Gene expression profile of Aedes aegypti females in courtship and mating.

ABSTRACT: Aedes aegypti is the most synanthropic and anthropophilic mosquito of Culicidae. This species always cohabits with humans and is extremely opportunistic. Vector dispersal is directly related to the ability of the females on successfully finding a mate in a generally patchy urban scenario. In the present work, we investigate transcriptional changes in Ae. aegypti females during the courtship process and after mating. We observe a substantial alteration in gene expression triggered just upon contact with Ae. aegypti males, which in turn was not fully correlated to the changes triggered by the contact. After analysing shared significant differentially regulated genes between conspecific contact and insemination, the major part of the observed transcriptomic change triggered by contact is reve

SUBMITTER: Alonso DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6820793 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature