ReviewTrends in parasitology2020
Do Mosquitoes Sleep?
Review in Trends in parasitology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Influence of time of day and insecticide treatment on the abundance of Culiseta melanura (Diptera: Culicidae) in resting boxes.Journal of medical entomology · 2026Article
- Revealing the light-regulated circadian rhythm in the vector mosquitoes, Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Control of Aedes albopictus populations by silencing of the vesicular GABA transporter (vgat) and the vesicular monoamine transporter (vmat) genes using recombinant Chlorella shRNA.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
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- Aedes albopictus colonies from different geographic origins differ in their sleep and activity levels but not in the time of peak activity.Medical and veterinary entomology · 2024Article
- Intra-species quantification reveals differences in activity and sleep levels in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti.Medical and veterinary entomology · 2024Article
- Circadian and daily rhythms of disease vector mosquitoes.Current opinion in insect science · 2024Review
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- Sleep: An Essential and Understudied Process in the Biology of Blood-Feeding Arthropods.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
- Behavioral and postural analyses establish sleep-like states for mosquitoes that can impact host landing and blood feeding.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Sleep is a phenomenon conserved across the animal kingdom, where studies on Drosophila melanogaster have revealed that sleep phenotypes and molecular underpinnings are similar to those in mammals. However, little is known about sleep in blood-feeding arthropods, which have a critical role in public health as disease vectors. Specifically, sleep studies in mosquitoes are lacking despite considerable focus on how circadian processes, which have a central role in regulating sleep/wake cycles, impact activity, feeding, and immunity. Here, we review observations which suggest that sleep-like states likely occur in mosquitoes and discuss the potential role of sleep in relation to mosquito biology and their ability to function as disease vectors.
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