Light Pollution Disrupts Seasonal Differences in the Daily Activity and Metabolic Profiles of the Northern House Mosquito, Culex pipiens

M Wolkoff, L Fyie, M Meuti - Insects, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Northern house mosquito transmits West Nile virus and survives the
winter by entering a state of dormancy called diapause. Light pollution has been shown to …

Identification of CYCLE targets that contribute diverse features of circadian rhythms in the mosquito Culex pipiens

P Dhungana, X Wei, M Meuti, C Sim - Comparative Biochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Culex pipiens demonstrates robust circadian rhythms in adult eclosion, flight activity, mating,
and development. These rhythmic patterns are believed to be controlled by the endogenous …

Hello darkness, my old friend: a tutorial of Nanda-Hamner protocols

NM Teets, ME Meuti - Journal of Biological Rhythms, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Plants and animals use circadian and photoperiodic timekeeping mechanisms to respond to
daily and seasonal changes in light: dark and appropriately coordinate their development …

The importance of fat accumulation and reserves for insect overwintering

T Enriquez, B Visser - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Most insects accumulate fat in preparation for winter.•Lipid accumulation and fat
stores are essential for insect overwintering.•Diapause and acclimation generally lead to …

Potential for urban warming to postpone overwintering dormancy of temperate mosquitoes

LR Fyie, HR Tronetti, MM Gardiner, ME Meuti - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas due to the Urban Heat Island (UHI)
effect. These increases in temperature advance plant and animal phenology, development …

Molecular mechanism of the circadian clock

D Doležel - Insect chronobiology, 2023 - Springer
Nearly all organisms possess a circadian clock, a genetically determined device that
generates endogenous oscillations with a period of approximately 24 h. From a molecular …

Light pollution disrupts circadian clock gene expression in two mosquito vectors during their overwintering dormancy

LR Fyie, KM Westby, ME Meuti - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is an increasingly important form of environmental disturbance
as it alters Light: Dark cycles that regulate daily and seasonal changes in physiology and …

Light pollution disrupts seasonal reproductive phenotypes and reduces lifespan in the West Nile vector, Culex pipiens

MA Fiorta, LR Fyie, ME Meuti - Journal of Insect Physiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Females of the Northern House mosquito, Culex pipiens, are important disease
vectors as they transmit pathogens including West Nile virus. These females survive the …

Revealing the profound influence of diapause on gene expression: Insights from the annual transcriptome of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus

L Payton, KS Last, J Grigor, C Noirot, L Hüppe… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Annual rhythms are observed in living organisms with numerous ecological implications. In
the zooplanktonic copepod Calanus finmarchicus, such rhythms are crucial regarding its …

Suppression of the H3K27me3 demethylase disrupts diapause formation in mosquito Culex pipiens

X Wei, P Dhungana, K Callender, B Zewde… - Insect Biochemistry and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Diapause (D) is a hormonally controlled alternative developmental pathway that allows
mosquitoes to survive harsh winter conditions. Key characteristics of mosquito diapause …