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Elevated atmospheric CO(2) promoted speciation in mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae)
Mosquitoes are of great medical significance as vectors of deadly diseases. Despite this, little is known about their evolutionary history or how their present day diversity has been shaped. Within a phylogenetic framework, here we show a strong correlation between climate change and mosquito specia...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6218564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30417119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0191-7 |
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author | Tang, Chufei Davis, Katie E. Delmer, Cyrille Yang, Ding Wills, Matthew A. |
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description | Mosquitoes are of great medical significance as vectors of deadly diseases. Despite this, little is known about their evolutionary history or how their present day diversity has been shaped. Within a phylogenetic framework, here we show a strong correlation between climate change and mosquito speciation rates: the first time to our knowledge such an effect has been demonstrated for insects. Information theory reveals that although climate change is correlated with mosquito evolution there are other important factors at play. We identify one such driver to be the rise of mammals, which are predominant hosts of Culicidae. Regardless of the precise mechanism, we demonstrate a strong historical association. This finding, taken in combination with projected rises in atmospheric CO(2) from anthropogenic activity, has important implications for culicid vector distributions and abundance, and consequently for human health. |
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spelling | pubmed-62185642018-11-09 Elevated atmospheric CO(2) promoted speciation in mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) Tang, Chufei Davis, Katie E. Delmer, Cyrille Yang, Ding Wills, Matthew A. Commun Biol Article Mosquitoes are of great medical significance as vectors of deadly diseases. Despite this, little is known about their evolutionary history or how their present day diversity has been shaped. Within a phylogenetic framework, here we show a strong correlation between climate change and mosquito speciation rates: the first time to our knowledge such an effect has been demonstrated for insects. Information theory reveals that although climate change is correlated with mosquito evolution there are other important factors at play. We identify one such driver to be the rise of mammals, which are predominant hosts of Culicidae. Regardless of the precise mechanism, we demonstrate a strong historical association. This finding, taken in combination with projected rises in atmospheric CO(2) from anthropogenic activity, has important implications for culicid vector distributions and abundance, and consequently for human health. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6218564/ /pubmed/30417119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0191-7 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 Tang, Chufei Davis, Katie E. Delmer, Cyrille Yang, Ding Wills, Matthew A. Elevated atmospheric CO(2) promoted speciation in mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) |
title | Elevated atmospheric CO(2) promoted speciation in mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) |
title_full | Elevated atmospheric CO(2) promoted speciation in mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) |
title_fullStr | Elevated atmospheric CO(2) promoted speciation in mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) |
title_full_unstemmed | Elevated atmospheric CO(2) promoted speciation in mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) |
title_short | Elevated atmospheric CO(2) promoted speciation in mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) |
title_sort | elevated atmospheric co(2) promoted speciation in mosquitoes (diptera, culicidae) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6218564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30417119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0191-7 |
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