ArticleJournal of medical entomology2014
Seasonal variation in spatial distributions of Anopheles gambiae in a Sahelian village: evidence for aestivation.
Article in Journal of medical entomology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed.
- Continuous mark-release recapture to improve estimates of movement and survival of the African malaria mosquitoes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Variance partitioning reveals contrasting random effect contributions to the density and species composition of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in western Burkina Faso.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
- Requirements for designing cluster randomised control trials to detect suppression of malaria vector population densities.BMC biology · 2025Article
- The role of molecular xenomonitoring for assessing the impact of Ivermectin, Diethylcarbamazine Citrate and Albendazole triple-drug treatment against lymphatic filariasis: A cross-sectional study in the Kenyan coastal region.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- The efficacy of attractive targeted sugar baits in reducing malaria vector abundance in low-endemicity settings of northwest Mali.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Entomological indicators of Plasmodium species transmission in Goma Tsé-Tsé and Madibou districts, in the Republic of Congo.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Potential persistence mechanisms of the major Anopheles gambiae species complex malaria vectors in sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review.Malaria journal · 2023Review
- High Levels of Admixture inInsects · 2022Article
- Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- Adult Anopheles Mosquito Distribution at a Low and High Malaria Transmission Site in Tanzania.BioMed research international · 2022Article
- How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming?eLife · 2021Article
- Lymphatic filariasis, infection status in Culex quinquefasciatus and Anopheles species after six rounds of mass drug administration in Masasi District, Tanzania.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2021Article
- Article
- Article
- Photoperiodic responses of Sahelian malaria mosquitoes Anopheles coluzzii and An. arabiensis.Parasites & vectors · 2017Article
- Chagas disease vector control and Taylor's law.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2017Article
- Tracing the origin of the early wet-seasonEvolutionary applications · 2017Article
- Vector control with driving Y chromosomes: modelling the evolution of resistance.Malaria journal · 2017Article
- The contribution of dietary restriction to extended longevity in the malaria vector Anopheles coluzzii.Parasites & vectors · 2017Article
- Combining two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and metabolomic data in support of dry-season survival in the two main species of the malarial mosquito Anopheles gambiae.Data in brief · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Changes in spatial distribution of mosquitoes over time in a Sahelian village were studied to understand the sources of the mosquitoes during the dry season when no larval sites are found. At that time, the sources of Anopheles gambiae Giles may be local shelters used by aestivating mosquitoes or migrants from distant populations. The mosquito distribution was more aggregated during the dry season, when few houses had densities 7- to 24-fold higher than expected. The high-density houses during the dry season differed from those of the wet season. Most high-density houses during the dry season changed between years, yet their vicinity was rather stable. Scan statistics confirmed the presence of one or two adjacent hotspots in the dry season, usually found on one edge of the village. These hotspots shifted between the early and late dry season. During the wet season, the hotspots were relatively stable near the main larval site. The locations of the hotspots in the wet season and early and late dry season were similar between years. Season-specific, stable, and focal hotspots are inconsistent with the predictions based on the arrival of migrants from distant localities during the dry season, but are consistent with the predictions based on local shelters used by aestivating mosquitoes. Targeting hotspots in Sahelian villages for vector control may not be effective because the degree of aggregation is moderate, the hotspots are not easily predicted, and they are not the sources of the population. However, targeting the dry-season shelters may be highly cost-effective, once they can be identified and predicted.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.