Updated distribution maps of predominant Culex mosquitoes across the Americas.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Estimates of the geographical distribution of Culex mosquitoes in the Americas have been limited to state and provincial levels in the United States and Canada and based on data from the 1980s. Since these estimates were made, there have been many more documented observations of mosquitoes and new methods have been developed for species distribution modeling. Moreover, mosquito distributions are affected by environmental conditions, which have changed since the 1980s. This calls for updated estimates of these distributions to understand the risk of emerging and re-emerging mosquito-borne diseases.

Methods

We used contemporary mosquito data, environmental drivers, and a machine learning ecological niche model to create updated estimates of the geographical range of

SUBMITTER: Gorris ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8542338 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature