Host-Environment Interplay Shapes Fungal Diversity in Mosquitoes.

ABSTRACT: Mosquito larvae encounter diverse assemblages of bacteria (i.e., "microbiota") and fungi in the aquatic environments that they develop in. However, while a number of studies have addressed the diversity and function of microbiota in mosquito life history, relatively little is known about mosquito-fungus interactions outside several key fungal entomopathogens. In this study, we used high-throughput sequencing of internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) metabarcode markers to provide the first simultaneous characterization of the fungal communities in field-collected Aedes albopictus larvae and their associated aquatic environments. Our results reveal unprecedented variation in fungal communities among adjacent but discrete larval breeding habitats. Our results also reveal a distinct fungal comm

SUBMITTER: Tawidian P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8550294 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature