NIH R01 · 2025
Assessing desiccation tolerance's impact on Aedes aegypti midgut infection
Understanding how adaptation of mosquitoes to persist at low humidity affects their potential to be successful vectors of human pathogens can lead to novel ways to help prevent or slow the spread of vector-borne diseases. Environmental variation can create novel habitats, such as those with low humidity, for mosquitoes to thrive in. The ability to persist in habitats with low humidity results in mosquitoes with increased desiccation tolerance and can result in new molecular pathways governing interactions with human pathogens. Our understanding of the environmental and genetic factors that contribute to virus emergence and transmission is limited. In populations outside the U.S., success of…
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