Effect of host infection with Plasmodium gallinaceum on the reproductive capacity of Aedes aegypti

Freier, Jerome E.; Friedman, Stanley

doi:10.1016/0022-2011(76)90117-8

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“…Mosquitoes four days post-infection with P. chabaudi I. Landau & A. Chabaud were also found to be more attracted to infected mice than uninfected ones when offered a second blood meal (Ferguson and Read 2004). However, chickens infected with P. gallinaceum Brumpt were found to be less attractive to Aedes aegypti (L.) than uninfected ones (Freier and Friedman 1976). Although this latter study did not state whether gametocytes were present, other experiments presented in the paper suggest their chickens would have had a parasitaemia of at least 28%.…”

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confidence: 68%

Olfaction in vector-host interactions

Takken¹,

Knols²

2010

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Section: The Attractiveness Of the Odour Of Infected-hostsmentioning

confidence: 68%

Olfaction in vector-host interactions

Takken¹,

Knols²

2010

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“…Super-infection is probably detrimental to mosquitoes, given that even infections acquired just once reduce mosquito fecundity [22-27] and in some cases, survival [14,28-31]. Why then would vectors, or indeed the parasites that depend upon their survival for transmission, have or induce a feeding strategy that increases the risk of multiple infection?…”

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Ferguson

Read

2004

Malar J

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“…However, evidence that the malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.) reduce the survival (Ferguson & Read 2002b) and fecundity (Hacker 1971;Hacker & Kilama 1974;Freier & Friedman 1976;Hogg & Hurd 1995a of their mosquito vectors (Anopheles spp.) continues to accumulate.…”

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The energetic budget ofAnopheles stephensiinfected withPlasmodium chabaudi: is energy depletion a mechanism for virulence?

Rivero

Ferguson

2003

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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Evidence continues to accumulate showing that the malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.) reduce the survival and fecundity of their mosquito vectors (Anopheles spp.). Our ability to identify the possible epidemiological and evolutionary consequences of these parasite-induced fitness reductions has been hampered by a poor understanding of the physiological basis of these shifts. Here, we explore whether the reductions in fecundity and longevity are the result of a parasite-mediated depletion or reallocation of the energetic resources of the mosquito. Mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium chabaudi were expected to have less energetic resources than uninfected mosquitoes, and energy levels were predicted to be lowest in mosquitoes infected with the most virulent parasite genotypes. Not only was there no evidence of a parasitemediated reduction in the overall energetic budget of mosquitoes, but Plasmodium was actually associated with increased levels of glucose, a key insect nutritional and energetic resource. The data strongly suggest the existence of an increase in sugar feeding in mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium. We suggest different adaptive explanations for an enhanced sugar uptake in infected mosquitoes and call for more studies to investigate the physiological role of glucose in the Plasmodium-mosquito interaction.

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Effect of host infection with Plasmodium gallinaceum on the reproductive capacity of Aedes aegypti

Cited by 40 publications

References 13 publications

Olfaction in vector-host interactions

Olfaction in vector-host interactions

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The energetic budget ofAnopheles stephensiinfected withPlasmodium chabaudi: is energy depletion a mechanism for virulence?

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