DNA-aided identification of Culex mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) reveals unexpected diversity in underground cavities in Austria
| Autor: | Erhard Christian, Otto Moog, Hans-Peter Fuehrer, Carina Zittra |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Arthropods and Medical Entomology - Original Paper 030231 tropical medicine Zoology Locus (genetics) Hybrids Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Species level Cave Hibernation Culex pipiens parasitic diseases Anopheles Animals Culiseta Parietal fauna Relative species abundance Culex pipiens s. L Ecosystem 030304 developmental biology Hybrid 0303 health sciences geography geography.geographical_feature_category General Veterinary biology fungi General Medicine DNA Culex torrentium biology.organism_classification Adaptation Physiological Europe Caves Culex Infectious Diseases Habitat Insect Science Austria Parasitology Female Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 Microsatellite Repeats |
| Zdroj: | Parasitology Research |
| ISSN: | 1432-1955 0932-0113 |
| Popis: | Subterranean cavities serve as resting places and hibernation shelters for mosquitoes. In Europe, members of the genus Culex are often the most abundant insects on cave walls. Culex pipiens L., the common house mosquito, exists in two physically very similar, yet genetically and ecologically distinct biotypes (or forms, ‘f.’), namely Cx. pipiens f. pipiens and Cx. pipiens f. molestus. Autogeny and stenogamy of the latter form have been interpreted as adaptations to underground habitats. The epigean occurrence of the two biotypes and their hybrids was recently examined in Eastern Austria, but the hypogean distribution of the Cx. pipiens complex and morphologically similar non-members such as Cx. torrentium is unknown. Considering the key role of Culex mosquitoes in the epidemiology of certain zoonotic pathogens, the general paucity of data on species composition and relative abundance in subterranean shelters appears unfortunate. For a first pertinent investigation in Austria, we collected mosquitoes in four eastern federal states. Based on analyses of the ACE2 gene and the CQ11 microsatellite locus, 150 female and three male mosquitoes of the genus Culex, two females of the genus Culiseta and a single female of the genus Anopheles were determined to species level or below. In our catches, Cx. pipiens f. pipiens exceeded the apparent abundance of the purportedly cave-adapted Cx. pipiens f. molestus many times over. Records of Cx. hortensis and Cx. territans, two species rarely collected in Austria, lead us to infer that underground habitats host a higher diversity of culicine mosquitoes than previously thought. |
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