Destacados
- ¡Abierta convocatoria para proyectos de investigación en la ICTS- Doñana!
- La Fundación Jaime González-Gordon ofrece cuatro becas para el desarrollo de Trabajos de Fin de Máster sobre Doñana
- Cinco contratos para desarrollar la tesis doctoral en la Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC
- Actividades de la Estación Biológica de Doñana en la Noche Europea de los Investigadores
- La ICTS-RBD se prepara para la 30ª Campaña de Anillamiento de Paseriformes Migratorios en Doñana
Noticias
Plasmodium transmission risk differs between mosquito species and parasite lineages
Factors such as the particular combination of parasite-mosquito species, their co-evolutionary history, and the host's parasite load greatly affect parasite transmission. However, the importance of these factors in the epidemiology of mosquito-borne parasites, such as avian malaria parasites, is largely unknown. Here, the competence of two mosquito species (Culex pipiens and Aedes (Ochlerotatus) caspius), for the transmission of four avian Plasmodium lineages naturally infecting wild house sparrows was assessed as well as the effects of parasite identity and parasite load on Plasmodium transmission risk through its effects on the transmission rate and mosquito survival. Cx. pipiens was able to transmit the four Plasmodium lineages, while Ae. caspius was unable to transmit any of them. However, Cx. pipiens mosquitoes fed on birds infected by P. relictum showed a lower survival and transmission rate than those fed on birds infected by parasites related to P. cathemerium. Non-significant associations were found with the host-parasite load. These results confirm the existence of inter- and intra-specific differences in the ability of Plasmodium lineages to develop in mosquito species and their effects on the survival of mosquitoes that result in important differences in the transmission risk of the different avian malaria parasite lineages studied. informacion[at]ebd.csic.es: Gutiérrez-López et al (2020) Plasmodium transmission differs between mosquito species and parasite lineages lineages. Parasitology. DOI 10.1017/S0031182020000062
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/parasitology/article/plasmodium-transmission-differs-between-mosquito-species-and-parasite-lineages/7A71241F6C95735ADC486D6098AA53E9- Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Química
- Laboratorio de Ecología Acuática
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