Effects of temperature and nutrition stress on Anopheles stephensi, an Indian urban malaria vector.

ABSTRACT: Changing climate and complexity in ecological landscape can potentially expand the geographic distribution of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) to adapt and transmit various vector-borne diseases, including malaria. Anopheles stephensi is a potential urban malaria vector in the Indian subcontinent. Temperature and nutrients are the important environmental stressors, which influence the life cycle and vectorial competence of mosquitoes. Three experimental setups were designed in the laboratory by exposing An. stephensi to low-temperature (LT) at 4 °C for eggs and 18 ± 1 °C for larvae to adults, high-temperature (HT) at 35.5 ± 1 °C for all life stages, and low nutrition (NT) at 33 mg/100 larvae. Baseline assays were conducted before each experiment. Stress was induced to eggs, larvae, pupae an

SUBMITTER: Ghosh C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12366060 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature