ArticleParasites & vectors2021
Effects of insemination and blood-feeding on locomotor activity of wild-derived females of the malaria mosquito Anopheles coluzzii.
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- Circadian and daily rhythms of disease vector mosquitoes.Current opinion in insect science · 2024Review
- Non-contact detection of pyrethroids widely used in vector control by Anopheles mosquitoes.PloS one · 2024Article
- Evaluation of insemination, blood feeding, and Plasmodium vivax infection effects on locomotor activity patterns of the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi (Diptera: Culicidae).Parasitology research · 2023Article
- Sleep: An Essential and Understudied Process in the Biology of Blood-Feeding Arthropods.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
- Understanding Spatiotemporal Human Mobility Patterns for Malaria Control Using a Multiagent Mobility Simulation Model.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Article
- Diurnal biting of malaria mosquitoes in the Central African Republic indicates residual transmission may be "out of control".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundBehavioural shifts in the canonical location and timing of biting have been reported in natural populations of anopheline malaria vectors following the implementation of insecticide-based indoor vector control interventions. These modifications increase the likelihood of human-vector contact and allow mosquitoes to avoid insecticides, both conditions being favourable to residual transmission of the malarial parasites. The biting behaviour of mosquitoes follows rhythms that are under the control of biological clocks and environmental conditions, modulated by physiological states. In this work we explore modifications of spontaneous locomotor activity expressed by mosquitoes in different physiological states to highlight phenotypic variability associated to circadian control that may contribute to explain residual transmission in the field.
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resultsThe average strength of activity, onset of activity, and acrophase were modulated by both nutritional and insemination status as well as by the light regimen. Inseminated females showed a significant excess of arrhythmic activity under DD. When rhythmicity was observed in DD, females displayed sustained activity also during the subjective day.
conclusionsInsemination and gonotrophic status influence the underlying light and circadian control of chronobiological features of locomotor activity. Overrepresentation of arrhythmic chronotypes as well as the sustained activity of inseminated females during the subjective day under DD conditions suggests potential activity of natural populations of A. coluzzii during daytime under dim conditions, with implications for residual transmission of malarial parasites.
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