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Martina Ferraguti Sergio Magallanes Jéssica Jiménez-Peñuela Josué Martínez-de la Puente Luz Garcia-Longoria Jordi Figuerola Jaime Muriel Tamer Albayrak Staffan Bensch Camille Bonneaud Rohan H. Clarke Gábor Á. Czirják Dimitar Dimitrov Kathya Espinoza John G. Ewen Farah Ishtiaq Wendy Flores-Saavedra László Zsolt Garamszegi Olof Hellgren Dita Horakova Kathryn P. Huyvaert Henrik Jensen Asta Križanauskienė Marcos R. Lima Charlene Lujan-Vega Eyðfinn Magnussen Lynn B. Martin Kevin D. Matson Anders Pape Møller Pavel Munclinger Vaidas Palinauskas Péter L. Pap Javier Pérez-Tris Swen C. Renner Robert Ricklefs Sergio Scebba Ravinder N. M. Sehgal Manuel Soler Eszter Szöllősi Gediminas Valkiūnas Helena Westerdahl Pavel Zehtindjiev Alfonso Marzal 《Global Ecology and Biogeography》2023,32(5):809-823
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The increasing spread of vector-borne diseases has resulted in severe health concerns for humans, domestic animals and wildlife, with changes in land use and the introduction of invasive species being among the main possible causes for this increase. We explored several ecological drivers potentially affecting the local prevalence and richness of avian malaria parasite lineages in native and introduced house sparrows (Passer domesticus) populations.Location
Global.Time period
2002–2019.Major taxa studied
Avian Plasmodium parasites in house sparrows.Methods
We analysed data from 2,220 samples from 69 localities across all continents, except Antarctica. The influence of environment (urbanization index and human density), geography (altitude, latitude, hemisphere) and time (bird breeding season and years since introduction) were analysed using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) and random forests.Results
Overall, 670 sparrows (30.2%) were infected with 22 Plasmodium lineages. In native populations, parasite prevalence was positively related to urbanization index, with the highest prevalence values in areas with intermediate urbanization levels. Likewise, in introduced populations, prevalence was positively associated with urbanization index; however, higher infection occurred in areas with either extreme high or low levels of urbanization. In introduced populations, the number of parasite lineages increased with altitude and with the years elapsed since the establishment of sparrows in a new locality. Here, after a decline in the number of parasite lineages in the first 30 years, an increase from 40 years onwards was detected.Main conclusions
Urbanization was related to parasite prevalence in both native and introduced bird populations. In invaded areas, altitude and time since bird introduction were related to the number of Plasmodium lineages found to be infecting sparrows. 相似文献2.
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Travis Longcore Hannah L. Aldern John F. Eggers Steve Flores Lesly Franco Eric Hirshfield-Yamanishi Laina N. Petrinec Wilson A. Yan André M. Barroso 《Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences》2015,370(1667)
Artificial lighting allows humans to be active at night, but has many unintended consequences, including interference with ecological processes, disruption of circadian rhythms and increased exposure to insect vectors of diseases. Although ultraviolet and blue light are usually most attractive to arthropods, degree of attraction varies among orders. With a focus on future indoor lighting applications, we manipulated the spectrum of white lamps to investigate the influence of spectral composition on number of arthropods attracted. We compared numbers of arthropods captured at three customizable light-emitting diode (LED) lamps (3510, 2704 and 2728 K), two commercial LED lamps (2700 K), two commercial compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs; 2700 K) and a control. We configured the three custom LEDs to minimize invertebrate attraction based on published attraction curves for honeybees and moths. Lamps were placed with pan traps at an urban and two rural study sites in Los Angeles, California. For all invertebrate orders combined, our custom LED configurations were less attractive than the commercial LED lamps or CFLs of similar colour temperatures. Thus, adjusting spectral composition of white light to minimize attracting nocturnal arthropods is feasible; not all lights with the same colour temperature are equally attractive to arthropods. 相似文献
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West Nile virus (WNV) has made considerable impact as an emerging infectious disease, spreading from coast to coast across
North America since 1999. The disease has exhibited great spatial variability in North America, making an ecosystems approach
to understanding the local human and vector ecology critical to prevention and control. This study underscores the importance
of employing both personal prevention and community participatory approaches to create messages that have been adapted to
the local ecology and are designed to reduce the risk of human infection with this mosquito-borne virus. As the virus spreads
into new areas, underlying attitudes toward mosquitoes and the local perception of environment/ecology can affect the success
of control and prevention measures. This work presents results from focus group discussions conducted in two Colorado counties
in 2003, a year of significant WNV activity in the state. Issues addressed include residents’ assessment of risk and how this
perception varied by age group and location, use or nonuse of repellents, and community attitudes toward mosquito control
in areas with different ecologies and histories of mosquito-borne disease. The need to address individual components of personal
prevention, to target prevention to specific audiences, and to disseminate prevention messages through local channels is discussed.
The authors propose including aspects of ecology and disease proximity in understanding risk perception and addressing emerging
diseases with a prominent ecological component. 相似文献
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Morgan D 《FEMS immunology and medical microbiology》2006,48(3):305-312
Although there is no recognized transmission of human arboviral infections in the UK, concerns about the possible spread of West Nile virus (WNV) have precipitated coordinated activities around both surveillance and response. The Department of Health has chaired a UK WNV task force since the end of 2000. This is a multidisciplinary group of senior representatives from Agencies and Government Departments involved in human and animal health, entomology and academic departments. Activities include surveillance for WNV infections in humans, and in dead birds, mosquitoes and horses. All have been negative for WNV. A WNV contingency plan was produced in 2004, and this could be used as a generic plan for an effective and coordinated response in the event of the emergence of a new vector-borne zoonotic infection. 相似文献
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Bargeron Clark K Hsiao HM Noisakran S Tsai JJ Perng GC 《The Yale journal of biology and medicine》2012,85(1):3-18
Dengue virus (DV) is one of the most important vector-borne diseases in the world. It causes a disease that manifests as a spectrum of clinical symptoms, including dengue hemorrhagic fever. DV is proficient at diverting the immune system to facilitate transmission through its vector host, Aedes spp. mosquito. Similar to other vector-borne parasites, dengue may also require a second structural form, a virus of alternative morphology (VAM), to complete its life cycle. DV can replicate to high copy numbers in patient plasma, but no classical viral particles can be detected by ultra-structural microscopy analysis. A VAM appearing as a microparticle has been recapitulated with in vitro cell lines Meg01 and K562, close relatives to the cells harboring dengue virus in vivo. VAMs are likely to contribute to the high viremia levels observed in dengue patients. This review discusses the possible existence of a VAM in the DV life cycle. 相似文献
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Jeffrey R Powell 《Genetics》2022,221(3)
For more than 50 years it has been a dream of medical entomologists and public health workers to control diseases like malaria and dengue fever by modifying, through genetics and other methods, the arthropods that transmit them to humans. A brief synopsis of the history of these efforts as applied to mosquitoes is presented; none proved to be effective in reducing disease prevalence. Only in the last few years have novel approaches been developed or proposed that indicate the long wait may be over. Three recent developments are particularly promising: CRISPR-Cas9 driven genetic modification, shifting naturally occurring allele frequencies, and microbe-based modifications. The last is the furthest along in implementation. Dengue fever incidence has been reduced between 40% and 96% in 4 different regions of the world where Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti have been established in the field. It is not yet clear how sustainable such control programs will prove to be, but there is good reason for optimism. In light of this, the time is ripe for reinvigorated research on vectors, especially genetics. Vector-borne diseases primarily affect under-developed countries and thus have not received the attention they deserve from wealthier countries with well-developed and funded biomedical research establishments. 相似文献