期刊
CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 30, 期 18, 页码 3570-+出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.092
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资金
- Pew
- Klingenstein-Simons
- Gruber Foundation
- National Institutes of Health [R00DC012069, R01AI101112, U01AI115595]
- Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- African Studies Program
- Verily Life Sciences
- New York Stem Cell Foundation
The majority of mosquito-borne illness is spread by a few mosquito species that have evolved to specialize in biting humans, yet the precise causes of this behavioral shift are poorly understood. We address this gap in the arboviral vector Aedes aegypti. We first collect and characterize the behavior of mosquitoes from 27 sites scattered across the species' ancestral range in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing previously unrecognized variation in preference for human versus animal odor We then use modeling to show that over 80% of this variation can be predicted by two ecological factors-dry season intensity and human population density. Finally, we integrate this information with whole-genome sequence data from 375 individual mosquitoes to identify a single underlying ancestry component linked to human preference. Genetic changes associated with human specialist ancestry were concentrated in a few chromosomal regions. Our findings suggest that human-biting in this important disease vector originally evolved as a by-product of breeding in human-stored water in areas where doing so provided the only means to survive the long, hot dry season. Our model also predicts that the rapid urbanization currently taking place in Africa will drive further mosquito evolution, causing a shift toward human-biting in many large cities by 2050.
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