Quantitative Trait Locus Determining the Time of Blood Feeding in Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae).

ABSTRACT: Mosquitoes and other blood feeding arthropods are vectors of pathogens causing serious human diseases, such as Plasmodium spp. (malaria), Wuchereria bancrofti (lymphatic filariasis), Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease), and viruses causing dengue, Zika, West Nile, chikungunya, and yellow fever. Among the most effective strategies for the prevention of vector-borne diseases are those aimed at reducing human-vector interactions, such as insecticide applications and insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs). In some areas where ITNs are widely used, behavioral adaptations have resulted in mosquitoes shifting their time of blood feeding to earlier or later in the night when the bed nets are not being employed. Little is known about the genetic basis of these behavioral shifts. We conducted quantitat

SUBMITTER: Hickner PV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9473656 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature