Field Studies on the Gonotrophic Cycle of Aedes Aegypti in Bangkok, Thailand

Pant, C. P.; Yasuno, Masayuki

doi:10.1093/jmedent/10.2.219

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“…Oviposition trials indicated that all generations laid eggs in the laboratory showing a large peak in the afternoon with no correlation with blood feeding time, and the observations were consistent with the natural oviposition behavior of this mosquito species [37], [38], [39], [40]. Gonotrophic activity and fecundity of FWMs and d0 FWMs were compared with the highly domesticated d5 FWMs to evaluate the level of domesticity.…”

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Changing Domesticity of Aedes aegypti in Northern Peninsular Malaysia: Reproductive Consequences and Potential Epidemiological Implications

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BackgroundThe domestic dengue vector Aedes aegypti mosquitoes breed in indoor containers. However, in northern peninsular Malaysia, they show equal preference for breeding in both indoor and outdoor habitats. To evaluate the epidemiological implications of this peridomestic adaptation, we examined whether Ae. aegypti exhibits decreased survival, gonotrophic activity, and fecundity due to lack of host availability and the changing breeding behavior.Methodology/Principal FindingsThis yearlong field surveillance identified Ae. aegypti breeding in outdoor containers on an enormous scale. Through a sequence of experiments incorporating outdoors and indoors adapting as well as adapted populations, we observed that indoors provided better environment for the survival of Ae. aegypti and the observed death patterns could be explained on the basis of a difference in body size. The duration of gonotrophic period was much shorter in large-bodied females. Fecundity tended to be greater in indoor acclimated females. We also found increased tendency to multiple feeding in outdoors adapted females, which were smaller in size compared to their outdoors breeding counterparts.Conclusion/SignificanceThe data presented here suggest that acclimatization of Ae. aegypti to the outdoor environment may not decrease its lifespan or gonotrophic activity but rather increase breeding opportunities (increased number of discarded containers outdoors), the rate of larval development, but small body sizes at emergence. Size is likely to be correlated with disease transmission. In general, small size in Aedes females will favor increased blood-feeding frequency resulting in higher population sizes and disease occurrence.

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Changing Domesticity of Aedes aegypti in Northern Peninsular Malaysia: Reproductive Consequences and Potential Epidemiological Implications

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“…albopictus. Studies had shown that its rate of development and survival increases at temperatures lower than 30°C (Pant &Yasuro 1973;Baba & Talle 2011;Alsheri 2013). Reyes-Villanueva et al (2013) suggested that, unlike Ae.…”

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Twenty-Three Years after the First Record ofAedes albopictusin Nigeria: Its Current Distribution and Potential Epidemiological Implications

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“…The peaks of capturing roughly coincided with the average length of a gonotrophic cycle of Ae. aegypti females, i.e., around 3-4 days 34 . No field collection was performed on day 5 after release due to intense rainfall in Olaria.…”

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Calculating the survival rate and estimated population density of gravid Aedes aegypti (Diptera, Culicidae) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Population size and daily survival rates of disease vectors are important determinants of vectorial capacity. A mark-release-recapture experiment was conducted in a dengue endemic urban neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to estimate population size, survival rate and vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti females using back-pack aspirators and gravid sticky traps (MosquiTRAP). Estimations of the gravid female population size were different when using data gathered from just the MosquiTRAP (3,505 individuals) or aspirator (1,470). However Ae. aegypti survival rates and longevity were similar irrespective of the method of capture. Up to 26.3% of released females would be able to survive for more than 10 days, the length of time of the extrinsic incubation period. Vectorial capacity value ranged between 0.01567 and 0.4215 and the basic reproductive number (R0) was estimated to be between 0.0695 and 1.88.

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Field Studies on the Gonotrophic Cycle of Aedes Aegypti in Bangkok, Thailand

Cited by 90 publications

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Changing Domesticity of Aedes aegypti in Northern Peninsular Malaysia: Reproductive Consequences and Potential Epidemiological Implications

Changing Domesticity of Aedes aegypti in Northern Peninsular Malaysia: Reproductive Consequences and Potential Epidemiological Implications

Twenty-Three Years after the First Record ofAedes albopictusin Nigeria: Its Current Distribution and Potential Epidemiological Implications

Calculating the survival rate and estimated population density of gravid Aedes aegypti (Diptera, Culicidae) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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