Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi.

ABSTRACT: Extrinsic environmental factors influence the spatiotemporal dynamics of many organisms, including insects that transmit the pathogens responsible for vector-borne diseases (VBDs). Temperature is an especially important constraint on the fitness of a wide variety of ectothermic insects. A mechanistic understanding of how temperature impacts traits of ectotherms, and thus the distribution of ectotherms and vector-borne infections, is key to predicting the consequences of climate change on transmission of VBDs like malaria. However, the response of transmission to temperature and other drivers is complex, as thermal traits of ectotherms are typically nonlinear, and they interact to determine transmission constraints. In this study, we assess and compare the effect of temperature on the trans

SUBMITTER: Villena OC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9357211 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature