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Open AccessRelative effects of urbanisation, deforestation, and agricultural development on mosquito communities
Despite numerous studies that showed negative effects of landscape anthropisation on species abundance and diversity, the relative effects of urbanisation, deforestation, and agricultural development as well a...
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Open AccessGeographic distribution of the V1016G knockdown resistance mutation in Aedes albopictus: a warning bell for Europe
Colonization of large part of Europe by the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus is causing autochthonous transmission of chikungunya and dengue exotic arboviruses. While pyrethroids are recommended only to redu...
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Open AccessPopulation genetic structure of the Asian bush mosquito, Aedes japonicus (Diptera, Culicidae), in Belgium suggests multiple introductions
Aedes japonicus japonicus has expanded beyond its native range and has established in multiple European countries, including Belgium. In addition to the population located at Natoye, Belgium, locally established ...
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Open AccessAssessing the role of two populations of Aedes japonicus japonicus for Zika virus transmission under a constant and a fluctuating temperature regime
Since the huge epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV) in Brazil in 2015, questions were raised to understand which mosquito species could transmit the virus. Aedes aegypti has been described as the main vector. However, o...
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The invasive Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus in Romania: towards a country-wide colonization?
Currently, five invasive Aedes mosquito species are of concern in Europe according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Ae. atropalpus, Ae. japonicus, and Ae. ...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
In the version of this Article originally published, the affiliation for author Catherine Linard was incorrectly stated as ‘6Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Me...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
This Article was mistakenly not made Open Access when originally published; this has now been amended, and information about the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License has been added into the ‘...
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Open AccessPast and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
The global population at risk from mosquito-borne diseases—including dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika—is expanding in concert with changes in the distribution of two key vectors: Aedes aegypti and Aedes...
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Open AccessEvolution of sexually-transferred steroids and mating-induced phenotypes in Anopheles mosquitoes
Human malaria, which remains a major public health problem, is transmitted by a subset of Anopheles mosquitoes belonging to only three out of eight subgenera: Anopheles, Cellia and Nyssorhynchus. Unlike almost ev...
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Open AccessFirst detection of Aedes japonicus in Spain: an unexpected finding triggered by citizen science
Aedes japonicus is an invasive vector mosquito from Southeast Asia which has been spreading across central Europe since the year 2000. Unlike the Asian Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) present in Spain since 200...
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Open AccessAedes aegypti in the Black Sea: recent introduction or ancient remnant?
The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti transmits viral diseases that have plagued humans for centuries. Its ancestral home are forests of Africa and ~400–600 years ago it invaded the New World and later Europe a...
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Open AccessFirst record of the invasive mosquito species Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on the southernmost Mediterranean islands of Italy and Europe
Aedes albopictus, a known worldwide vector of several mosquito-borne disease pathogens including dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses, was introduced into Europe in the late 1970s thro...
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Open AccessWest Nile virus in overwintering mosquitoes, central Europe
West Nile virus (WNV) is currently the most important mosquito-borne pathogen spreading in Europe. Data on overwintering of WNV in mosquitoes are crucial for understanding WNV circulation in Europe; nonetheles...
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Open AccessSpread of Aedes japonicus japonicus (Theobald, 1901) in Austria, 2011–2015, and first records of the subspecies for Hungary, 2012, and the principality of Liechtenstein, 2015
The Asian bush mosquito, Aedes (Hulecoeteomyia) japonicus japonicus (Theobald, 1901) (Diptera: Culicidae), was first identified in Austria in August 2011 in the federal state of Styria at the border to Slovenia.
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Open AccessThe global compendium of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus occurrence
Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are the main vectors transmitting dengue and chikungunya viruses. Despite being pathogens of global public health importance, knowledge of their vectors’ global distribution remai...
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Open AccessIdentification of phlebotomine sand flies using one MALDI-TOF MS reference database and two mass spectrometer systems
Rapid, accurate and high-throughput identification of vector arthropods is of paramount importance in surveillance programmes that are becoming more common due to the changing geographic occurrence and extent ...
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Open AccessImplementation of surveillance of invasive mosquitoes in Belgium according to the ECDC guidelines
In 2012, the new guidelines for the surveillance of IMS in Europe, produced by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), were tested in Belgium. This study aimed at (1) testing the usefuln...
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Open AccessMonitoring population and environmental parameters of invasive mosquito species in Europe
To enable a better understanding of the overwhelming alterations in the invasive mosquito species (IMS), methodical insight into the population and environmental factors that govern the IMS and pathogen adapta...
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Open AccessBluetongue, Schmallenberg - what is next? Culicoides-borne viral diseases in the 21stCentury
In the past decade, two pathogens transmitted by Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), bluetongue virus and Schmallenberg virus, have caused serious economic losses to the European livestock indust...
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Open AccessRapid protein profiling facilitates surveillance of invasive mosquito species
Invasive aedine mosquito species have become a major issue in many parts of the world as most of them are recognised vectors or potentially involved in transmission of pathogens. Surveillance of these mosquito...
