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Larval application of sodium channel homologous dsRNA restores pyrethroid insecticide susceptibility in a resistant adult mosquito population

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, July 2016
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Title
Larval application of sodium channel homologous dsRNA restores pyrethroid insecticide susceptibility in a resistant adult mosquito population
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Parasites & Vectors, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13071-016-1634-y
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Ana Caroline Dalla Bona, Rodrigo Faitta Chitolina, Marise Lopes Fermino, Lisiane de Castro Poncio, Avital Weiss, José Bento Pereira Lima, Nitzan Paldi, Emerson Soares Bernardes, Jonathan Henen, Eyal Maori

Abstract

Mosquitoes host and pass on to humans a variety of disease-causing pathogens such as infectious viruses and other parasitic microorganisms. The emergence and spread of insecticide resistance is threatening the effectiveness of current control measures for common mosquito vector borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue and Zika. Therefore, the emerging resistance to the widely used pyrethroid insecticides is an alarming problem for public health. Herein we demonstrated the use of RNA interference (RNAi) to increase susceptibility of adult mosquitoes to a widely used pyrethroid insecticide. Experiments were performed on a field-collected pyrethroid resistant strain of Ae. aegypti (Rio de Janeiro; RJ). Larvae from the resistant Ae. aegypti population were soaked with double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) that correspond either to voltage-gate sodium channel (VGSC), P-glycoprotein, or P450 detoxification genes and reared to adulthood. Adult mortality rates in the presence of various Deltamethrin pyrethroid concentrations were used to assess mosquito insecticide susceptibility. We characterized the RJ Ae. aegypti strain with regard to its level of resistance to a pyrethroid insecticide and found that it was approximately 6 times more resistant to Deltamethrin compared to the laboratory Rockefeller strain. The RJ strain displayed a higher frequency of Val1016Ile and Phe1534Cys substitutions of the VGSC gene. The resistant strain also displayed a higher basal expression level of VGSC compared to the Rockefeller strain. When dsRNA-treated mosquitoes were subjected to a standard pyrethroid contact bioassay, only dsRNA targeting VGSC increased the adult mortality of the pyrethroid resistant strain. The dsRNA treatment proved effective in increasing adult mosquito susceptibility over a range of pyrethroid concentrations and these results were associated with dsRNA-specific small interfering RNAs in treated adults, and the corresponding specific down regulation of VGSC gene expression level. Finally, we demonstrated that the efficiency of our approach was further improved by 'tiling' along the VGSC gene in order to identify the most potent dsRNA sequences. These results demonstrate that dsRNA applied to mosquito larvae retains its biological activity into adulthood. Thus, the RNAi system reported here could be a useful approach to control the widespread insecticide resistance in mosquitoes and other insect vectors of human diseases.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ghana 1 <1%
Unknown 101 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 16 16%
Researcher 15 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 14%
Student > Master 11 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 26 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 18 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 10%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Environmental Science 4 4%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 30 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 05 December 2016.
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#6,979,459
of 22,880,691 outputs
Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#1,622
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#115,922
of 355,133 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#47
of 149 outputs
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