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How does the dengue vector mosquito Aedes albopictus respond to global warming?

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, March 2017
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Title
How does the dengue vector mosquito Aedes albopictus respond to global warming?
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13071-017-2071-2
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Pengfei Jia, Xiang Chen, Jin Chen, Liang Lu, Qiyong Liu, Xiaoyue Tan

Abstract

Global warming has a marked influence on the life cycle of epidemic vectors as well as their interactions with human beings. The Aedes albopictus mosquito as the vector of dengue fever surged exponentially in the last decade, raising ecological and epistemological concerns of how climate change altered its growth rate and population dynamics. As the global warming pattern is considerably uneven across four seasons, with a confirmed stronger effect in winter, an emerging need arises as to exploring how the seasonal warming effects influence the annual development of Ae. albopictus. The model consolidates a 35-year climate dataset and designs fifteen warming patterns that increase the temperature of selected seasons. Based on a recently developed mechanistic population model of Ae. albopictus, the model simulates the thermal reaction of blood-fed adults by systematically increasing the temperature from 0.5 to 5 °C at an interval of 0.5 °C in each warming pattern. The results show the warming effects are different across seasons. The warming effects in spring and winter facilitate the development of the species by shortening the diapause period. The warming effect in summer is primarily negative by inhibiting mosquito development. The warming effect in autumn is considerably mixed. However, these warming effects cannot carry over to the following year, possibly due to the fact that under the extreme weather in winter the mosquito fully ceases from development and survives in terms of diapause eggs. As the historical pattern of global warming manifests seasonal fluctuations, this study provides corroborating and previously ignored evidence of how such seasonality affects the mosquito development. Understanding this short-term temperature-driven mechanism as one chain of the transmission events is critical to refining the thermal reaction norms of the epidemic vector under global warming as well as developing effective mosquito prevention and control strategies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 126 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 17%
Student > Bachelor 20 16%
Student > Master 17 13%
Other 11 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 9%
Other 25 20%
Unknown 22 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 26%
Environmental Science 16 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 5%
Other 24 19%
Unknown 26 20%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 May 2017.
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#14,532,084
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#2,608
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