2023
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Guerrib F., Ning C., Mateos-Hernandéz L., Rakotobe S., Park Y., Hajdusek O., Perner J., Vancová M., Valdés J. J., Šimo L.. 2023. Dual SIFamide receptors in Ixodes salivary glands. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Accepted!). (corresponding author)

Mazuecos L, Alberdi P, Hernández-Jarguín A, Contreras M, Villar M, Cabezas-Cruz A, Šimo L, González-García A, Díaz-Sánchez S, Neelakanta G, Bonnet SI, Fikrig E, de la Fuente J. 2023. Frankenbacteriosis targeting interactions between pathogen and symbiont to control infection in the tick vector. iScience, 26, 106697

Šimo L.,2023. 50 Years Since Kaufman and Philips Groundbreaking Trilogy Elucidating Ion and Water Homeostasis in Ixodid Ticks, Pathogens 12(3), 385. (corresponding author)

2021
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Mateos-Hernández L., Obregon D., Wu-Chuang A, Maye J., Bornères J, Versillé N., de la Fuente J., Díaz-Sánchez S., Bermúdez-Humarán L.G., Torres-Maravilla E., Estrada-Peña A., Hodžić A., Šimo L, Cabezas-Cruz A. 2021. Anti-microbiota vaccines modulate the tick microbiome in a taxon-specific manner. Front Immunol. 12:704621. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.704621.

Boularias G., Azzag, N., Galon C., Šimo L., Boulouis H-J., Moutailler S., 2021 High-throughput microfluidic real-time PCR for the detection of multiple microorganisms in Ixodid cattle ticks in northeast Algeria, Pathogens 10, 362

Mateos-Hernández L., Pipová N., Allain E., Henry C., Rouxel C., Lagrée A-C., Haddad N., Boulouis H-J., Valdés J. J., Alberdi P., de la Fuente J., Cabezas-Cruz A.* and Šimo L.* 2021. Enlisting the Ixodes scapularis Embryonic ISE6 Cell Line to Investigate the Neuronal Basis of Tick-Pathogen Interactions, Pathogens, 10, 70. (corresponding author)

Sonenshine E. D. and Šimo L. 2021 Biology and Molecular Biology of Ixodes scapularis In: Lyme Disease and Relapsing Fever Spirochetes: Genomics, Molecular Biology, Host Interactions and Disease Pathogenesis. Eds.: Justin D. Radolf and D. Scott Samuels, Caister Academic Press (339-368)

2020
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Mateos-Hernández L., Obregon D., Maye J., Borneres J., Versille N., de la Fuente J., Estrada-Peña A., Hodžić A., Šimo L., Cabezas-Cruz A. 2020. Anti-tick microbiota vaccine impacts Ixodes ricinus performance during feeding. Vaccines. 8 (4), 702

Almazan, C., Šimo, L., Fourniol, L., Rakotobe, S., Bornéres, J., Cote, M., Peltier, S., Maye, J., Versille, N., Richardson, J., Bonnet, S., 2020. Multiple antigenic peptide-based vaccines targeting Ixodes ricinus neuropeptides induce a specific antibody response but do not impact tick infestation. Pathogens, 9 (11), 900. (equal contribution)

Mateos-Hernandez, L., Defaye, B., Vancová, M., Hajdusek, O., Sima, R. Park, Y., Auttoui, H. Šimo L.* 2020. Cholinergic axons regulate type I acini in salivary glands of Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes scapularis ticks. Scientific Reports 10, 16054. (corresponding author)

Almazan, C., Fourniol, L., Rakotobe, S., Šimo L., Bornéres, J., Cote, M., Peltier, S., Maye, J., Versille, N., Richardson, J., Bonnet, S. 2020. Failed disruption of tick feeding, viability and molting after immunization of mice and sheep with recombinant Ixodes ricinus salivary proteins IrSPI and IrLip1. Vaccines 8, 475

Mateos-Hernández L., Rakotobe S., Defaye B., Cabezas-Cruz A., Šimo L. 2020. A capsule-based model for immature hard tick stages infestation on laboratory mice. JoVE, e61430, doi:10.3791/61430 (corresponding author)

Vancová M., Bílý T., Šimo L., Touš J; Horodyský P., Ruzek D., Novobilský A., Salát J., Strnad M, Sonenshine D., Grubhoffer L., Nebesářová J., 2020. Three-dimensional reconstruction of the feeding apparatus of the tick Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae). Scientific Reports 10:165.

Park Y., Kim D., Boorgula G., Schutter K., Smagghe G., Šimo L., Archer-Hartmann S., P. Azadi, 2020. Alpha-gal and cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants in the N-glycans of salivary glands in the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum. Vaccines, (8, 18)

Veenstra J. A. and Šimo L. 2020. The TRH-ortholog EFLamide in the migratory locust. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 116:103281

2019

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Blisnick A., Šimo L., Grillon C., Fasani F., Brûlé S., Le Bonniec B., Prina E., Marsot M., Relmy A., Blaise-Boisseau B., Richardson J., Bonnet S., 2019. The immunomodulatory effect of IrSPI, a tick salivary gland serine protease inhibitor involved in Ixodes ricinus tick feeding. Vaccines, 7, 148

Vancova M, Bílý T, Nebesářová J, Grubhoffer L, Bonnet S, Park Y, Šimo L. 2019. Ultrastructural mapping of salivary gland innervation in the tick Ixodes ricinus. Scientific Reports. 9:6860 (corresponding author)

Lejal E, Moutailler S, Šimo L, Vayssier-Taussat M, Pollet T. 2019. Tick-borne pathogen detection in midgut and salivary glands of adult Ixodes ricinus. Parasites & Vectors 12(1):152

Kim, D., Šimo L., Vancova M, Urban J, Park Y. 2019. Neural and endocrine regulation of osmoregulatory organs in tick: Recent discoveries and implications. Gen and Comp Endocrinol. 278:42-49 (*equal contribution)

2018

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Cabezas-Cruz A*, Espinosa PJ*, Alberdi P*, Šimo L*, Valdés JJ, Mateos-Hernández L, Contreras M, Rayo MV, de la Fuente J. 2018. Tick galactosyltransferases are involved in α-Gal synthesis and play a role during Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection and Ixodes scapularis tick vector development. Sci Rep. 8(1): 14224. (* equal contribution)

Almazán C, Bonnet S, Cote M, Slovák M, Park, Y, Šimo, L*. 2018. A Versatile Model of Hard Tick Infestation on Laboratory Rabbits. J. Vis. Exp. (140), e57994 (* corresponding author)

Kim D, Šimo L, Park Y. 2018. Molecular characterization of neuropeptide elevenin and two elevenin receptors, IsElevR1 and IsElevR2, from the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 101:66-75

Bonnet S., Kazimirova M., Richardson J. Šimo L. 2018 Tick saliva and its role in pathogen transmission. In: Skin and arthropod vectors, Ed. N. Boulanger , Elsevier 2018 121:191

2017
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Šimo L, Kazimirova M, Richardson J, Bonnet S. 2017. The essential role of tick salivary glands and saliva in tick feeding and pathogen transmission. Front. Cell. Infect Microbiol. 7:281

2016
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Gulia-Nuss M, Nuss AB, Meyer JM, Sonenshine DE, Roe RM, Waterhouse RM, Sattelle DB, de la Fuente J, Ribeiro JM, Megy K, Thimmapuram J, Miller JR, Walenz BP, Koren S, Hostetler JB, Thiagarajan M, Joardar VS, Hannick LI, Bidwell S, Hammond MP, Young S, Zeng Q, Abrudan JL, Almeida FC, Ayllón N, Bhide K, Bissinger BW, Bonzon-Kulichenko E, Buckingham SD, Caffrey DR, Caimano MJ, Croset V, Driscoll T, Gilbert D, Gillespie JJ, Giraldo-Calderón GI, Grabowski JM, Jiang D, Khalil SM, Kim D, Kocan KM, Koči J, Kuhn RJ, Kurtti TJ, Lees K, Lang EG, Kennedy RC, Kwon H, Perera R, Qi Y, Radolf JD, Sakamoto JM, Sánchez-Gracia A, Severo MS, Silverman N, Šimo L, Tojo M, Tornador C, Van Zee JP, Vázquez J, Vieira FG, Villar M, Wespiser AR, Yang Y, Zhu J, Arensburger P, Pietrantonio PV, Barker SC, Shao R, Zdobnov EM, Hauser F, Grimmelikhuijzen CJ, Park Y, Rozas J, Benton R, Pedra JH, Nelson DR, Unger MF, Tubio JM, Tu Z, Robertson HM, Shumway M, Sutton G, Wortman JR, Lawson D, Wikel SK, Nene VM, Fraser CM, Collins FH, Birren B, Nelson KE, Caler E, Hill CA. 2016. Genomic insights into the Ixodes scapularis tick vector of Lyme disease. Nat. Commun. 7:10507

2015

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Avila LA, Aps LR, Sukthankar P, Ploscariu N, Guldur S, Šimo L, Szoszkiewicz R, Park Y, Lee SY, Iwamoto T, Tomich JM. 2015. Branched amphiphilic cationic oligo-peptides form peptiplexes wih DNA: A study of their biophysical properties and transfection efficiency. Mol Pharm. 12 (3), pp 706–715

Roller L*, Šimo L*, Mizoguchi A, Slovak M, Park Y. Žitňan D. 2015. Orcokinin-like immunoreactivity in central neurons innervating the salivary glands and hindgut of Ixodid ticks. Cell Tiss Res 360(2):209-22. Including “front cover page” of the issue. (* equal contribution)

2014

Šimo L, Sonenshine D, Park Y, Žitňan D, The Nervous and Sensory Systems: Structure, Function, Proteomics and Genomics, 2014. Biology of Ticks Volume 1. Edited by D. E. Sonenshine and R. M. Roe. Oxford University Press, Inc., 198 Madison Avenue, New York. pp.309-367

Šimo L*, Park Y*. 2014. Neuropeptidergic control of the hindgut in the black legged tick Ixodes scapularis. Int J Parasitol 44(11):819-826. Selected as an “editors’ choice article” as well as including “front cover page” (* corresponding author)

Šimo L, Koči J, Kim DH, Park Y. 2014. Invertebrate specific D1-like dopamine receptor in control of salivary glands in the black-legged tick Ixodes scapularis, J Com Neurol. 522(9):2038-52

Kim D, Šimo L, Park Y, Orchestration of salivary secretion mediated by two different dopamine receptors in the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, 2014. J Exp Biol 217:3656-3663, Selected by editor for “inside JEB” section article.

Koči J, Šimo L, Park Y. 2014. Autocrine/paracrine dopamine in the salivary glands of the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis. J Ins Physiol. 62:39-45

2013
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Jiang H, Ikhagva A, Daubnerová I, Chae H, Šimo L, Jung SH, Yoonb YK, Lee NR, Seong JY, Žitňan D, Park Y, Kim YJ. 2013. Natalisin, a new tachykinin-like signaling system, regulates sexual activity and fecundity in insects, Proc Nat Aca Sci. 110 (37). E3526-E3534

Šimo L, Koči J, Park Y. 2013. The receptors for neuropeptides myoinhibitory peptide and SIFamide in the salivary glands of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, Insect Bioch Mol Biol. 43:376-387

Koči J, Šimo L, Park Y. 2013. Validation of internal reference genes for real-time quantitative PCR studies in the tick Ixodes scapularis, J Med Entomol. 50:79-84

2012

Šimo L*, Žitňan D, Park Y*. 2012. Neural control of salivary glands in Ixodid ticks. J Ins Physiol. 58:459–466 (* corresponding author)

Zďárek J, Takáč P, Keszeliová D, Šimo L, Roller L, Cvačka J, Šanda M. 2012. Parturition in tsetse flies: Endocrine control, Quality Control for Expanded Tsetse Production, Sterilization and Field Application, Insect Pest Control Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, pp.63-97

2011
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Šimo L, Koči J, Žitňan D, Park Y. 2011. Evidence for D1 dopamine receptor activation by a paracrine signal of dopamine in tick salivary glands, PLoS ONE 6(1):e16158

Roller L, Žitňanová I, Dai L, Šimo L, Park Y, Satake H, Tanaka Y, Adams ME, Žitňan D. 2011. Ecdysis triggering hormone signaling in arthropods. Peptides. 31(3):429-441

2009

Šimo L, Žitňan D, Park Y. 2009. Two novel neuropeptides innervate the salivary glands in the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis: Myoinhibitory peptide and SIFamide. J Comp Neurol. 517:551–563, Including “front cover page” of the issue.

Šimo L, Slovák M, Park Y, Žitňan D. 2009. Identification of a complex peptidergic neuroendocrine network in the hard tick, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, Cell Tiss Res. 335(3):639-655

2008
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Peterková K., Vančova I., Hajnická V., Slovák M., ŠimoL. and Nuttall P. A., Immunomodulatory arsenal of nymphal ticks, Medical and Veterinary Entomology,22, 167-171, 2008

2007
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Vančová I., SlovákM., Hajnická V., Labuda M., Šimo L., Peterkova K., Hails R. S., Nuttall P. A. Differential anti-chemokine activity of Amblyomma variegatumadult ticks during blood-feeding, Parasite Immunology29 (4),169–177, 2007

2004
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Šimo L.,Kocáková P., Sláviková M., Kubeš M., Hajnická V., Vančová I., Slovák M., Dermacentor reticulatus (Acari, Ixodidae) female feeding in laboratory, Biologia, 59: 655-660, 2004

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