10.5061/DRYAD.2DM26
Osei-Poku, Jewelna
University of Cambridge
Mbogo, Charles M.
Kenya Medical Research Institute
Palmer, William J.
University of Cambridge
Jiggins, Francis M.
University of Cambridge
Data from: Deep sequencing reveals extensive variation in the gut
microbiota of wild mosquitoes from Kenya.
Dryad
dataset
2012
Proteobacteria
Host Parasite Interactions
Flavobacteria
Firmicutes
mosquito
Acidobacteria
Culicidae
Population ecology
Chloroflexi
Actinobacteria
2012-10-11T20:07:47Z
2012-10-11T20:07:47Z
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05759.x
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The mosquito midgut is a hostile environment that vector-borne parasites
must survive in order to be transmitted. Commensal bacteria in the midgut
can reduce the ability of mosquitoes to transmit disease, either by having
direct anti-parasite effects or by stimulating basal immune responses of
the insect host. As different bacteria have different effects on parasite
development, the composition of the bacterial community in the mosquito
gut is likely to affect the probability of disease transmission. We
investigated the diversity of mosquito gut bacteria in the field using 454
pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA to build up a comprehensive picture of the
diversity of gut bacteria in 8 mosquito species. We found that mosquito
gut typically has a very simple gut microbiota that is dominated by a
single bacterial taxon. Although different mosquito species share
remarkably similar gut bacteria, individuals in a population are extremely
variable and can have little overlap in the bacterial taxa present in
their guts. This may be an important factor in causing differences in
disease transmission rates within mosquito populations.
OTUsMultiple alignment of filtered and annotated bacterial 16S based
OTUs.Osei_Poku2012_OTUs.fasta
Kenya