"Bird biting" mosquitoes and human disease: a review of the role of Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes in epidemiology.
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This article is published in Infection, Genetics and Evolution.The article was published on 2011-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 482 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Culex quinquefasciatus & St louis encephalitis.read more
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Drivers, dynamics, and control of emerging vector-borne zoonotic diseases
TL;DR: Challenges inherent in the control of vector-borne zoonotic diseases and some emerging non-traditional strategies that could be effective in the long term are described.
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Host preferences of blood-feeding mosquitoes
Willem Takken,Niels O. Verhulst +1 more
TL;DR: Those species that express strong and inherent host-selection behavior belong to the most important vectors of infectious diseases, which suggests that this behavioral trait may have evolved in parallel with parasite-host evolution.
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The Effect of Temperature on Life History Traits of Culex Mosquitoes
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of temperature on the life history traits of Culex mosquitoes has been investigated, showing that temperature significantly affects all of these traits, yet also that the extent of this effect is at times incongruent among temperatures, as well as being population and species-specific.
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Effects of landscape anthropization on mosquito community composition and abundance
Martina Ferraguti,Josué Martínez de la Puente,David Roiz,David Roiz,Santiago Ruiz,Ramón C. Soriguer,Jordi Figuerola +6 more
TL;DR: Mosquito abundance and species richness were greater in natural and rural areas than in urban areas, and environmental factors including land use, vegetation and hydrological characteristics were related to mosquito abundance and community composition.
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Comparative genomics shows that viral integrations are abundant and express piRNAs in the arboviral vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
Umberto Palatini,Pascal Miesen,Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazú,Lino Ometto,Ettore Rizzo,Zhijian Tu,Ronald P. van Rij,Mariangela Bonizzoni +7 more
TL;DR: Differences in the number of viral integrations in the genomes of mosquito species from the same geographic area support the conclusion that integrations of viral sequences is not dependent on viral exposure, but that lineage-specific interactions exist, and suggest a role for viral Integrations in antiviral defense in these two mosquito species.
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West Nile Virus Epidemics in North America Are Driven by Shifts in Mosquito Feeding Behavior
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