scholarly journals An updated catalogue of salivary gland transcripts in the adult female mosquito, Anopheles gambiae

2005 ◽  
Vol 208 (20) ◽  
pp. 3971-3986 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Arca
Keyword(s):  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Anopheles Gambiae ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Female Mosquito ◽  
Mosquito Anopheles Gambiae ◽  
Adult Female Mosquito

scholarly journals An annotated catalogue of salivary gland transcripts in the adult female mosquito, Ædes ægypti*

BMC Genomics ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José MC Ribeiro ◽  
Bruno Arcà ◽  
Fabrizio Lombardo ◽  
Eric Calvo ◽  
Van My Phan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Female Mosquito ◽  
Annotated Catalogue ◽  
Adult Female Mosquito

scholarly journals A synergistic transcriptional regulation of olfactory genes derives complex behavioral responses in the mosquito Anopheles culicifacies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanwee Das De ◽  
Tina Thomas ◽  
Sonia Verma ◽  
Deepak Singla ◽  
Charu Rawal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Female ◽  
Blood Meal ◽  
Olfactory System ◽  
Transcriptional Profiling ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Blood Feeding ◽  
Female Mosquito ◽  
Anopheles Culicifacies ◽  
Host Seeking ◽  
Adult Female Mosquito

AbstractDecoding the molecular basis of host seeking and blood feeding behavioral evolution/adaptation in the adult female mosquito may provide an opportunity to design new molecular strategy to disrupt human-mosquito interactions. However, despite the great progress in the field of mosquito olfaction and chemo-detection, little is known that how the sex-specific specialization of the olfactory system enables adult female mosquitoes to derive and manage complex blood feeding associated behavioral responses. A comprehensive RNAseq analysis of prior and post blood meal olfactory system of An. culicifacies mosquito revealed that a minor but unique change in the nature and regulation of key olfactory genes play a pivotal role in managing diverse behavioral responses. Age dependent transcriptional profiling demonstrated that adult female mosquito’s chemosensory system gradually learned and matured to drive the host-seeking and blood feeding behavior at the age of 5-6 days. A zeitgeber time scale expression analysis of Odorant Binding Proteins (OBPs) unravels unique association with a late evening to midnight peak biting time. Blood meal-induced switching of unique sets of OBP genes and Odorant Receptors (ORs) expression coincides with the change in the innate physiological status of the mosquitoes. Blood meal follows up experiments provide enough evidence that how a synergistic and concurrent action of OBPs-ORs may drive ‘prior and post blood meal’ complex behavioral events. Finally, tissue-specific gene expression analysis and molecular modelling predicted two uncharacterized novel sensory appendages proteins (SAP-1 & SAP2) unique to An. culicifacies mosquito and may play a central role in the host-seeking behavior.SignificanceEvolution and adaptation of blood feeding behavior not only favored the reproductive success of adult female mosquito but also make them an important disease vectors. Immediately after emergence, an environmental exposure may favor the broadly tuned olfactory system of mosquitoes to derive complex behavioral responses. But, how these olfactory derived genetic factors manage female specific ‘pre and post’ blood meal associated complex behavioral responses are not well known. We unraveled synergistic actions of olfactory factors governs an innate to prime learning strategy to facilitate rapid blood meal acquisition and downstream behavioral activities. A species-specific transcriptional profiling and an in-silico analysis predict novel ‘sensory appendages protein’, as a unique target to design disorientation strategy against the mosquito Anopheles culicifacies.

scholarly journals A global assembly of adult female mosquito mark-release-recapture data to inform the control of mosquito-borne pathogens

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A Guerra ◽  
Robert C Reiner ◽  
T Alex Perkins ◽  
Steve W Lindsay ◽  
Janet T Midega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Female ◽  
Female Mosquito ◽  
Mark Release Recapture ◽  
Adult Female Mosquito

An insight into the sialome of the adult female mosquito Aedes albopictus

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Arcà ◽  
Fabrizio Lombardo ◽  
Ivo M.B. Francischetti ◽  
Van My Pham ◽  
Montserrat Mestres-Simon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Albopictus ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Female Mosquito ◽  
Adult Female Mosquito ◽  
Insight Into

Toward a description of the sialome of the adult female mosquito Aedes aegypti

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 1101-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.G. Valenzuela ◽  
V.M. Pham ◽  
M.K. Garfield ◽  
I.M.B. Francischetti ◽  
J.M.C. Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Female Mosquito ◽  
Adult Female Mosquito
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