Bacteria stimulate hatching of yellow fever mosquito eggs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Aedes aegypti Linnaeus is a peridomestic mosquito that lays desiccation-resistant eggs in water-filled human-made containers. Previous investigations connected egg hatching with declining dissolved oxygen (DO) that is associated with bacterial growth. However, past studies failed to uncouple DO from other potential stimulatory factors and they contained little quantitative information about the microbial community; consequently, a direct role for bacteria or compounds associated with bacteria in stimulating egg hatching cannot be dismissed.

Methodology/principal findings

Environmental factors stimulating hatch of Ae. aegypti eggs were investigated using non-sterile and sterile white oak leaf (WOL) infusions and a bacterial culture composed of a mix of 14 species o

SUBMITTER: Ponnusamy L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3167859 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature