Scope of Studies – Medical / Forensic Entomology

            Dr. Joy’s publication record spans a period of 40 years. He has published

papers in 28 different scientific journals on 16 different groups of parasitic and free-living organisms from protozoans through arthropods. More than 30 students have appeared as co-authors on these publications.

            During this time frame, Dr. Joy has also presented numerous talks before lay and scientific audiences on subjects as diverse as forensic entomology,mosquito vectors of pathogenic agents, invasive species, and helminth and copepod-induced pathology in exothermic animals. The following is a sample of publications dealing with various groups of organisms associated with medical or forensic entomology.

 

“mites”

Joy, J. E. and J. W. Hively. 1990. Population dynamics of adult Unionicola formosa (Acari:             Hydracarina), a parasite of Anodonta imbecillis (Mollusca: Bivalvia), in West             Virginia. Brimleyana 16:33-42.

 

“fleas”

 Joy, J. E. and N. J. Briscoe. 1994. Parasitic arthropods of white-footed mice at McClintic             Wildlife Station, WV. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association             10:108-111.

 

“mosquitoes”

Joy, J. E. and N. Sullivan. 2005. Occurrence of tire inhabiting mosquito larvae in different            geographic regions of West Virginia. Journal of the American Mosquito Control              Association. 21:380-386.

Joy, J. E. 2004. Larval mosquitoes in abandoned tire pile sites from West Virginia.                          Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 20:12-17.

Joy, J. E. A. A. Hanna, and B. A. Kennedy. 2003. Spatial and temporal variation in the              mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) inhabiting waste tires in Nicholas County, West              Virginia. Journal of Medical Entomology 40:73-77.

Joy, J. E. and J. T. Clay. 2002. Habitat use by larval mosquitoes in West Virginia.                          American Midland Naturalist 148:163-175.

Joy, J. E. and A. M. Hildreth-Whitehair. 2000. Larval habitat characterization for                          Aedes triseriatus (Say), the mosquito vector of LaCrosse encephalitis in West              Virginia. Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 11:79-83.

Joy, J. E., C. A. Allman, and B. T. Dowell. 1994. Mosquitoes of West Virginia: An update.              Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 10:115-118.

 

“carrion flies”                      

Joy, J. E., V. A. D'Avanzo. 2007. Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from West
             Virginia. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science 79: 63-66.

Joy, J. E., N. L. Liette, and H. L. Harrah. 2006. Carrion fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larval              colonization of sunlit and shaded pig carcasses in West Virginia, USA. Forensic              Science International 164:183-192.

Joy, J. E., M. L. Herrell, and P. C. Rogers. 2002. Larval fly activity on sunlit versus shaded              raccoon carrion in southwestern West Virginia with special reference to the black              blowfly (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Journal of Medical Entomology 39:392-397.