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Enhanced Iteroparity Is a Correlated Response to Direct Selection on Blood Feeding in a Mosquito. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Coq. (Diptera: Culicidae). Previous studies have focused on the fitness benefits of variable larval environment. ABSTRACT Herein, we determine life‐history consequences of selection on blood feeding in a polymorphic population of the pitcher‐plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii Coq. (Diptera: Culicidae). All populations of W.
Borowczak RJ, Wood MA, Bradshaw WE, Armbruster PA, Holzapfel CM.   +4 more
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Thermal stress exposure of pupal oriental fruit fly has strong and trait‐specific consequences in adult flies

Physiological Entomology, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 35-44, March 2023., 2023
Impact of pupal heat stress on heat tolerance and longevity in adult Bartrocera dorsalis flies. Abstract Global climate change is projected to increase the incidence of heat waves, their magnitude and duration resulting in insects experiencing increasing environmental stress in both natural and managed ecosystems.
Reyard Mutamiswa, Vimbai Lisa Tarusikirwa, Casper Nyamukondiwa, Ross N. Cuthbert, Frank Chidawanyika   +4 more
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Prey capture by the non‐native carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea across sites in Britain and Ireland

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
We surveyed prey capture by the carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea at six sites in its non‐native range. We demonstrated that prey capture varies in ecologically significant ways between populations, but overall there is no difference in prey capture patterns in the plants non‐native compared to native range. Abstract The carnivorous pitcher
Rebecca Whatmore, Paul J. Wood, Ciara Dwyer, Jonathan Millett   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Worldwide impacts of landscape anthropization on mosquito abundance and diversity: A meta‐analysis

Global Change Biology, Volume 28, Issue 23, Page 6857-6871, December 2022., 2022
Understanding how land‐use changes affect mosquito abundance and diversity is a step towards a better understanding of vector‐borne pathogen dynamics in human‐modified landscapes. In this meta‐analysis, we highlight that urbanization, deforestation, and agricultural development lead to a general decline in mosquito diversity and a decrease in most ...
Antoine Perrin, Olivier Glaizot, Philippe Christe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conserved molecular pathways underlying biting in two divergent mosquito genera

Evolutionary Applications, Volume 15, Issue 5, Page 878-890, May 2022., 2022
Abstract Mosquitoes transmit a wide variety of devastating pathogens when they bite vertebrate hosts and feed on their blood. However, three entire mosquito genera and many individual species in other genera have evolved a nonbiting life history in which blood is not required to produce eggs.
Alden Siperstein, Sarah Marzec, Megan L. Fritz, Christina M. Holzapfel, William E. Bradshaw, Peter A. Armbruster, Megan E. Meuti   +6 more
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Cemeteries as sources of Aedes aegypti and other mosquito species in southeastern Puerto Rico

Tropical Medicine &International Health, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 300-309, March 2022., 2022
Abstract Objective To investigate the presence and abundance of mosquito species in containers found in different types of cemeteries in Puerto Rico to assess their importance and make control recommendations. Methods We conducted surveys of containers with water in 16 cemeteries in southeastern Puerto Rico to detect the presence of larvae and pupae of
Luisa M. Otero, Gisela Medina‐Martinez, Manuel Sepúlveda, Verónica Acevedo, Mayra Toro, Roberto Barrera   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate influences the response of community functional traits to local conditions in bromeliad invertebrate communities

Ecography, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 440-452, March 2021., 2021
Functional traits determine an organism's performance in a given environment and as such determine which organisms will be found where. Species respond to local conditions, but also to larger scale gradients, such as climate. Trait ecology links these responses of species to community composition and species distributions.
Laura Melissa Guzman, M. Kurtis Trzcinski, Ignacio M. Barberis, Régis Céréghino, Diane S. Srivastava, Benjamin Gilbert, Valério D. Pillar, Paula M. de Omena, A. Andrew M. MacDonald, Bruno Corbara, Céline Leroy, Fabiola Ospina Bautista, Gustavo Q. Romero, Pavel Kratina, Vanderlei J. Debastiani, Ana Z. Gonįalves, Nicholas A. C. Marino, Vinicius F. Farjalla, Barbara A. Richardson, Michael J. Richardson, Olivier Dézerald, Gustavo C. O. Piccoli, Merlijn Jocqué, Guillermo Montero   +23 more
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Immatures of Wyeomyia (Tryamyia) aporonoma (Diptera: Culicidae) Collected in Artificial Breeding in the South Brazil

EntomoBrasilis, 2016
. Reported is a date of immature forms of Wyeomyia (Triamyia) aporonoma Dyar & Knab in artificial container, associated with Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) is provided. The record was made during entomological survey at the municipality of Matinhos,
Allan Martins da Silva, Roderlei Araújo, Enéas Cordeiro Souza Filho   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity and abundance of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) in a fragment of Amazon Cerrado in Macapá, State of Amapá, Brazil

EntomoBrasilis, 2020
The Neotropical region has the highest diversity of species, but despite this diversity, this region presents many sampling gaps. The objective of this study was to study the diversity of the mosquitoes of family Culicidae (Diptera: Culicomorpha) as well
Jose Ferreira Saraiva, Ahana Maitra, Raimundo Nonato Picanço Souto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wyeomyia luteoventralis Theobald, the type species of the subgenus Dendromyia Theobald (Diptera: Culicidae)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1995
Wyeomyia (Dendromyia) luteoventralis is redescribed from females, males, larvae and pupae collected at the type locality, in Brazil, and compared to the closely related species. At least six species - Wy. luteoventralis, Wy. ypsipola, Wy.
Monique Albuquerque Motta, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source