ArticleCommunications biology2021
Sex, age, and parental harmonic convergence behavior affect the immune performance of Aedes aegypti offspring.
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- The effects of mating and blood feeding on the immune defense of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
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- Mimicking superinfection exclusion disrupts alphavirus infection and transmission in the yellow fever mosquitoProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Harmonic convergence coordinates swarm mating by enhancing mate detection in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Sexual selection theory meets disease vector control: Testing harmonic convergence as a "good genes" signal in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Mosquito Sexual Selection and Reproductive Control Programs.Trends in parasitology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Harmonic convergence is a potential cue, female mosquitoes use to choose male mates. However, very little is known about the benefits this choice confers to offspring performance. Using Aedes aegypti (an important vector of human disease), we investigated whether offspring of converging parental pairs showed differences in immune competence compared to offspring derived from non-converging parental pairs. Here we show that harmonic convergence, along with several other interacting factors (sex, age, reproductive, and physiological status), significantly shaped offspring immune responses (melanization and response to a bacterial challenge). Harmonic convergence had a stronger effect on the immune response of male offspring than on female offspring. Further, female offspring from converging parental pairs disseminated dengue virus more quickly than offspring derived from non-converging parental pairs. Our results provide insight into a wide range of selective pressures shaping mosquito immune function and could have important implications for disease transmission and control.
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