Abstract
Some Aedinii mosquitoes are of high importance in the transmission of the sylvatic YFV. Usually, their eggs are very resistant and depend on the rain for their hatching. The present study evaluated the effect of multiple mosquito-egg immersions and the sex ratio of male and female specimens from Atlantic Forest remnants in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Three sampling sites were selected in the municipality of Casimiro de Abreu, where 50 ovitraps were randomly installed to collect eggs from the ground level up to different heights, from August 2018 to December 2020. The mosquito sex ratios were compared between seasons and forest sites, using the generalized linear mixed model (GLMM), which included sampling months and trees as random effects. A total of 33,091 mosquito eggs were collected, of which 6152 eggs were already hatched (18%) and 26,939 were unhatched; of these, approximately 76% subsequently hatched. We found that 25% of the eggs corresponded to four species: Aedes albopictus (n = 1277), Ae. terrens (n = 793), Haemagogus janthinomys (n = 89), and Hg. leucocelaenus (n = 3033). The sex ratio (male:female) was variable concerning the sampling sites and the season. For most species, GLMM estimates found no difference in the variation of the average sex ratio as a function of these predictors, and there was no evidence of temporal autocorrelation in the mosquito data. The number of immersions necessary for hatching the eggs differed between mosquito species, and eggs collected in the dry season hatched both in the first immersions and the subsequent events. Co-occurrence of Aedes terrens and Hg. leucocelaenus was the most frequently observed pairwise species combination. Considering recurrent arbovirus outbreaks in Brazil and their burden on the human population, our study helps to shed light on how these vectors behave in nature; therefore, they can be used in surveillance programs.
Funder
Research Support Foundation of the state of Rio de Janeiro
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
MCTI/CNPq/CAPES/FAPERO-INCT
Fiocruz Rondônia Research Excellence Program—PROEP
Subject
Paleontology,Space and Planetary Science,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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