Publications

Bishop AP, Amatulli G, Hyseni C, Pless E, et al. (2021) A machine learning approach to integrating genetic and ecological data in tsetse flies (Glossina pallidipes) for spatially explicit vector control planning. Evolutionary Applications. 14: 1762-1777.

Pless E, Saarman N, Powell JR, Caccone A, Amatulli G. (2021) Mapping landscape connectivity in Aedes aegypti: a machine learning approach to integrate genetic and environmental data. PNAS. 118(9): e200320111.

Pless, EHopperstad, KALedesma, NDixon, DHenke, JAPowell, JR. (2020) Sunshine versus gold: The effect of population age on genetic structure of an invasive mosquito. Ecology and Evolution. 001– 12https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6661

Pless E, Gloria-Soria A, Evans B, Kramer V, Bolling BG, Tabachnink WJ, Powell JR. (2017) Multiple Introductions of the Dengue Vector, Aedes aegypti, into California. PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease 11(8): e0005718.

Saarman NP, Gloria-Soria A, Anderson EC, Evans BR, Pless E, Cosme LV, Gonzalez-Acosta C, Kamgang B, Wesson DM, Powell JR. (2017) Effective population sizes of a major vector of human diseases, Aedes aegypti. Evolutionary Applications: 00: 1-9. doi:10.1111/eva.12508

Gaughran SJ, Pless E, Stearns SC. (2016) How elephants beat cancer: Elephants have significantly reduced their risk of cancer by duplicating an important gene called TP53. eLIFE:5:e21864. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21864

Pless E, Queirolo J, Pinter-Wollman N, Crow S, Allen K, et al. (2015) Interactions Increase Forager Availability and Activity in Harvester Ants. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141971. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141971