CONCLUSIONS: The present study offers the first map of the occurrence of the major Ae. albopictus kdr alleles across Europe and highlights a differential distribution of the two alleles most strongly associated with pyrethroid resistance, 1016G and 1534C. Our findings also point to the need for enhancing resistance monitoring in the Eastern Mediterranean region, where the two mutations are shown to exist in geographically close areas, with the risk of emergence of highly resistant double...

The findings might overturn a widely held belief that only females pose a disease risk to people, though more research is needed.

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Population growth of pathogen-spreading mosquitoes relies on efficient egg laying. Dong et al. report the behavioral reprogramming that occurs after a blood meal: daytime-biting Aedes aegypti mosquitoes becomes hyperactive and show nocturnal humidity-seeking and egg-laying activity. The clock gene cycle is required for the proper timing and efficiency of egg laying.

Malaria, dengue, Zika virus and West Nile fever are all diseases that can be spread by mosquitoes. Hundreds of thousands of people die from such infections every year.

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Engineering of local Anopheles gambiae under containment enables the generation of a transgenic strain equipped with non-autonomous gene drive capabilities that robustly inhibits genetically diverse P...

Aedes albopictus is invading Western Europe, causing autochthonous cases of arboviral diseases. Through a mechanistic modeling framework, we simulated the impacts of climate changes on the extension ....

The recent detection of populations of the mosquito Aedes vittatus in the Dominican Republic and Cuba has raised concerns over its potential for broader invasion in the Western Hemisphere, and particu...

More than half a million people, the vast majority being children under the age of 5, die annually due to malaria, with Sub-Saharan Africa as the most highly burdened region.

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AbstractSince its invasion of the United States in the 1980s, #Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894) has become a major pest and a significant public health threat in the Southeastern United States. Despite its importance, we know little about its population genetics at fine spatial scales that correspond to the level of management units. To remedy this lack of information, we analyzed Ae. albopictus spatial variation in mosquito abundance and genetic structure in an urban–rural landscape over 2 years (2016 and 2018) in Wake County, NC, United States. We used a reduced representation sequencing method to generate between 1,100 and 30,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms for population genetic analyses. We found spatial variation in both the abundance and genetic diversity, and significant differences in genetic divergence among sites that varied between the 2 years. The year-to-year variation in the population genetic patterns at the within-county scale suggests a dynamic system that requires extensive geographic, temporal, and genomic sampling to resolve.

Moskítóflugur fundust í nóvember í hesthúsi á sveitabæ í Ölfusi. Um er að ræða nýja tegund fyrir landið, ekki sömu og greind var í fyrsta sinn á Íslandi í október.

Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...