Publications
Bolded names indicate Soghigian Lab members. * Indicates both authors contributed equally.
2026
Soghigian, J., Morinaga, G., Yeo, H., Linton, Y-M., Wilkerson, R. C., Sallum, M. A., Sharakov, I., Sharakova, M., Laurito, M., Bang, W. J., Shin, S., Snyman, L., Zavortink, T., Sither, C., Reiskind, M., Wiegmann, B. M. 2026. The Culicinae are Monophyletic and Ancient: A response to Pierce et al. 2025. bioRxiv. Preprint available at: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.04.720205
Morinaga, G., Gloria-Soria, A., Hanley, K. A., Ponlawat, A., Powell, J. R., Soghigian, J. 2026. Two chromosome-scale genomes of wild Aedes aegypti aegypti mosquitoes from North America and South-East Asia, Journal of Heredity, esag032, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esag032
Tompkin, J.E., Saelao, P., Kruczalak, J., Yeo, H., …, Soghigian, J., Noh, S. M., Benoit, J. Genome sequencing and multi-stage, blood-feeding, and tissue-specific transcriptome atlas of the Rocky Mountain wood tick provide a critical resource for this vector. bioRxiv. Preprint available at: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.15.717773
Beza-Beza, C., Soghigian, J., Bailey, E., Johnston, N.P, Cassel, B.K, Bayless, K.M., Wells, J.D., Yeates, D. K, et al. 2026. Phylogenomics and the evolution of larval feeding habits in the blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Systematic Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.70018
2025
Yeo, H.*, Chan, C.*, Morinaga, G., Wiegmann, B. M., Soghigian, J. 2025. A Way Through the Trees: Molecular Phylogenies Consistently Recover Two Clades of Aedes Mosquitoes. bioRxiv. Preprint available at: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.16.665186
Morinaga, G., Balcazar, D., Badolo, A., Iyaloo, D., Tantely, L., Mouillaud, T., Sharakhova, M., Geib, S.M., Paupy, C., Ayala, D., Powell, J. R., Gloria-Soria, A., Soghigian, J. 2025. From macro to micro: De novo genomes of Aedes mosquitoes enable comparative genomics among close and distant relatives. Genome Biology Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf142
Powell, J. R., Gloria-Soria, A., Soghigian, J. 2025. Recognition of mosquito subspecies: the case for Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaf067
Xuan, J., Scheffer, S., Soghigian, J., Cassel, B., Lewis, M., Li, S., Guo, J., Liu, W., Wiegmann, B. 2025. Population phylogenomics and genetic structure of the polyphagous leafminer, Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess) (Diptera: Agromyzidae). Evolutionary Applications. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.70132
Piwczyński, M., Dinka, M. D., Trzeciak, P., Walczak, K., Puchałka, R., Soghigian, J., Spalik, K. 2025. Conflicting phylogenetic signals obscure the taxonomic position of Ferula heuffelii (Apiaceae), a rare Southeast European endemic. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boaf050
Venkatesan A., Chen R., Bär M., Schneeberger P.H.H., Reimer B., Hürlimann E., Coulibaly J.T., Ali S.M., Sayasone S., Soghigian J., Keiser J., Gilleard J.S. 2025. Trichuriasis in Human Patients from Côte d'Ivoire Caused by Novel Trichuris incognita Species with Low Sensitivity to Albendazole/Ivermectin Combination Treatment. Emerging Infectious Disease, Jan;31(1):104-114. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3101.240995.
Thomas, A.M., Verocai G.G., Soghigian, J., Mavrot, F., Jutha, N., Adamczewski, J., Davison, T., Duytscahever, G., et al. 2025. Widespread geographic distribution of filarioid nematodes in caribou (Rangifer tarandus sspp.) in Canada. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 26:101030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2024.101030
Dinka, M.D., Popa, M.O., Trzeciak, P., Spalik, K., Soghigian, J. and Piwczynski, M., 2025. The complete plastid genome of Ferula communis (Apiaceae): structural features and phylogenetic insights. Acta Societatis Botanicorium Poloniae, 94. https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/216747
Pan, T.*, Seal, M.*, Shaw, H., Mohanaraj, S., Morinaga, G., Hogaboam, B., Jenkins, M., Coker, A., Soghigian, J. 2025. First record of Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) in Alberta: expanding distributions and ecotype patterns in a western Canadian province, Journal of Medical Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjae150
2024
Gómez-Palacio, A.*, Morinaga, G.*, Turner, P.E., Micieli, M.V., Elnour, M.B., Salim, B., Surendran, S. N., Ramasamy, S., Powell, J. R., Soghigian, J., Gloria-Soria, A. 2024. Robustness in population-structure and demographic-inference results derived from the Aedes aegypti SNP chip and whole-genome sequencing data. G3: Genes, genomes, genetics. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae082
2023
Soghigian, J., Sither, C., Justi, S., Morinaga, G., Cassel, B., Vitek, C., Livdahl, T., Xia, S., Gloria-Soria, A., Powell, J. Zavortink, T., et al. 2023. Phylogenomics Reveals the History of Host Use in Mosquitoes. Nature Communications. 14, 6252. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41764-y
Morinaga, G., Soghigian, J., Edgerly, J.S. 2023. Macroecology and Potential Drivers of Diversity in Webspinner Maternal Care (Order Embioptera), Insect Systematics and Diversity, 7:(1)
2022
Winkler, I., Kirk-Spriggs, A. H., Bayless, K. M., Soghigian, J., Meier, R., Yeates, D. K., Carvalho, B., Copeland, R.S., and Wiegmann, B. M.2022. Phylogenetic resolution of the fly superfamily Ephydroidea: molecular
systematics of the enigmatic and diverse relatives of Drosophilidae. PLoS ONE.
Zhou, W., Soghigian, J. and Xiang, Q.Y.J., 2022. A New Pipeline for Removing Paralogs in Target Enrichment Data. Systematic Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab044
2021
Andrade Justi, S., Soghigian, J., Pecor, D.B., Caicedo-Quiroga, L., Rutvisuttinunt, W., Li, T., Stevens, L., Dorn, P.L., Wiegmann, B. and Linton, Y.M., 2021. From e-voucher to genomic data: Preserving archive specimens as demonstrated with medically important mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and kissing bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Plos one, 16(2), p.e0247068. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247068
Soghigian, J., Livdahl, T., Field Evidence of Mosquito Population Regulation by a Gregarine Parasite, Journal of Medical Entomology, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2021, Pages 1188–1196, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab009
Relevant Publications from J. Soghigian Prior to 2021
Soghigian, J., Gloria‐Soria, A., Robert, V., Le Goff, G., Failloux, A.B. and Powell, J.R., 2020. Genetic evidence for the origin of Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Molecular Ecology, 29(19), pp.3593-3606. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15590
Gloria-Soria, A., Soghigian, J., Kellner, D. and Powell, J.R., 2019. Genetic diversity of laboratory strains and implications for research: the case of Aedes aegypti. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 13(12), p.e0007930. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007930
Bova, J., Soghigian, J. and Paulson, S., 2019. The prediapause stage of Aedes japonicus japonicus and the evolution of embryonic diapause in Aedini. Insects, 10(8), p.222. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10080222
Soghigian, J., Andreadis, T.G. and Molaei, G., 2018. Population genomics of Culiseta melanura, the principal vector of Eastern equine encephalitis virus in the United States. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12(8), p.e0006698. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006698
Soghigian, J., Andreadis, T.G. and Livdahl, T.P., 2017. From ground pools to treeholes: convergent evolution of habitat and phenotype in Aedes mosquitoes. BMC evolutionary biology, 17(1), pp.1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1092-y
Soghigian, J., Valsdottir, L.R., and Livdahl, T.P., 2017. A parasite's modification of host behavior reduces predation on its host. Ecology and Evolution, 7:1453–1461.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2748
Soghigian, J., Ridge, G.E., Stafford, K.C. and Molaei, G., 2017. The first evidence of nanism in Ixodes (Ixodes) scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), found parasitizing a human host. Journal of Medical Entomology. 54(5), pp.1224-1228. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjx111
Soghigian, J. and Livdahl, T., 2017. Differential response to mosquito host sex and parasite dosage suggest mixed dispersal strategies in the parasite Ascogregarina taiwanensis. PloS one, 12(9), p.e0184573. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184573
Soghigian, J., Gibbs, K., Stanton, A., Kaiser, R. and Livdahl, T., 2014. Sexual harassment and feeding inhibition between two invasive dengue vectors. Environmental Health Insights, 8, pp.EHI-S16007. https://doi.org/10.4137/EHI.S16007
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