ArticleJournal of insect physiology2017
Physiological characterization and regulation of the contractile properties of the mosquito ventral diverticulum (crop).
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- Fungal microbiota diversity inWellcome open research · 2026Pooled it
- Crop: The Black Box of Mosquito Vector Fitness.Insects · 2026Review
- What goes down may come up: regurgitative behaviors and their underlying gut-brain axes-insights from genetic models and related pathologies.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Aedes albopictus microbiome derives from environmental sources and partitions across distinct host tissues.MicrobiologyOpen · 2023Article
- Bacterial communities of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes differ between crop and midgut tissues.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
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- A laboratory-based study to explore the use of honey-impregnated cards to detect chikungunya virus in mosquito saliva.PloS one · 2021Article
- Stop the crop: Insights into the insecticidal mode of action of cinnamodial against mosquitoes.Pesticide biochemistry and physiology · 2021Article
- Fly foregut and transmission of microbes.Advances in insect physiology · 2019Article
- Innexins: Expression, Regulation, and Functions.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
In adult dipteran insects (flies), the crop is a diverticulum of the esophagus that serves as a food storage organ. The crop pumps stored contents into the alimentary canal for digestion and absorption. The pumping is mediated by peristaltic contractions of the crop musculature. In adult female mosquitoes, the crop (ventral diverticulum) selectively stores sugar solutions (e.g., nectar); proteinaceous blood meals by-pass the crop and are transferred directly to the midgut for digestion. The mechanisms that regulate crop contractions have never been investigated in mosquitoes. Here we provide the first physiological characterization of the contractile properties of the mosquito crop and explore the mechanisms that regulate crop contractions. Using an in vitro bioassay we found that the isolated crop spontaneously contracts in Ringer solution for at least 1 h and its contractions are dependent on extracellular Ca
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