Journal of Insect Science (2020) 20 (5 - ieaa096)

Henry Puerta-Guardo, Yamili Contreras-Perera, Silvia Perez-Carrillo, Azael Che-Mendoza, Guadalupe Ayora-Talavera, Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, Abdiel Martin-Park, Dongjing Zhang, Pablo Manrique-Saide and UCBE-LCB team (2020)
Wolbachia in native populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) from Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Journal of Insect Science 20 (5 - ieaa096)
Abstract: This study reports the results of a molecular screening for Wolbachia (Wb) infection in Aedes albopictus (Skuse) populations recently established in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. To do so, collections of free-flying adults with BG traps and emerged adults from eggs after ovitrap field collections were performed in three suburban localities of the city of Merida, Yucatan. Overall, local populations of Ae. albopictus present a natural Wb infection rate of ~40% (18 of 45). Wb infection was detected in both field-collected adults (76.5%, 13 of 17) and eggs reared (17.8%, 5 of 28) and in 37.9% (11/29) of females and 43.7% (7/16) of male Ae. albopictus mosquitoes. An initial screening for Wolbachia strain typing showed that native Ae. albopictus were naturally coinfected with both wAlbA and wAlbB strains. The knowledge of the prevalence and diversity of Wolbachia strains in local populations of Aedes mosquitoes is part of the baseline information required for current and future Wolbachia-based vector control approaches to be conducted in Mexico.
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Database assignments for author(s): Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Aedes albopictus		Mexico