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- Title
Diapause and quiescence: dormancy mechanisms that contribute to the geographical expansion of mosquitoes and their evolutionary success.
- Authors
Araujo Diniz, Diego Felipe; Ribeiro de Albuquerque, Cleide Maria; Oliveira Oliva, Luciana; Varjal de Melo-Santos, Maria Alice; Junqueira Ayres, Constância Flávia
- Abstract
Mosquitoes are insects belonging to the order Diptera and family Culicidae. They are distributed worldwide and include approximately 3500 species, of which about 300 have medical and veterinary importance. The evolutionary success of mosquitoes, in both tropical and temperate regions, is due to the various survival strategies these insects have developed throughout their life histories. Of the many adaptive mechanisms, diapause and quiescence, two different types of dormancy, likely contribute to the establishment, maintenance and spread of natural mosquito populations. This review seeks to objectively and coherently describe the terms diapause and quiescence, which can be confused in the literature because the phenotypic effects of these mechanisms are often similar.
- Subjects
DIAPAUSE; DORMANCY (Biology); MOSQUITO genetics; INSECT genetics; PHENOTYPES
- Publication
Parasites & Vectors, 2017, Vol 10, p1
- ISSN
1756-3305
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13071-017-2235-0