QTL Determining Diel Flight Activity in Male Culex pipiens Mosquitoes.

ABSTRACT: Members of the Culex pipiens complex differ in physiological traits that facilitate their survival in diverse environments. Assortative mating within the complex occurs in some regions where autogenous (the ability to lay a batch of eggs without a blood meal) and anautogenous populations are sympatric, and differences in mating behaviors may be involved. For example, anautogenous populations mate in flight/swarms, while autogenous populations often mate at rest. Here, we characterized flight activity of males and found that anautogenous strain males were crepuscular, while autogenous strain males were crepuscular and nocturnal, with earlier activity onset times. We conducted quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping to explore the genetic basis of circadian chronotype (crepuscular vs. crepusc

SUBMITTER: Hickner PV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6503456 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature