ArticleJournal of medical entomology2017
Environmental Drivers of Seasonal Patterns of Host Utilization by Culiseta melanura (Diptera: Culicidae) in Florida.
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- Blood-Meal Hosts of the Enzootic Vector of Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus, Culiseta melanura, in Michigan, United States.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal Environmental Drivers of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in Central Florida: Towards a Predictive Model for a Lethal Disease.Journal of medical entomology · 2022Article
- Characterization of triatomine bloodmeal sources using direct Sanger sequencing and amplicon deep sequencing methods.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Identification of Mosquito Bloodmeals Collected in Diverse Habitats in Malaysian Borneo Using COI Barcoding.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2020Article
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- Complex Epidemiological Dynamics of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in Florida.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019Article
- Population genomics of Culiseta melanura, the principal vector of Eastern equine encephalitis virus in the United States.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Barcoding blood meals: New vertebrate-specific primer sets for assigning taxonomic identities to host DNA from mosquito blood meals.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
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Abstract
Field studies were carried out in four Florida counties to investigate winter and spring ecology of host use by Culiseta melanura (Coquillet), the primary vector of eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus (EEEV) in North America. Bloodmeal analysis by PCR was used to identify 233 host bloodmeals, which mainly originated from birds (78.5%) and reptiles (17.2%), primarily Anolis spp. lizards. Across counties, the percentage of bloodmeals from reptiles (7-37% depending upon county) increased with increasing day length and temperature in the spring. Multiple logistic regression revealed that differences in reptile host use across collection sites were largely explained by differences in average day length and temperature on the day of collection, and is probably owing to environment-driven behavioral patterns of ectothermic animals. Although past studies have demonstrated reptile biting by epizootic vectors of EEEV, including Culex (Melanoconion) spp., this is the first study to demonstrate widespread and common feeding upon ectothermic hosts by Cs. melanura. This work suggests that reptiles, particularly anole lizards, play a role in the ecology of EEEV in Florida either as amplifying hosts or as noncompetent hosts which dilute vector feedings thereby suppressing transmission. Detailed laboratory studies investigating impacts of environmental variables (temperature and photoperiod) on EEEV competence of anoles are needed to assess whether these animals support virus amplification.
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