The invasive mosquito species Aedes albopictus: current knowledge and future perspectives

M Bonizzoni, G Gasperi, X Chen, AA James - Trends in parasitology, 2013 - cell.com
One of the most dynamic events in public health is being mediated by the global spread of
the invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus. Its rapid expansion and vectorial capacity for …

Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus

MUG Kraemer, RC Reiner Jr, OJ Brady… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The global population at risk from mosquito-borne diseases—including dengue, yellow
fever, chikungunya and Zika—is expanding in concert with changes in the distribution of two …

Photoperiodic Diapause and the Establishment of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in North America

PA Armbruster - Journal of medical entomology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The invasion and range expansion of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) in North America represents
an outstanding opportunity to study processes of invasion, range expansion, and climatic …

Rapid adaptive evolution of photoperiodic response during invasion and range expansion across a climatic gradient

J Urbanski, M Mogi, D O'Donnell… - The American …, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
Understanding the mechanisms of adaptation to spatiotemporal environmental variation is a
fundamental goal of evolutionary biology. This issue also has important implications for …

Higher mosquito production in low-income neighborhoods of Baltimore and Washington, DC: understanding ecological drivers and mosquito-borne disease risk in …

SL LaDeau, PT Leisnham, D Biehler… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Mosquito-vectored pathogens are responsible for devastating human diseases and are (re)
emerging in many urban environments. Effective mosquito control in urban landscapes …

Evolution of resistance to satyrization through reproductive character displacement in populations of invasive dengue vectors

IE Bargielowski, LP Lounibos… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Recently, the highly invasive Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, rapidly displaced
resident populations of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti in the southeastern United …

Impacts of Climate, Land Use, and Biological Invasion on the Ecology of Immature Aedes Mosquitoes: Implications for La Crosse Emergence

PT Leisnham, SA Juliano - Ecohealth, 2012 - Springer
Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) cause many diseases worldwide and their
transmission is likely to change with land use and climate changes. La Crosse virus (LACV) …

European butterfly populations vary in sensitivity to weather across their geographical ranges

SC Mills, TH Oliver, RB Bradbury… - Global Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim was to assess the sensitivity of butterfly population dynamics to variation in
weather conditions across their geographical ranges, relative to sensitivity to density …

Rapid adaptive evolution of the diapause program during range expansion of an invasive mosquito

ZA Batz, AJ Clemento, J Fritzenwanker, TJ Ring… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In temperate climates, the recurring seasonal exigencies of winter represent a fundamental
physiological challenge for a wide range of organisms. In response, many temperate insects …

Where vectors collide: the importance of mechanisms sha** the realized niche for modeling ranges of invasive Aedes mosquitoes

LP Lounibos, SA Juliano - Biological Invasions, 2018 - Springer
The vector mosquitoes Aedes aegypti (L.), native to Africa, and Aedes albopictus (Skuse),
native to Asia, are widespread invasives whose spatial distributions frequently overlap …