At the invitation of Professor David Denlinger, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Insect Science (COIS), Julián Hillyer served as the guest editor of a journal issue that focused on vector immunity.  As guest editor, Julián Hillyer (1) invited prominent entomologists to write reviews in specific areas of vector immunity, (2) wrote with Michael Strand (University of Georgia) a review titled “Mosquito hemocyte-mediated immune responses” (LINK), (3) edited the invited reviews, and (4) wrote an editorial.  The vector immunity issue of Current Opinion in Insect Science was published in September of 2014 (volume 3).

Editorial citation:

Hillyer, J.F. 2014. Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Immune responses to pathogen infections in insect vectors. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 3:v-vii 

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Table of contents of volume 3 of Current Opinion in Insect Science: (See it in COIS)

1. 1.Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Immune responses to pathogen infections in insect vectors
   

    Pages v-vii

    Julián F. Hillyer

2. Effects of ingested vertebrate-derived factors on insect immune responses

    Pages 1-5

    Nazzy Pakpour, Michael A. Riehle, Shirley Luckhart

3. The mosquito microbiota influences vector competence for human pathogens

    Pages 6-13

    Nathan J. Dennison, Natapong Jupatanakul, George Dimopoulos

4. Mosquito hemocyte-mediated immune responses

    Pages 14-21

    Julián F. Hillyer, Michael R. Strand

5. Mosquito immune responses to arbovirus infections

    Pages 22-29

    Carol D. Blair, Ken E. Olson

6. Mosquito defenses against Plasmodium parasites

    Pages 30-36

    Maiara S. Severo, Elena A. Levashina

7. Infection barriers and responses in mosquito–filarial worm interactions

    Pages 37-42

    Lyric C. Bartholomay

8. Trypanosome transmission dynamics in tsetse

    Pages 43-49

    Serap Aksoy, Brian L. Weiss, Geoff M. Attardo