Observations on the vertical transmission of a new Microsporidian pathogen of Aedes aegypti from Thailand.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

1982

Original Publication

Mosquito News

Volume

42

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

049-054

Contributed by

American Mosquito Control Association

Notes

Author(s) - Hembree, S. C. and J. R. Ryan.

 

Abstract

A new microsporidian pathogen of Aedes aegypti from Thailand was vertically transmitted within the egg. Males played little, if any, part in vertical transmission. Infected females produced only about on-third as many progeny as uninfected females. Reduced fecundity in infected females resulted both from the production of fewer eggs and from a lower percent of hatch. In the first gonotrophic cycle not all infected females produced infected progeny, but in subsequent gonotrophic cycles some, but not all. progeny of all infected females were infected.

Notes

Author(s) - Hembree, S. C. and J. R. Ryan.