Unexpected behavioural adaptation of yellow fever mosquitoes in response to high temperatures.

ABSTRACT: Temperature is a major ecological driver of mosquito-borne diseases as it influences the life-history of both the mosquito and the pathogen harboured within it. Understanding the mosquitoes' thermal biology is essential to inform risk prediction models of such diseases. Mosquitoes can respond to temperatures by microhabitat selection through thermal preference. However, it has not yet been considered that mosquitoes are likely to adapt to changing temperatures, for example during climate change, and alter their preference over evolutionary time. We investigated this by rearing six cohorts of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti at two temperatures (24 °C, 30 °C) for 20 generations and used these cohorts to explicitly separate the effects of long-term evolution and within-generation accl

SUBMITTER: Hug DOH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10864274 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature