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ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY, VOL 59, 2014
Volume 59, Issue -, Pages 73-U691Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-011613-162023
Keywords
dormancy; aestivation; insect seasonality; global warming; disease transmission; population variation
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- NIAID NIH HHS [5R21AI081041-02, R21 AI081041, R01 AI1058279] Funding Source: Medline
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Diapause, a dominant feature in the life history of many mosquito species, offers a mechanism for bridging unfavorable seasons in both temperate and tropical environments and serves to synchronize development within populations, thus directly affecting disease transmission cycles. The trait appears to have evolved independently numerous times within the Culicidae, as exemplified by the diverse developmental stages of diapause in closely related species. Its impact is pervasive, not only influencing the arrested stage, but also frequently altering physiological processes both before and after diapause. How the diapause response can be molded evolutionarily is critical for understanding potential range expansions of native and newly introduced species. The study of hormonal regulation of mosquito diapause has focused primarily on adult diapause, with little current information available on larval diapause or the intriguing maternal effects that regulate egg diapause. Recent quantitative trait locus, transcriptome, and RNA interference studies hold promise for interpreting the complex suite of genes that subserve the diapause phenotype.
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