Chloe Lahondere

About

Our lab focuses on blood-sucking insects' thermal biology, physiology and neuro-ethology in the Department of Biochemistry at Virginia Tech. Check out the research page to see the projects we are currently working on as well as previous research on kissing bugs, mosquitoes and tsetse flies.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Ecology
• Biology
• Medicine
• Pathology
• Virology
• Geography

Selected publications

• Linking Mosquito Ecology, Traits, Behavior, and Disease Transmission

  Trends in Parasitology · 2020 · 96 citations

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• Recent advances in insect thermoregulation

  Journal of Experimental Biology · 2023-09-12 · 60 citations

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  Ambient temperature (Ta) is a critical abiotic factor for insects that cannot maintain a constant body temperature (Tb). Interestingly, Ta varies during the day, between seasons and habitats; insects must constantly cope with these variations to avoid reaching the deleterious effects of thermal stress. To minimize these risks, insects have evolved a set of physiological and behavioral thermoregulatory processes as well as molecular responses that allow them to survive and perform under various t…

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• Thermal biology of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in the context of climate change

  Current Opinion in Insect Science · 2022 · 50 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  The increasing incidence of arboviral diseases in tropical endemic areas and their emergence in new temperate countries is one of the most important challenges that Public Health agencies are currently facing. Because mosquitoes are poikilotherms, shifts in temperature influence physiological functions besides egg viability. These traits impact not only vector density, but also their interaction with their hosts and arboviruses. As such the relationship among mosquitoes, arboviral diseases and t…

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• Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector <i>Aedes albopictus</i>: Implications for climate change

  Global Change Biology · 2024-03-01 · 30 citations

  articleOpen access

  The increase of environmental temperature due to current global warming is not only favouring the expansion of the distribution range of many insect species, but it is also changing their phenology. Insect phenology is tightly linked to developmental timing, which is regulated by environmental temperatures. However, the degree to which the effects of developmental temperatures extend across developmental stages and their inter-stage relationships have not been thoroughly quantified in mosquitoes…

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• Sugar feeding by invasive mosquito species on ornamental and wild plants

  Scientific Reports · 2023-12-13 · 23 citations

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  Feeding on plant-derived sugars is an essential component of mosquito biology, affecting key aspects of their lives such as survival, metabolism, and reproduction. Among mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are two invasive mosquito species in the US, and are vectors of diseases such as dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika. These species live in heavily populated, urban areas, where they have high accessibility to human hosts as well as to plants in backyards and public landscapes. Howe…

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Frequent coauthors

• Cláudio R. Lazzari

  Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte UMR 7261

  40 shared

• Clément Vinauger

  Virginia Tech

  30 shared

• T Insausti

  Université de Tours

  16 shared

• Jeffrey A. Riffell

  University of Washington

  16 shared

• Xiaojie Luan

  11 shared

• Juan P. Ianowski

  11 shared

• Gabriella H. Wolff

  University of Washington

  10 shared

• Joshua B. Benoit

  University of Cincinnati

  9 shared

Labs

• Chloé Lahondère LabPI

Education

• PhD, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (IRBI)

  Université Francois-Rabelais de Tours Sciences et Techniques

  2012

• Msc Degree, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (IRBI)

  Université Francois-Rabelais de Tours Sciences et Techniques

  2009

• B.Sc.

  Université Francois-Rabelais de Tours Sciences et Techniques:

  2007

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