Mosquito Blood-feeding Ecology

Emma Hambright '20

About the Research

Dr. Sirot studied the behavior of white-faced capuchins, squirrel monkeys, and red colobus monkeys before beginning graduate school. She is now combining her interests in mosquito and monkey behavior by initiating a study of mosquito-monkey-microbe interactions at the Lomas de Barbudal Biological Reserve in Costa Rica. This research is in collaboration with Adriana Troyo Rodriguez, Susan Perry (UCLA), the director of the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project, Diana Ortiz (Westminster College), and Larry Phelan (The Ohio State University).

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Publication on Non-human primates:

  • Putz, F.E., Sirot, L.K., and Pinard, M.A. (2001) Tropical forest management and wildlife: silvicultural effects on forest structure, fruit production, and locomotion of arboreal mammals, In The Cutting Edge: Conserving Wildlife in Logged Tropical Forests; Robert A. Fimbel, John G. Robinson, and Alejandro Grajal, eds. Columbia University Press: New York, New York, pp. 11-35.

  • Boinski, S. and Sirot, L. (1997) Uncertain conservation status of squirrel monkeys in Costa Rica,Saimiri oerstedi oerstedi and Saimiri oerstedi citrinellus. Folia Primatologica, 68, 181-193.