Dr. Daniel E. Sonenshine

Professor Emeritus and Eminent Scholar

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy, 1959
University of Maryland

Bachelor of Arts, 1955
City College of New York
(now the City College of the City University of New York)

Biol 300, Introduction to Parasitology
Biol 449/549, Radiobiology
Biol 704/804, Acarology
Biol 717/817, Medical Entomology

Research Interests:

Research on ticks and tick-borne diseases, including but not limited to Lyme borreliosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Three current projects concern 1) the identification of the juvenile hormone regulating development and reproduction in ticks, in collaboration with scientists at the North Carolina State University; 2) improvements in the development of the pheromone-impregnated tick decoy for control of ticks on livestock and wildlife, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Florida; and 3) studies on the immune system of ticks and the mechanisms used by tick-borne vertebrate pathogens to evade it.

Selected Publications:

Sonenshine, D. E., S. A. Allan, R. A. I. Norval, and M. J. Burridge. Self-treating applicator for control of ticks on deer. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 10: 149-154.

Norval, R. A. I., D. E. Sonenshine, S. A. Allan, and M. J. Burridge. Efficacy of pheromone-acaricide impregnated tail-tag decoys for control of bont ticks, Amblyomma hebraeum (Acari: Ixodidae) on cattle in Zimbabwe. Experimental and Applied Acarology 20: 31-46.

Sonenshine, D. E., R. S. Ratzlaff, S. Demmerle, J. Troyer, B. Annis, and S. Jenkins. 1995. Borrelia burgdorferi in eastern Virginia: comparison between a coastal and inland locality. Amer. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 53: 123-133.

Biology of Ticks. Volumes 1 and 2, by Daniel E. Sonenshine. Oxford University Press, New York. Volume 1 (published 1991) (ISBN 0-19-505910-7), with 449 pages and more than 400 figures; volume 2 (published, 1993)(ISBN 0-19-508431-4), 465 pages and 228 figures. This work covers all aspects of the biology, morphology, systematics, physiology, biochemistry, ecology, disease relationships, and control of these important parasite and disease vector organisms.

Ecological Dynamics of Tick-borne Zoonoses. 1994. Oxford University Press. Edited by Daniel E. Sonenshine, Old Dominion University, and Thomas N. Mather, University of Rhode Island. (ISBN 0-19-507313-4), includes 13 chapters with 21 contributors; 447 pp.