Mosquito trilogy: microbiota, immunity and pathogens, and their implications for the control of disease transmission

P Gabrieli, S Caccia, I Varotto-Boccazzi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In mosquitoes, the interaction between the gut microbiota, the immune system, and the
pathogens that these insects transmit to humans and animals is regarded as a key …

Prospects and pitfalls: next-generation tools to control mosquito-transmitted disease

EP Caragata, S Dong, Y Dong… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Mosquito-transmitted diseases, including malaria and dengue, are a major threat to human
health around the globe, affecting millions each year. A diverse array of next-generation …

Wolbachia cifB induces cytoplasmic incompatibility in the malaria mosquito vector

KL Adams, DG Abernathy, BC Willett, EK Selland… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Wolbachia, a maternally inherited intracellular bacterial species, can manipulate host insect
reproduction by cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), which results in embryo lethality in crosses …

Stable high-density and maternally inherited Wolbachia infections in Anopheles moucheti and Anopheles demeilloni mosquitoes

T Walker, S Quek, CL Jeffries, J Bandibabone… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Wolbachia, a widespread bacterium that can reduce pathogen transmission in mosquitoes,
has recently been reported to be present in Anopheles (An.) species. In wild populations of …

An elusive endosymbiont: Does Wolbachia occur naturally in Aedes aegypti?

PA Ross, AG Callahan, Q Yang, M Jasper… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia are maternally inherited endosymbiotic bacteria found within many insect
species. Aedes mosquitoes experimentally infected with Wolbachia are being released into …

A microsporidian impairs Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes

JK Herren, L Mbaisi, E Mararo, EE Makhulu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A possible malaria control approach involves the dissemination in mosquitoes of inherited
symbiotic microbes to block Plasmodium transmission. However, in the Anopheles gambiae …

Curious entanglements: interactions between mosquitoes, their microbiota, and arboviruses

EP Caragata, CV Tikhe, G Dimopoulos - Current opinion in virology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•The mosquito microbiota plays a modulatory role in arbovirus transmission.•
Mosquito–microbiota–virus interactions are diverse and poorly characterized.•Elucidating …

Systematic Review of Wolbachia Symbiont Detection in Mosquitoes: An Entangled Topic about Methodological Power and True Symbiosis

LM Inacio da Silva, FZ Dezordi, MHS Paiva, GL Wallau - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wolbachia is an endosymbiotic bacterium that naturally infects several arthropods and
nematode species. Wolbachia gained particular attention due to its impact on their host …

Wolbachia prevalence, diversity, and ability to induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes

M Sicard, M Bonneau, M Weill - Current opinion in insect science, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•All Aedes albopictus and Culex pipiens are infected with Wolbachia.•Natural
Wolbachia infections of Anopheles species and of Ae. aegypti have to be …

Microbial interactions in the mosquito gut determine Serratia colonization and blood-feeding propensity

EV Kozlova, S Hegde, CM Roundy, G Golovko… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
How microbe–microbe interactions dictate microbial complexity in the mosquito gut is
unclear. Previously we found that, Serratia, a gut symbiont that alters vector competence and …