Stable Introduction of a Life-Shortening Wolbachia Infection into the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

By Conor J. McMeniman, R. Lane, Bodil N. Cass, Amy C. C. Fong, Manpreet Sidhu, Yufeng Wang, S. O'Neill. Science, 2009

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Subfields: Insect Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• A Wolbachia symbiont in Aedes aegypti limits infection with dengue, Chikungunya, and Plasmodium. (2009, methodology): “The finding that the wMelPop-CLA Wolbachia infection reduces the ability of two distantly related arboviruses and a malaria parasite from establishing productive infections in the mosquito shows that the pathogen interference effect of the wMelPopCLA strain is general and fundamental.”
• The gut microbiota of insects - diversity in structure and function. (2013, background): “For insect vectors of disease, symbiotic microorganisms can influence vectoring efficiency (McMeniman et al., 2009; Ricci et al., 2012) or developmental time (Chouaia et al., 2012) and thus provide targets for potential disease control.”
• Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research with Public Values (2016, background): “also can be used to shorten the life-span of Aedes aegypti (McMeniman et al., 2009).”
• Arthropod symbioses: a neglected parameter in pest- and disease-control programmes (2011, background): “In a pioneering work,McMeniman et al. (2009) injected a life-shorteningWolbachia strain into the Dengue virus vector, Aedes aegypti, and directly reduced its vectorial capacity by influencing its survival and biting ability.”
• The invasive mosquito species Aedes albopictus: current knowledge and future perspectives (2013, background): “albopictus, but reduce DENV infection of the salivary glands [58].”
• Ecological genetics of invasive alien species (2011, background): “Endosymbionts can also negatively influence other aspects of their host’s biology, including life-span (McMeniman et al. 2009) and dispersal (Goodacre et al. 2009).”