MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies.

ABSTRACT: Mosquitoes transmit medically important human pathogens, including viruses like dengue virus and parasites such as Plasmodium spp., the causative agent of malaria. Mosquito microbiomes are critically important for the ability of mosquitoes to transmit disease-causing agents. However, while large collections of bacterial isolates and genomic data exist for vertebrate microbiomes, the vast majority of work in mosquitoes to date is based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon data that provides limited taxonomic resolution and no functional information. To address this gap and facilitate future studies using experimental microbiome manipulations, we generated a bacterial Mosquito-Associated Isolate Collection (MosAIC) consisting of 392 bacterial isolates with extensive metadata and high-quality draft geno

SUBMITTER: Foo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11633956 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature