Studies on the mycotic inhabitants ofCulex pipiens collected from fresh water ponds in Egypt

Badran, R. A. M.; Aly, Mohammed Z. Y.

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“…In addition, a considerable proportion of fungi (62.9% genus level and 15.1% species level) isolated from field collected mosquito larvae, including Cx. pipiens were also identified in our dataset (Badran and Aly, 1995;Pereira et al, 2009;Steyn et al, 2016). The observed overlap of ascomycetes and basidiomycetes across larvae of different mosquito species can be explained by the ubiquity and cooccurrence of these taxa in freshwater ecosystems (Manohar and Raghukumar, 2013;Panzer et al, 2015;Lepère et al, 2019;Shelomi, 2019;Tawidian et al, 2021).…”

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Patterns of Fungal Community Assembly Across Two Culex Mosquito Species

2022

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In the aquatic environment, mosquito larvae encounter bacteria and fungi that assemble into bacterial and fungal communities. The composition and impact of mosquito-associated bacterial community has been reported across larvae of various mosquito species. However, knowledge on the composition of mosquito-associated fungal communities and the drivers of their assembly remain largely unclear, particularly across mosquito species. In this study, we used high throughput sequencing of the fungal Internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) metabarcode marker to identify fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) associated with field-collected Culex restuans and Culex pipiens larvae and their breeding water. Our analyses identified diverse fungal communities across larval breeding sites collected on a fine geographic scale. Our data show that the larval breeding site is the major determinant of fungal community assembly in these mosquito species. We also identified distinct fungal communities in guts and carcasses within each species. However, these tissue-specific patterns were less evident in Cx. restuans than in Cx. pipiens larvae. The broad ecological patterns of fungal community assembly in mosquito larvae did not vary between OTU and ASV analyses. Together, this study provides the first insight into the fungal community composition and diversity in field collected Cx. restuans and Cx. pipiens larvae using OTUs and ASVs. While these findings largely recapitulate our previous analyses in Aedes albopictus larvae, we report minor differences in tissue-specific fungal community assembly in Cx. restuans larvae. Our results suggest that while the fungal community assembly in mosquito larvae may be generalized across mosquito species, variation in larval feeding behavior may impact fungal community assembly in the guts of mosquito larvae.

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Patterns of Fungal Community Assembly Across Two Culex Mosquito Species

2022

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“…Mosquito-associated fungal communities (mycobiota) are mainly composed of Ascomycota (73-92% in Aedes and Culex species) and Basidiomycota (8–25% in Aedes and Culex species) including yeasts and filamentous species [ 14 , 17 , 18 ]. Mosquito-associated Ascomycota species, detected by culture-dependent or -independent methods, belong mostly to the Pezizomycotina and Saccharomycotina subphyla [ 14 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 ]. Among them (see Table S1 ), several species of filamentous fungi ( Aspergillus gracilis , A. puulaauensis , Cladosporium sp., Phaeophleospora hymenocallidicola , Penicillium sp.)…”

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Mosquito Mycobiota: An Overview of Non-Entomopathogenic Fungal Interactions

2020

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The growing expansion of mosquito vectors leads to the emergence of vector-borne diseases in new geographic areas and causes major public health concerns. In the absence of effective preventive treatments against most pathogens transmitted, vector control remains one of the most suitable strategies to prevent mosquito-borne diseases. Insecticide overuse raises mosquito resistance and deleterious impacts on the environment and non-target species. Growing knowledge of mosquito biology has allowed the development of alternative control methods. Following the concept of holobiont, mosquito-microbiota interactions play an important role in mosquito biology. Associated microbiota is known to influence many aspects of mosquito biology such as development, survival, immunity or even vector competence. Mosquito-associated microbiota is composed of bacteria, fungi, protists, viruses and nematodes. While an increasing number of studies have focused on bacteria, other microbial partners like fungi have been largely neglected despite their huge diversity. A better knowledge of mosquito-mycobiota interactions offers new opportunities to develop innovative mosquito control strategies. Here, we review the recent advances concerning the impact of mosquito-associated fungi, and particularly nonpathogenic fungi, on life-history traits (development, survival, reproduction), vector competence and behavior of mosquitoes by focusing on Culex, Aedes and Anopheles species.

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“…There are several studies on this ecological group of fungi in Egypt, such as Badran & Aly (1995) , Shoulkamy et al (1997) , Shoulkamy & Lucarotti (1998) , Hafez et al (1997) , Sewify (1997) , Abdel-Baky (2000) , Sewify < 3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119022140/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 - fn1#fn1& > Hashem (2001) , Abdel-Sater & Eraky (2002) , Ali (2003) , < 3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119022140/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 - fn1#fn1 > Abdel-Mallek et al (2003 a , b ), El-Hady (2004) , Mourad et al (2005) , Abdel-Mallek & Abdel-Rahman (2006) , El-Maraghy et al (2006) , and Moubasher et al (2010) . As a result of these only 18 species belonging to 13 genera were recorded as entomopathogenic fungi of Egypt.…”

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The history, fungal biodiversity, conservation, and future perspectives for mycology in Egypt

Abdel-Azeem

2010

IMA Fungus

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Records of Egyptian fungi, including lichenized fungi, are scattered through a wide array of journals, books, and dissertations, but preliminary annotated checklists and compilations are not all readily available. This review documents the known available sources and compiles data for more than 197 years of Egyptian mycology. Species richness is analysed numerically with respect to the systematic position and ecology. Values of relative species richness of different systematic and ecological groups in Egypt compared to values of the same groups worldwide, show that our knowledge of Egyptian fungi is fragmentary, especially for certain systematic and ecological groups such as Agaricales, Glomeromycota, and lichenized, nematode-trapping, entomopathogenic, marine, aquatic and coprophilous fungi, and also yeasts. Certain groups have never been studied in Egypt, such as Trichomycetes and black yeasts. By screening available sources of information, it was possible to delineate 2281 taxa belonging to 755 genera of fungi, including 57 myxomycete species as known from Egypt. Only 105 taxa new to science have been described from Egypt, one belonging to Chytridiomycota, 47 to Ascomycota, 55 to anamorphic fungi and one to Basidiomycota.

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Studies on the mycotic inhabitants ofCulex pipiens collected from fresh water ponds in Egypt

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Patterns of Fungal Community Assembly Across Two Culex Mosquito Species

Patterns of Fungal Community Assembly Across Two Culex Mosquito Species

Mosquito Mycobiota: An Overview of Non-Entomopathogenic Fungal Interactions

The history, fungal biodiversity, conservation, and future perspectives for mycology in Egypt

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