The Mosquitoes of Victoria (Diptera, Culicidae)

Stone, Alan

doi:10.1093/besa/12.2.229a

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“…smithii is the single temperate species from a large neotropical genus (16,17) and displays a geographical distribution that closely follows that of its host plant, Sarracenia purpurea, from the Gulf of Mexico north to Canada and from Labrador west to Alberta (10,18). W. smithii separates into two geographic groups, a southern group at low elevations in the southeastern coastal plain from Mississippi to North Carolina and a northern group including populations in the southern Appalachian Mountains and populations extending from Maryland northward to Labrador and westward to northern Alberta.…”

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Resolving postglacial phylogeography using high-throughput sequencing

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The distinction between model and nonmodel organisms is becoming increasingly blurred. High-throughput, second-generation sequencing approaches are being applied to organisms based on their interesting ecological, physiological, developmental, or evolutionary properties and not on the depth of genetic information available for them. Here, we illustrate this point using a low-cost, efficient technique to determine the fine-scale phylogenetic relationships among recently diverged populations in a species. This application of restriction site-associated DNA tags (RAD tags) reveals previously unresolved genetic structure and direction of evolution in the pitcher plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii, from a southern Appalachian Mountain refugium following recession of the Laurentide Ice Sheet at 22,000-19,000 B.P. The RAD tag method can be used to identify detailed patterns of phylogeography in any organism regardless of existing genomic data, and, more broadly, to identify incipient speciation and genome-wide variation in natural populations in general.genomics | restriction site-associated DNA tag | second-generation sequencing | Wyeomyia smithii

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Resolving postglacial phylogeography using high-throughput sequencing

Emerson

Merz

Catchen

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Around 3,500 species of Culicidae have been described around the world, some of which are of importance in public health because they are vectors of human and animal pathogens (Stone et al 1959, Belkin et al 1966, Harbach 2013. Various culicid species can be found in the habitats in these urban parks, where their populations are protected and can be maintained (Medeiros-Sousa et al 2013).…”

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Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) fauna in parks in greater São Paulo, Brazil

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Municipal parks in the city of Sã o Paulo, which are used for leisure purposes, contain remnants of the flora of the Atlantic Forest, as well as lakes and springs, and are home to mammals, birds and arthropods, some of which can be vectors of disease. The eastern side of the city has the largest population in Sã o Paulo and twenty-four municipal parks. The aim of this study was to investigate Culicidae fauna in two parks on this side of the city and to determine which of the Culicidae species identified have the potential to act as bioindicators and vectors of human pathogens. Culicidae were collected monthly between March 2011 and February 2012 in Carmo Park and Chico Mendes Park with battery-powered aspirators, Shannon traps and CDC traps for adult mosquitoes, and larval dippers and suction samplers for immature mosquitoes. To confirm sample sufficiency, the EstimateS program was used to plot sample-based species accumulation curves and estimate total richness by the Jackknife 1 method. In all, 1,092 culicids from nine genera (Aedes, Anopheles, Coquillettidia, Culex, Limatus, Mansonia, Trichoprosopon, Toxorhynchites and Uranotaenia) and nineteen taxonomic units were collected in Carmo Park. Coquillettidia venezuelensis (Theobald 1912), Aedes scapularis (Rondani 1848) and Culex (Culex) spp. Linnaeus 1758 were the most abundant adults, and Culex (Melanoconion) spp. Theobald 1903 and Anopheles strodei Root 1926 the most abundant immature mosquitoes. In Chico Mendes Park 4,487 mosquitoes in six genera and eighteen taxonomic units were collected. Culex (Cux.) spp. and Ae. scapularis were the most abundant adults, and Ae. albopictus (Skuse 1984) the most abundant immature mosquitoes. The species accumulation curves in both parks were close to the asymptote, and the total richness estimate was close to the observed richness. Some culicid taxons are bioindicators of environmental conditions in the areas they inhabit. It is important to monitor native fauna in municipal parks in Sã o Paulo as various species in this study were found to have vector competence and capacity to transmit pathogens, such as arboviruses. Keywords: Diversity, culicids, mosquitoes, municipal parks.PAULA, M.B., FERNANDES, A., MEDEIROS-SOUSA, A.R., CERETTI-JUNIOR, W., CHRISTE, R.O., STROEBEL, R., PEDROSA, L., ALMEIDA, R., CARVALHO, G.C., PEREIRA, U., JACINTHO, M., NATAL, D., MARRELLI, M.T.

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“…No additional information was provided until Duret (1954) again listed these species as new and provided detailed descriptions and information on types and type locality for each. Stone, Knight and Starcke (1959) listed the date of publication for these species as 1953, but incorrectly cited page numbers from both the 1953 and 1954 papers (the second paper by Duret, while dated 1953, was not published until 1954). Knight and Stone (1977) 4.…”

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“…Sirivanakarn (1983) recognized 150 species, but only provided illustrations for males of 46 species and females of 13 species. He provided keys for recognizing infrasubgeneric groups of species based on morphological characters observed in adults, male genitalia,some species, certain country records were first recorded in A synoptic catalog of the mosquitoes of the world by Stone, Knight and Starcke (1959). Although a catalog seems to be an unlikely place to find new distribution records, these are valid records based on specimens which Alan Stone personally examined and identified while serving as curator of the U.S. National Mosquito Collection (Stone et al 1959: 4).…”

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