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Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns
Feeding upon vertebrate blood by mosquitoes permits transmission of diverse pathogens, including viruses, protozoa, and nematodes. Despite over a century of intensive study, no mosquito species is known to specialize on non-vertebrate hosts. Using molecular analyses and field observations, we provid...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271973 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0096-5 |
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author | Reeves, Lawrence E. Holderman, Chris J. Blosser, Erik M. Gillett-Kaufman, Jennifer L. Kawahara, Akito Y. Kaufman, Phillip E. Burkett-Cadena, Nathan D. |
author_facet | Reeves, Lawrence E. Holderman, Chris J. Blosser, Erik M. Gillett-Kaufman, Jennifer L. Kawahara, Akito Y. Kaufman, Phillip E. Burkett-Cadena, Nathan D. |
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description | Feeding upon vertebrate blood by mosquitoes permits transmission of diverse pathogens, including viruses, protozoa, and nematodes. Despite over a century of intensive study, no mosquito species is known to specialize on non-vertebrate hosts. Using molecular analyses and field observations, we provide the first evidence, to our knowledge, that a mosquito, Uranotaenia sapphirina, specializes on annelid hosts (earthworms and leeches) while its sympatric congener, Uranotaenia lowii, feeds only on anurans (frogs and toads). Our results demonstrate that Ur. sapphirina feeds on annelid hosts (100% of identified blood meals; n = 72; collected throughout Florida), findings that are supported by field observations of these mosquitoes feeding on Sparganophilus worms and freshwater leeches. These findings indicate that adult mosquitoes utilize a much broader range of host taxa than previously recognized, with implications for epidemiology and the evolution of host use patterns in mosquitoes. |
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spelling | pubmed-61237772018-09-28 Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns Reeves, Lawrence E. Holderman, Chris J. Blosser, Erik M. Gillett-Kaufman, Jennifer L. Kawahara, Akito Y. Kaufman, Phillip E. Burkett-Cadena, Nathan D. Commun Biol Article Feeding upon vertebrate blood by mosquitoes permits transmission of diverse pathogens, including viruses, protozoa, and nematodes. Despite over a century of intensive study, no mosquito species is known to specialize on non-vertebrate hosts. Using molecular analyses and field observations, we provide the first evidence, to our knowledge, that a mosquito, Uranotaenia sapphirina, specializes on annelid hosts (earthworms and leeches) while its sympatric congener, Uranotaenia lowii, feeds only on anurans (frogs and toads). Our results demonstrate that Ur. sapphirina feeds on annelid hosts (100% of identified blood meals; n = 72; collected throughout Florida), findings that are supported by field observations of these mosquitoes feeding on Sparganophilus worms and freshwater leeches. These findings indicate that adult mosquitoes utilize a much broader range of host taxa than previously recognized, with implications for epidemiology and the evolution of host use patterns in mosquitoes. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6123777/ /pubmed/30271973 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0096-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Reeves, Lawrence E. Holderman, Chris J. Blosser, Erik M. Gillett-Kaufman, Jennifer L. Kawahara, Akito Y. Kaufman, Phillip E. Burkett-Cadena, Nathan D. Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns |
title | Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns |
title_full | Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns |
title_fullStr | Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns |
title_full_unstemmed | Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns |
title_short | Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns |
title_sort | identification of uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271973 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0096-5 |
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