Biodiversity is a cornerstone of human health and well-being. However, while evidence of
the contributions of nature to human health is rapidly building, research into how biodiversity …

Mosquitoes use plant sugars and vertebrate blood as nutritional resources. When searching
for blood hosts, some mosquitoes express preferential behavior for selected species. Here …

Mosquitoes are important vectors of disease and require sources of carbohydrates for
reproduction and survival. Unlike host-related behaviors of mosquitoes, comparatively less …

Over the past three decades, a range of mosquito-borne viruses that threaten public and
veterinary health have emerged or re-emerged in Europe. Mosquito surveillance activities …

Blood feeding is a fundamental mosquito behavior with consequences for pathogen
transmission and control. Feeding behavior can be studied through two lenses–patterns and …

Abstract The introduction of West Nile virus (WNV) to North America in 1999 and its
subsequent rapid spread across the Americas demonstrated the potential impact of arboviral …

Background Mosquitoes in the genus Culex are primary vectors in the US for West Nile virus
(WNV) and other arboviruses. Climatic drivers such as temperature have differential effects …

Despite the critical role that contact between hosts and vectors, through vector bites, plays in
driving vector-borne disease (VBD) transmission, transmission risk is primarily studied …

Modern infectious disease epidemiology has a strong history of using mathematics both for
prediction and to gain a deeper understanding. However the study of infectious diseases is …

Background Understanding wildlife disease ecology is becoming an urgent need due to the
continuous emergence and spread of several wildlife zoonotic diseases. West Nile Virus …