Aedes mosquito-transmitted diseases, such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya, are
becoming major global health emergencies while old threats, such as yellow fever, are re …

Engineered gene drives—the process of stimulating the biased inheritance of specific genes—
have the potential to enable the spread of desirable genes throughout wild populations or to …

The radiation-based sterile insect technique (SIT) has successfully suppressed field
populations of several insect pest species, but its effect on mosquito vector control has been …

Dengue has enormous health impacts globally. A novel approach to decrease dengue
incidence involves the introduction of Wolbachia endosymbionts that block dengue virus …

Human pathogens that are transmitted by insects are a global problem, particularly those
vectored by mosquitoes; for example, malaria parasites transmitted by Anopheles species …

One of the most dynamic events in public health is being mediated by the global spread of
the invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus. Its rapid expansion and vectorial capacity for …

Wolbachia are the most abundant bacterial endosymbionts among arthropods. Although
maternally inherited, they do not conform to the widespread view that vertical transmission …

Acquisition and transmission by an insect vector is central to the infection cycle of the
majority of plant pathogenic viruses. Plant viruses can interact with their insect host in a …

Vector-borne disease is one of the greatest contributors to human mortality and morbidity
throughout the tropics. Mosquito-transmitted diseases such as malaria, dengue, yellow fever …

Mosquito species, members of the genera Aedes, Anopheles and Culex, are the major
vectors of human pathogens including protozoa (Plasmodium sp.), filariae and of a variety of …