Bacterial associations reveal spatial population dynamics in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

Sammanfattning

The intolerable burden of malaria has for too long plagued humanity and the prospect of eradicating malaria is an optimistic, but reachable, target in the 21st century. However, extensive knowledge is needed about the spatial structure of mosquito populations in order to develop effective interventions against malaria transmission. We hypothesized that the microbiota associated with a mosquito reflects acquisition of bacteria in different environments. Here, we show that the different environments gave each mosquito a specific bacterial profile, and thus provided information on the spatial dynamics of the mosquito population as a whole. By analyzing the whole-body bacterial flora of An. gambiae mosquitoes from Burkina Faso by 16 S amplicon sequencing, we found that the mosquitoes formed clear local populations within a meta-population network. We believe that using microbiotas as proxies for population structures will greatly aid improving the performance of vector interventions around the world.

Publicerad i

Scientific Reports
2016, volym: 6, artikelnummer: 22806

SLU författare

• Nilsson, Louise

  • Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Brunius, Carl

  • Institutionen för molekylära vetenskaper, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Hopkins, Richard

  • Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • University of Greenwich

• Terenius, Olle

  • Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG3 God hälsa och välbefinnande

UKÄ forskningsämne

Ekologi
Bioinformatik och systembiologi
Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22806

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/71902