Ann Fallon

Fallon, AM, Leen LG, Kurtti, TJ.  Establishment of a new cell line from embryos of the mosquito, Culex pipiens.  In vitro cell dev biol-animal 2023, 59(5) 313-315.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-023-00771-5.

Ward, MCE, Barrios, MC, Fallon, AM. 2023.  Paraquat is toxic to the soil-dwelling arthropod, Folsomia candida (Collembola: Isotomidae), and has potential effects on its Wolbachia endosymbiont.  J Invert. Pathol.  2023, 198, 107936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2023.107936

Fallon, AM, Carroll, EM. Virus-like particles from Wolbachia-infected cells may include a gene transfer agent.  Insects 2023, 14, 516.  https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14060516

Fallon, AM.  Mitotically inactivated mosquito cells support robust Wolbachia infection and replication.  In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. – Animal 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-022-00726-2

Fallon, AM.  From mosquito ovaries to ecdysone; from ecdysone to Wolbachia: one woman’s career in insect biology. Insects 2022, 13,756. https://doi.org/10.3390/ insects13080756

Fallon, AM. Muramidase, nuclease, or hypothetical protein genes intervene between paired genes encoding DNA packaging terminase and portal proteins in Wolbachia phages and prophages. Virus Genes 2022, 58(4):327-349. doi: 10.1007/s11262-022-01907-7.

Fallon, AM. Growth and maintenance of Wolbachia in insect cell lines. Insects 2021, 12, 706.  doi.org/10.3390/insects12080706.

Fallon, AM. Assessment of mitotically inactivated mosquito cell feeder layers produced with mitomycin C. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. – Animal 2021, 57:583–586.  doi.org/10.1007/s11626-021-00597-z

Fallon, AM. DNA recombination and repair in Wolbachia: RecA and related proteins, Mol. Genet. Genomics 2021, 296(2):437-456. doi 10.1007/s00438-020-01760-z.

Fallon, AM: Computational evidence for antitoxins associated with RelE/ParE, RatA, Fic and AbiEii-family toxins in Wolbachia genomes. Mol. Genet. Genomics, 2020, 295, 891-909; doi 10.1007/s00438-020-01662-0

Fallon, AM: Conditions facilitating infection of mosquito cell lines with Wolbachia, an obligate intracellular bacterium, In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Animal 2019, 55 (2), 120-129.  https://doi.org. 10.1007/s11626-019-00319-6

Graber, LC Fallon, AM. Tetracycline reduces feeding and reproduction of the parthenogenetic springtail, Folsomia candida. Symbiosis 2019, 77(3), 257-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-018-00593-0

Todey, SA, Fallon AM, Arnold, WS:  Neonicotinoid insecticide hydrolysis and photolysis:  rates and residual toxicity.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2018, 37 (11):2797-2809. doi 10.1002/etc.4256.

Fallon, AM:  Strain-specific response to ampicillin in Wolbachia-infected mosquito cell lines.  In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Animal 2018,  454: 580-588.  doi.org/10.1007/s11626-018-0279-x

Baldridge, GD, Higgins, LA, Witthuhn, BA, Markowski, TW, Baldridge, AS, Armien, AG, Fallon, AM. Proteomic analysis of a mosquito host response to persistent Wolbachia infection. Research in Microbiol 2017, 168, 609-625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resmic.2017.04.005.

Baldridge, GD, Li, YG, Witthuhn, BA, Higgins, LA, Markowski, TW, Baldridge, AS and Fallon, AM. Mosaic composition of ribA and wspB genes flanking the virB8-D4 operon in the Wolbachia supergroup B strain, wStr. Archs. Microbiol 2016, 198, 53-69. https://DOI 10.1007/s00203-015-1154-8.

Baldridge, GD, Markowski, TW, Witthuhn, BA Witthuhn, Higgins, LA, Baldridge AS and Fallon, AM. The Wolbachia WO bacteriophage proteome in the Aedes albopictus C/wStr1 cell line: Evidence for lytic activity? In Vitro Cell Dev. Biol--Animal 2016, 52, 77-88. https://DOI 10.1007/s11626-015-9949-0.

Li, G and Fallon, AM. Rearing the soil arthropod Folsomia candida (Collembola: Isotomidae) on agar plates and estimating biomass by protein staining with Ponceau S. Applied Entomol. Zool. 2016, 51(3) 489-494. DOI 10.1007/s13355-016-0405-8.

Fallon AM. Effects of mimosine on Wolbachia in mosquito cells: Cell cycle suppression reduces bacterial abundance. In Vitro Cell Dev. Biol Animal 2015, 51, 958-963. https://DOI 10.1007/s11626-015-9918-7.

Baldridge, GD, Baldridge, AS, Higgins, LA, Witthuhn, BA, Markowski, TW, Fallon, AM. Proteomic profiling of a robust Wolbachia infection in an Aedes albopictus mosquito cell line. Mol Microbiol 2014, 94, 537-556. doi:10.1111.mmi12768.

Fallon, AM, Baldridge, GD, Carroll, EM, Kurtz, CM. Depletion of host cell riboflavin reduces Wolbachia levels in cultured mosquito cells. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol Animal 2014, 50, 707-713.

Fallon, AM. Flow cytometric evaluation of the intracellular bacterium, Wolbachia pipientis, in mosquito cells. J Microbiological Methods 2014, 107, 119-125.

Beckmann, JF, Markowski, TW, Witthuhn, BA, Fallon, AM. Detection of the Wolbachia encoded DNA binding protein, HU-beta, in mosquito gonads. Insect Biochem Mol. Biol 2013, 43, 272-279.

Beckmann, JF and Fallon, AM. Detection of a Wolbachia Protein in Mosquito Spermathecae: Implications for Cytoplasmic Incompatibility. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 2013, 43, 867-878.

Fallon, AM, Baldridge, GD, Higgins, LA, Witthuhn, BA. Wolbachia from the planthopper Laodelphax striatellus establishes a robust, persistent, streptomycin-resistant infection in clonal mosquito cells. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Animal 2013, 49, 66-73.

Fallon, AM, Kurtz, CM, Carroll, EM. The oxidizing agent, paraquat, is more toxic to Wolbachia than to mosquito host cells. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Animal, 2013, 49, 501-507.

Beckmann, J. F. and Fallon, A. M. Decapitation improves detection of Wolbachia pipientis (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataeae) in Culex pipiens Linnaeus (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes by the polymerase chain reaction. J. Med. Entomol 2012, 49, 1103-1108.