Insect pests cause significant agricultural and economic losses to crops worldwide due to
their destructive activities. Pesticides are designed to be poisonous and are intentionally …

In the last decades, major research efforts have been done to investigate the insecticidal
activity of plant-based products against mosquitoes. This is a modern and timely challenge …

The holobiont concept was first developed for coral ecosystems but has been extended to
multiple organisms, including plants and other animals. Studies on insect-associated …

Abstract Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) have been shown to host diverse bacterial
communities that vary depending on the sex of the mosquito, the developmental stage, and …

Mosquito-transmitted diseases account for about 500 000 deaths every year. Blocking these
pathogens in the mosquito vector before they are transmitted to humans is an effective …

Highlights•The midgut of mosquito disease vectors contains a diverse microbial flora.•The
microbiota can modulate the mosquito immune response and influence vector competence …

Background Mosquito larvae feed on organic detritus from the environment, particularly
microorganisms comprising bacteria, protozoa, and algae as well as crustaceans, plant …

West Nile virus (WNV; Flavivirus; Flaviviridae) is the cause of the most widespread arthropod-
borne viral disease in the world and the largest outbreak of neuroinvasive disease ever …

A growing number of recent reports have implicated Rickettsia felis as a human pathogen,
paralleling the increasing detection of R. felis in arthropod hosts across the globe, primarily …

Background Wolbachia is a group of intracellular maternally inherited bacteria infecting a
high number of arthropod species. Their presence in different mosquito species has been …