Impact of human activities on disease-spreading mosquitoes in urban areas

P Duval, P Antonelli, C Aschan-Leygonie… - Journal of Urban …, 2023 - Springer
Urbanization is one of the leading global trends of the twenty-first century that has a
significant impact on health. Among health challenges caused by urbanization, the …

Spilanthol-rich essential oil obtained by microwave-assisted extraction from Acmella oleracea (L.) RK Jansen and its nanoemulsion: Insecticidal, cytotoxic and anti …

E Spinozzi, R Pavela, G Bonacucina… - Industrial Crops and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Acmella oleracea (L.) RK Jansen, also named jambù, is an edible and medicinal
plant native to Brazil but extensively cultivated all over the world due to its diverse …

Anthropogenic disturbance favours generalist over specialist parasites in bird communities: Implications for risk of disease emergence

G Dharmarajan, P Gupta, CK Vishnudas… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Niche theory predicts specialists which will be more sensitive to environmental perturbation
compared to generalists, a hypothesis receiving broad support in free‐living species. Based …

Change in the faunal composition of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) along a heterogeneous landscape gradient in the Brazilian Amazon

JF Almeida, HCM Belchior, FAJC Batista… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
This study aimed to evaluate the influence of different anthropic landscape profiles on the
diversity and distribution of mosquito species in a rural settlement of the Brazilian Amazon …

Changes in container-breeding mosquito diversity and abundance along an urbanization gradient are associated with dominance of arboviral vectors

MK Zettle, E Anderson… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Environmental conditions associated with urbanization are likely to influence the
composition and abundance of mosquito (Diptera, Culicidae) assemblages through effects …

Vector mosquito distribution and richness are predicted by socio-economic, and ecological variables

S Rodríguez-González, M Izquierdo-Suzán… - Acta Tropica, 2024 - Elsevier
Mosquitoes of vectorial importance represent a ubiquitous and constant threat of potentially
devastating arboviral outbreaks. Our ability to predict such outcomes is still restricted. To …

Nuevos registros de distribución para Uranotaenia sapphirina (Osten Sacken, 1868)(Diptera: Culicidae) en Quintana Roo, México

KL Canto-Mis, RJ Chan-Chable… - Revista chilena de …, 2021 - SciELO Chile
Se realizaron colectas de larvas de culícidos en tres localidades del estado de Quintana
Roo, México (Leona Vicario, Cacao y Ramonal) durante los meses de abril y mayo de 2021 …

Landscape anthropization affects mosquito diversity in a deciduous forest in southeastern Mexico

MJ Barrientos-Roldán… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) are considered the group of insects that most
impacts human health. Land use change, conversion of conserved sites into agricultural …

[HTML][HTML] Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) diversity and arbovirus detection across an urban and agricultural landscape

M Izquierdo-Suzán, PB Zavala-Guerrero, M Hugo… - Acta Tropica, 2024 - Elsevier
Fragmented landscapes in Mexico, characterized by a mix of agricultural, urban, and native
vegetation cover, presents unique ecological characteristics that shape the mosquito …

Blow flies, synanthropy and sex ratio: are the deviations in the sex proportion linked to human transformation of landscapes?

MI Dufek, M Battán-Horenstein, PR Mulieri - Acta Tropica, 2021 - Elsevier
In most species, several factors like time of emergence, age at maturation, reproductive life
span, survival of males and females, mating behavior, differential resource use, and …