Everything about Muscidae

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: MuscidaeA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Bacterial communities and prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes carried within house flies (Diptera: Muscidae) associated with beef and dairy cattle farmsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: ... Diptères (Brachycères)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Transmission of pathogens by Stomoxys flies (Diptera, Muscidae): a reviewCited 315 times
5. Go sideways: FanniidaeA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: LonchaeidaeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Transmission of pathogens by Stomoxys flies (Diptera, Muscidae): a review

  Frédéric Baldacchino, Vithee Muenworn, Marc Desquesnes · 2013 · Parasite · 315 citations

• Insecticidal Properties of Several Monoterpenoids to the House Fly (Diptera: Muscidae), Red Flour Beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), and Southern Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

  Pamela J. Rice, Joel R. Coats · 1994 · Journal of Economic Entomology · 267 citations

• New Diets for Production of House Flies and Stable Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) in the Laboratory

  Jerome A. Hogsette · 1992 · Journal of Economic Entomology · 240 citations

• Economic Impact of Stable Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) on Dairy and Beef Cattle Production

  David B. Taylor, Roger D. Moon, Darrell R. Mark · 2012 · Journal of Medical Entomology · 234 citations

• Insecticidal Activity of Monoterpenoids to Western Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Twospotted Spider Mite (Acari: Tetranychidae), and House Fly (Diptera: Muscidae)

  Sangkyun Lee, Rong Tsao, Christopher Peterson · 1997 · Journal of Economic Entomology · 182 citations

• Insecticide Resistance and Cross-Resistance in the House Fly (Diptera: Muscidae)

  Nannan Liu, Xin Yue · 2000 · Journal of Economic Entomology · 163 citations

• Epidemiological Potential of Excretion and Regurgitation by <I>Musca domestica</I> (Diptera: Muscidae) in the Dissemination of <I>Escherichia coli</I> O157: H7 to Food

  Toshinori Sasaki, Mutsuo Kobayashi, Noriaki Agui · 2000 · Journal of Medical Entomology · 144 citations

• Diversity and Contribution of the Intestinal Bacterial Community to the Development ofMusca domestica(Diptera: Muscidae) Larvae

  L. Zurek, C. Schal, D. W. Watson · 2000 · Journal of Medical Entomology · 139 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Bacterial communities and prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes carried within house flies (Diptera: Muscidae) associated with beef and dairy cattle farms

  Saraswoti Neupane, Justin L Talley, David B Taylor · 2023 · Journal of Medical Entomology · 19 citations

• Insecticidal and Synergistic Potential of Three Monoterpenoids against the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae), and the House Fly, Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae)

  Oshneil S. Baker, Edmund J. Norris, Edwin R. Burgess · 2023 · Molecules · 18 citations

• Species Discrimination of Stomoxys Flies S. bengalensis, S. calcitrans, and S. sitiens (Diptera: Muscidae) Using Wing Geometric Morphometrics

  Tanasak Changbunjong, Tanawat Chaiphongpachara, Thekhawet Weluwanarak · 2023 · Animals · 18 citations

• The variation of a cytochrome P450 gene, CYP6G4, drives the evolution of Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) resistance to insecticides in China

  Chunmei You, Lulu Zhang, Jiajia Song · 2023 · International Journal of Biological Macromolecules · 18 citations

• Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) as a biological model for the assessment of magnetite nanoparticles toxicity

  Noura A. Toto, Hanan I. Elhenawy, Abdelazeem S. Eltaweil · 2022 · Science of The Total Environment · 18 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕... Diptères (Brachycères)E. A. Séguy · 1926
• 📕Studies on Australian Muscidae (Diptera)Adrian Charles Pont · 1900
• 📕Revision der Muscinae der äthiopischen RegionEberhard Zielke · 1971
• 📕Sarcophagidae, Calliphoridae, and Muscidae (Diptera) of the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal, IndiaShuvra Kanti Sinha · 2009
• The Stomoxyine biting flies of the world: Diptera, MuscidaeFritz Zumpt · 1973
• The stomoxyine biting flies of the worldFritz Zumpt · 1973
• 📕Diptera: cyclorrhaphaE. C. M. D'Assis Fonseca · 1968
• The biology of the Muscidae of the worldPeter Skidmore · 1985

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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