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Transcriptional response of individual Hawaiian Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes to the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum
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- Ferreira, Francisco C. (författare)
- Smithsonian Conservat Biol Inst, Ctr Conservat Genom, Washington, DC 20002 USA.;Rutgers State Univ, Ctr Vector Biol, Entomol Dept, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA.
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- Videvall, Elin (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Zooekologi,Smithsonian Conservat Biol Inst, Ctr Conservat Genom, Washington, DC 20002 USA.;Brown Univ, Dept Ecol Evolut & Organismal Biol, Providence, RI 02912 USA.;Brown Univ, Inst Brown Environm & Soc, Providence, RI 02912 USA.
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- Seidl, Christa M. (författare)
- Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Ecol & Evolutary Biol, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.
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- Wagner, Nicole E. (författare)
- Rutgers State Univ, Ctr Vector Biol, Entomol Dept, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA.
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- Kilpatrick, A. Marm (författare)
- Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Ecol & Evolutary Biol, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.
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- Fleischer, Robert C. (författare)
- Smithsonian Conservat Biol Inst, Ctr Conservat Genom, Washington, DC 20002 USA.
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- Fonseca, Dina M. (författare)
- Rutgers State Univ, Ctr Vector Biol, Entomol Dept, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA.
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Smithsonian Conservat Biol Inst, Ctr Conservat Genom, Washington, DC 20002 USA;Rutgers State Univ, Ctr Vector Biol, Entomol Dept, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA. Zooekologi (creator_code:org_t)
- 2022-08-29
- 2022
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Malaria Journal. - : Springer Nature. - 1475-2875. ; 21
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Abstract
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- Background: Plasmodium parasites that cause bird malaria occur in all continents except Antarctica and are primarily transmitted by mosquitoes in the genus Culex. Culex quinquefasciatus, the mosquito vector of avian malaria in HawaiModified Letter Turned Commai, became established in the islands in the 1820s. While the deadly effects of malaria on endemic bird species have been documented for many decades, vector-parasite interactions in avian malaria systems are relatively understudied.Methods: To evaluate the gene expression response of mosquitoes exposed to a Plasmodium infection intensity known to occur naturally in HawaiModified Letter Turned Commai, offspring of wild-collected Hawaiian Cx. quinquefasciatus were fed on a domestic canary infected with a fresh isolate of Plasmodium relictum GRW4 from a wild-caught Hawaiian honeycreeper. Control mosquitoes were fed on an uninfected canary. Transcriptomes of five infected and three uninfected individual mosquitoes were sequenced at each of three stages of the parasite life cycle: 24 h post feeding (hpf) during ookinete invasion; 5 days post feeding (dpf) when oocysts are developing; 10 dpf when sporozoites are released and invade the salivary glands.Results: Differential gene expression analyses showed that during ookinete invasion (24 hpf), genes related to oxidoreductase activity and galactose catabolism had lower expression levels in infected mosquitoes compared to controls. Oocyst development (5 dpf) was associated with reduced expression of a gene with a predicted innate immune function. At 10 dpf, infected mosquitoes had reduced expression levels of a serine protease inhibitor, and further studies should assess its role as a Plasmodium agonist in C. quinquefasciatus. Overall, the differential gene expression response of Hawaiian Culex exposed to a Plasmodium infection intensity known to occur naturally in HawaiModified Letter Turned Commai was low, but more pronounced during ookinete invasion.Conclusions: This is the first analysis of the transcriptional responses of vectors to malaria parasites in non-mammalian systems. Interestingly, few similarities were found between the response of Culex infected with a bird Plasmodium and those reported in Anopheles infected with human Plasmodium. The relatively small transcriptional changes observed in mosquito genes related to immune response and nutrient metabolism support conclusions of low fitness costs often documented in experimental challenges of Culex with avian Plasmodium.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Zoologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Zoology (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Cell- och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine -- Cell and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)
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- Differential gene expression
- Transcriptome analysis
- Vector
- Invasive species
- Vector-borne diseases
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