Mosquito Gonotrophic Cycle and Multiple Feeding Potential: Contrasts Between Anopheles and Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae)

Klowden, Marc J.; Briegel, Hans J.

doi:10.1093/jmedent/31.4.618

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“…Haematophagous insects are not an exception, and such dependence on the physiological state has been analysed in detail in mosquitoes, where feeding and reproduction alternate, giving place to a gonotrophic cycle (Klowden 1981, Klowden and Briegel 1994. (and C 6 n-carboxylic acid) 1 Guerenstein and Guerin 2001, Diehl et al 2003, Barrozo 2003 1 Guerin 1997, Diehl et al 2003 C 4-5 Bernard 1974 1 No behavioural response known (only neurophysiological evidence).…”

Section: The Modulation Of Olfactory Responsesmentioning

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Olfaction in vector-host interactions

Takken¹,

Knols²

2010

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Section: The Modulation Of Olfactory Responsesmentioning

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Olfaction in vector-host interactions

Takken¹,

Knols²

2010

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“…In female mosquitoes, feeding triggers endocrine processes controlling the ovarian function (Klowden, 1997). After the initiation of a gonotrophic cycle by a blood meal, host seeking is inhibited until egg maturation or oviposition (Klowden and Briegel, 1994). The inhibition is the result of the interplay between a nervous and a humoral mechanism.…”

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“…This is the case, for example, of mosquito females, which are not sensitive to host cues during egg production and which recover their ability to search for food once eggs are mature or they have already been laid. This alternation between feeding and reproduction expresses itself as a gonotrophic cycle, which has been well characterised in different mosquito species (Klowden, 1981;Klowden, 1990;Klowden and Briegel, 1994;Klowden, 1995;Takken et al, 2001). Actually, if a first meal is sufficient to produce a batch of eggs, a supplementary meal would not necessarily increase fecundity (Lea et al, 1978;Edman and Scott, 1987).…”

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Behavioural and physiological state dependency of host seeking in the blood-sucking insectRhodnius prolixus

Bodin

Vinauger

Lazzari

2009

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARYVertebrate blood is essential for the growth and the reproduction of haematophagous insects. Provided that hosts play the double role of food sources and predators, feeding on their blood exposes these insects to a high predation risk. Therefore, it is expected that host seeking occurs only when insects need to feed. In the present study, we analyse how the feeding status affects the response to host-associated cues in the blood-sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus. We show that the responsiveness to hostassociated cues, such as CO 2 and heat, and that the motivation to feed depend on the time elapsed since a blood meal. Depending on the time elapsed after feeding, the same concentration of CO 2 may attract or repel the insects. As far as we know, this is the first time that a host signal has been shown to be repellent for a haematophagous insect. The response to heat is also modulated but no repellence was observed. When blood was replaced by saline solution as food, a significant reduction of the response to both signals was evinced but repellence was not observed. The injection of haemolymph from fed insects into starved insects inhibited the response of the receiver insects to both signals but this was not observed after the injection of saline solution or of haemolymph from non-fed insects. This is the first time that the modulation of feeding behaviour by the feeding status has been analysed in a hemimetabolous blood-sucking insect, fully excluding any effect of other processes, such as reproduction.

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“…[1][2][3][4][5] Indeed, much information exists which clearly demonstrates that the duration of the gonotrophic cycle is dependent on temperature, 1 humidity 5 size of the females, 3 copulation status, 6 and quality and quantity of blood meal taken. 7.8 Studies show that females reared in less than optimal conditions are smaller in size and require at least two blood meals to mature a batch of eggs.…”

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Studies on the post-oviposition blood-feeding behaviour ofAedes aegypti(L.) (Diptera: Culicidae) in the laboratory

Chadee

2012

Pathogens and Global Health

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The blood-feeding behaviour of the Trinidad strain of Aedes aegypti was studied, under laboratory conditions, using one female per cage and monitoring blood feeding immediately, 12, and 24 hours after oviposition. To get large numbers of females that had newly completed their first gonotrophic cycle, the diel oviposition periodicity was conducted using single females per cage and monitoring at 2-hour intervals. The diel oviposition periodicity showed a small morning peak (8%) during the first 2 hours of the photophase after which oviposition declined: during the second half of the photophase, oviposition increased reaching a peak comprising 56% of eggs (G559.9, P.0.01) between 16:00 and 18:00 hours. At post-oviposition hour 0, only five (10%) of the females accepted a blood meal but at post-oviposition hour 12, significantly more (G546.98, P.0.02) females, 35 (70%) accepted a blood meal. This pattern was consistently observed when females were offered blood meals at 12 and 24 hours after completing their first gonotrophic cycle. Multiple feeding was observed among the blood-feeding females and the results of this study are discussed in the context of disease transmission patterns and physiological mechanisms which control their blood-feeding behaviours.

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Mosquito Gonotrophic Cycle and Multiple Feeding Potential: Contrasts Between Anopheles and Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae)

Cited by 102 publications

References 18 publications

Olfaction in vector-host interactions

Olfaction in vector-host interactions

Behavioural and physiological state dependency of host seeking in the blood-sucking insectRhodnius prolixus

Studies on the post-oviposition blood-feeding behaviour ofAedes aegypti(L.) (Diptera: Culicidae) in the laboratory

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