A meta-analysis of the factors influencing development rate variation in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Jannelle Couret²  Mark Q Benedict¹ 

[1] Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Scienze Biochimiche, Sezione di Microbiologia, Edificio B, 3 Piano, Via Gambuli, 06132 Perugia, Italy

[2] Department of Biology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA

关键词: Survival;    Development rate;    Density;    Diet;    Development;    Temperature;    Meta-analysis;    Mosquito;   

Others  :  866329
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6785-14-3

 received in 2013-09-06, accepted in 2014-01-24,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Development rates of Aedes aegypti are known to vary with respect to many abiotic and biotic factors including temperature, resource availability, and intraspecific competition. The relative importance of these factors and their interactions are not well established across populations. We performed meta-analysis on a dataset of development rate estimates from 49 studies.

Results

Meta-analytic results indicated that the environmental factor of temperature is sufficient to explain development rate variability in Ae. aegypti. While diet and density may greatly impact other developmental phenotypes, these results suggest that for development rate these factors should never be considered to the exclusion of temperature. The effect of temperature on development rate is not homogenous or constant. The sources of heterogeneity of the effect of temperature are difficult to analyze due to lack of consistent reporting of larval rearing methods.

Conclusions

Temperature is the most important ecological determinant of development rate in Ae. aegypti, but its effect is heterogeneous. Ignoring this heterogeneity is problematic for models of vector population and vector-borne disease transmission.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Couret and Benedict; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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