How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming?

LI Couper, JE Farner, JM Caldwell, ML Childs… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The potential for adaptive evolution to enable species persistence under a changing climate
is one of the most important questions for understanding impacts of future climate change …

Global change and emerging infectious diseases

N Nova, TS Athni, ML Childs, L Mandle… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Our world is undergoing rapid planetary changes driven by human activities, often mediated
by economic incentives and resource management, affecting all life on Earth. Concurrently …

Transmission of West Nile and five other temperate mosquito-borne viruses peaks at temperatures between 23 C and 26 C

MS Shocket, AB Verwillow, MG Numazu, H Slamani… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The temperature-dependence of many important mosquito-borne diseases has never been
quantified. These relationships are critical for understanding current distributions and …

Climate predicts geographic and temporal variation in mosquito-borne disease dynamics on two continents

JM Caldwell, AD LaBeaud, EF Lambin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate drives population dynamics through multiple mechanisms, which can lead to
seemingly context-dependent effects of climate on natural populations. For climate-sensitive …

Temperature explains broad patterns of Ross River virus transmission

MS Shocket, SJ Ryan, EA Mordecai - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Thermal biology predicts that vector-borne disease transmission peaks at intermediate
temperatures and declines at high and low temperatures. However, thermal optima and …

Mapping the Urban Environments of Aedes aegypti Using Drone Technology

KM Valdez-Delgado, O Garcia-Salazar… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Aedes aegypti is widely distributed worldwide and is the main vector mosquito for dengue,
one of the most important infectious diseases in middle-and low-income countries. The …

The influence of vector‐borne disease on human history: socio‐ecological mechanisms

TS Athni, MS Shocket, LI Couper, N Nova… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Vector‐borne diseases (VBDs) are embedded within complex socio‐ecological systems.
While research has traditionally focused on the direct effects of VBDs on human morbidity …

Interaction of Human Behavioral Factors Shapes the Transmission of Arboviruses by Aedes and Culex Mosquitoes

A Renard, F Pérez Lombardini, M Pacheco Zapata… - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
Arboviruses, ie, viruses transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods, trigger significant global
epidemics. Over the past 20 years, the frequency of the (re-) emergence of these pathogens …

Defining the roles of local precipitation and anthropogenic water sources in driving the abundance of Aedes aegypti, an emerging disease vector in urban, arid …

EA Newman, X Feng, JD Onland, KR Walker… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding drivers of disease vectors' population dynamics is a pressing challenge. For
short-lived organisms like mosquitoes, landscape-scale models must account for their highly …

Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) diversity along a rainy season and edge effects in a riparian forest in Southeastern Brazil

LNP Costa, S Novais, Y Oki, GW Fernandes… - Austral …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge on the distribution of mosquito communities over time and across
human‐modified landscapes is important in determining the risk for vector‐borne disease …