Professor A.Jennifer Mordue
Professor of Zoology
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Personal Details
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Research Interests
Environmentally sound strategies for pest management involve the use of pest specific targets. My research is concerned with understanding the role of semiochemicals in behaviour with a view to their use in stimulo-deterrent diversionary strategies, also with the mode of action of azadirachtin, an insect antifeedant and growth regulator from the neem tree Azadirachta indica.Research involves the isolation, characterization, bioassay, and biology of sex and aggregation pheromones in biting midges and the salmon louse; host location cues in mosquitoes, biting midges and the salmon louse; habitat related oviposition cues in mosquitoes and novel human derived repellents for the control of insect vectors of disease. Also physiological and biochemical mode of action of azadirachtin using insect cell lines to investigate binding proteins.
New methods of identifying insect vectors of disease have been developed. Of special importance are investigations into the molecular phylogeny and population ecology of Culicoides midge species that act as vectors of blue tongue virus (BTV) and African horse sickness virus (AHSV) 'OIE' listed diseases of livestock threatening Europe and the UK.
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Research Grants
SEERAD, Presence, distribution and abundance in Scotland of Culicoides midge species and their potential as vectors of pathogens of animal diseases (with S.Piertney)
Scottish Enterprise NESTech fund, Human derived repellents against insects
NERC, Optimization of semiochemical blends for use in sealouse monitoring and control
DEFRA, Molecular phylogeny of Culicoides midges in relation to vector competence for bluetongue in the UK
EWOS Innovation, Disruption of attachment of Lepeophtheirus salmonis on Atlantic salmon
Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept: Human derived repellents for midges
NERC/LINK: Scottish Salmon Growers: Shetland Salmon Farmers Assoc. Host and mate-locating semiochemicals for sea lice control
EU Bluetongue and other Culicoides-borne diseases threatening the EU: identification of vulnerable areas by surveillance, GIS modelling and molecular methods to aid risk assessment. (with Dr J Dallas)
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External Responsibilities
Professor Mordue is currently:
Member of Board of Trustees, SCI London
Member ISLM (Integrated Sea Louse Management Forum)
Editorial Board member of Physiological Entomology; Biochemical Systematics & Ecology; Biopesticide International
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Selected Publications
Pino-Marambio, J., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., Birkett, M., Carvajal, J., Asencio, G., Mellado, A., Quiroz, A. 2007 Behavioural studies of host, non-host and mate location by the Sea Louse, Caligus rogercresseyi Boxshall & Bravo, 2000 (Copepoda: Caligidae) Aquaculture 271 (2007) p.70-76.
Robertson, Susan L., Ni, Weiting., Dhadialla, Tarlochan S., Nisbet, Alasdair J., McCusker, Catherine., Ley, Steven V., Mordue, William and Mordue (Luntz) A.J., 2007 Identification of a Putative Azadirachtin-Binding Complex From Drosophila Kc167 Cells. 2007 Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 64: p. 200-208.
Nolan, Damien V., Carpenter, Simon., Barber, James., Mellor, Philip S., Dallas, John F., Mordue (Luntz) A.J., Piertney, Stuart B., 2007 Rapid Diagnostic PCR assays for members of the Culicoides obsoletus and Culicoides pulicaris species complexes, implicated vectors of bluetongue virus in Europe. 2007 Veterinary Microbiology: p. 83-95.
Bricknell, I. R., Dalesman, S. J., O'Shea, B., Pert, C. C., Mordue (Luntz), A. J., 2006 Effect of environmental salinity on sea lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis settlement success. Dis. Aquat. Org 71: 201-212.
Bailey, R. J. E.,Birkett, M.A., Ingvarsdottir, A., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., Mordue, W., O'Shea, B., Pickett, J.A., Wadhams, L. 2006 The role of semichemicals in host location and non-host avoidance by salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) copepodids. Can. J. Fishe. Aquat. Sci. 63: 448-456.
O'Shea, B., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., Fryer, R.J., Pert, C.C. Bricknell, I. R. 2006 Determination of the surface are of a fish. J Fish Diseases 29: 437-440
Genna, R.L., Mordue, W., Pike, A.W. Mordue (Luntz), A.J. 2005 Light intensity,salinity and host velocity influence presettlement intensity and distribution on hosts by copepodids of sea lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis. Can. J. Fishe. Aquat. Sci. 62: 2675-2682.
Carpenter, S., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., and Mordue, W. 2005 Oogenesis and laboratory survival in the Scottish biting midge Culicoides impunctatus. Physiol. Entomol. 10 (11) 365-370
Carpenter, S., Eyres, K., McEndrick, I., Smith, L., Turner, J. Mordue, W., Mordue (Luntz), A.J. 2005 Repellent efficiency of BayRepel against Culicoides impunctatus (Diptera:Ceratopogonidae). Parasitol. Res. 95: 427-429
Nolan, D.V., Dallas, J.F. Mordue (Luntz), A.J. 2004 Molecular taxonomy and population structure of a Culicoides midge vector. Vet. Ital. 40 (3) 352-359.
Olagbemiro, T.O., Birkett, M.A., Mordue, (Luntz), A.J. Pickett, J.A. 2004 Laboratory and field responses of the pathogen-vectoring mosquito, Culex quinquefasiatus, to plant-derived Culex spp. oviposition pheromone and the oviposition cue skatole. J. Chem. Ecol. 30 (5) 965-975.
Dallas, J.F., Cruickshank, R.H., Linton, Y.M., Nolan, D.V., Patakakis, M., Braverman, Y., Capela, R., Pena, I., Meiswinkel, R., Baylis, M., Mellor, P.S. and Mordue, (Luntz), A.J. (2003) Phylogenetic status and matrilineal structure of the biting midge, Culicoides imicola, in Portugal, Rhodes and Israel. Med & Vet. Entomol. 17 379-387.
Mordue (Luntz), A.J. (2003) Arthropod semiochemicals: mosquitoes midges and sealice. Biochemical Society Transactions. 31, 128-133.
Mordue (Luntz), A.J. & Mordue W (2003) Midge Chemical Ecology. The Biologist. 50 (4) 159-162.
Billker, O., Shaw, M.K., Jones, I.W., Ley, V., Mordue, (Luntz) A.J. and Sinden, R.E. 2002. Azadirachtin Disrupts Formation of Organised Microtubule Arrays during Micrrogametogenesis of Plasmodium berghei. J. Eukaryottt. Microbiol. 49(6) pp. 489-497.
Allan, E.J., Eeswara, J.P., Jarvis, A.P., Mordue, (Luntz) A.J., Morgan, E.D. & Stuchbury, T. 2002. Induction of hairy root cultures of Azadirachta indica A. Juss. and their production of azadirachtin and other important insect bioactive metabolites. Plant Cell Rep 21: 374-379.
Carpenter, S., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., and Mordue, W. (2001) Oviposition in Culicoides impunctatus under laboratory conditions. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 101: 123-129.
Ingvarsdottir, A., Birkett, M.A., Duce, I., Genna, R., Mordue, W., Pickett, J., Wadhams, L. and Mordue (Luntz), A.J. (2002). Semiochemical strategies for sea lice control: host location cues. Pest Management Science, 58: 537-545
Ingvarsdottir, Birkett, M. A., Duce, I. A., Mordue, W., Pickett, A.J Wadhams, L. J., and Mordue (Luntz), A.J. (2002). Behavioural responses of the parasitic sea louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, to mating related semiochemicals. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 28, 2107-2117.
Linton, Y.M., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., Cruickshank, R.H., Meiswinkel, R., Mellor, P.S., Dallas, J.F. (2002). Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene of five species of the Culicoides imicola species complex. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 16, 1-8.
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