Ashley P. G. Dowling Source Confirmed

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Federal Grant PI High Impact

Professor

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

30 h-index 156 pubs 3,629 cited

Research Areas

Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research Advanced Neural Network Applications Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Vector-borne infectious diseases Species Distribution and Climate Change Plant and animal studies

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Ashley P. G. Dowling is a Professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville whose research focuses on entomology and acarology, with a significant emphasis on insect and mite identification, ecology, and the application of artificial intelligence in biological research. Dowling's work includes the description of new species, such as a new species of *Ultratenuipalpus* from Brazil, and the cataloging of existing species, including spinturnicid mites from Brazil. Their research also investigates the ecological roles of arthropods, such as the contribution of nocturnal pollinators to apple production and the study of ectoparasitic mites causing dermatitis in humans. A key area of their funded work is the development of AI systems for automated identification of ground-dwelling arthropods, a project supported by a $785,872 NSF grant where Dowling serves as PI. This research network includes collaborations with Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Pierce Helton, and Khoa Luu, all from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, with whom Dowling has co-authored multiple publications. Dowling's scholarship is recognized by a high-impact researcher designation, evidenced by an h-index of 30 and over 3,600 citations across 156 publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 30
  • Publications: 156
  • Citations: 3,629

Selected Publications

  • Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world (2026) DOI
  • Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world (2026) DOI
  • Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world (2026) DOI
  • Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world (2026) DOI
  • Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world (2026) DOI
  • Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world (2026) DOI
  • A survey of vector-borne bacteria in bat-associated mites (Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae and Spinturnicidae) from Brazil reveals the presence of Ehrlichia spp. (2026) DOI
  • Sleeping with the enemy II: Expanding the ecological, molecular, and epidemiological knowledge of the tropical fowl mite, Ornithonyssus bursa (Berlese, 1888) (2025) DOI
  • Insect-Foundation: A Foundation Model and Large Multimodal Dataset for Vision-Language Insect Understanding (2025) DOI
  • Contribution to the knowledge of <i>Periglischrus iheringi</i> Oudemans, 1902 (Mesostigmata: Spinturnicidae) associated with <i>Artibeus</i> bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Brazil (2025) DOI
  • Molecular evidence of Wolbachia in bat-associated mite Periglischrus Iheringi Oudemans, 1902 (Mesostigmata: Spinturnicidae) from Brazil (2024) DOI
  • Two case reports of the parasitism of Ophionyssus natricis (Gervais, 1844) (Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae) in captive Epicrates crassus (Cope) (Squamata: Boidae) in Brazil (2024) DOI
  • Insect-Foundation: A Foundation Model and Large-Scale 1M Dataset for Visual Insect Understanding (2024) DOI
  • Nasal mites in <i>Molothrus ater</i> (Aves: Icteridae) from different geographic locations in the USA (2024) DOI
  • Molecular detection of Bartonella spp. in bat-associated macronyssid mites (Acari: Macronyssidae) from Southern and Southeastern Brazil (2024) DOI

Federal Grants 1 $785,872 total

NSF PI

Collaborative Research: BIO-AI: Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence System for High Throughput Automated Identification of Ground-dwelling Arthropods

Cross-BIO Activities $785,872

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Xuan-Bac Nguyen University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 6 shared publications Hoang-Quan Nguyen University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 4 shared publications Pierce Helton University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Khoa Luu University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Stephen M. Robertson University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Erica L. Westerman University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Neelendra K. Joshi University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Kelly Loftin University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication

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