 52:202-14. 2006
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  19. ncbi Resistance to dehydration between bouts of blood feeding in the bed bug, Cimex lectularius, is enhanced by water conservation, aggregation, and quiescence
    Joshua B Benoit
    Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:987-93. 2007
    ..Surviving water stress is considerably enhanced behaviorally by quiescence, characterized by prolonged periods of inactivity, and by the formation of clusters that generate a water-conserving group effect...
  20. ncbi Critical transition temperature and activation energy with implications for arthropod cuticular permeability
    Jay A Yoder
    J Insect Physiol 51:1063-5. 2005