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Acoustic communication in insect disease vectors

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Date
12/2013
Author
Vigoder, Felipe de Mello
Ritchie, Michael Gordon
Gibson, Gabriella
Peixoto, Alexandre Afranio
Keywords
Sandflies
Mosquitoes
Triatomines
Tsetse
Lutzomyia-longipalpis diptera
Glossina-morsitans-morsitans
Triatoma-infestans hemiptera
Anopheles-gambiae
Sexual-behavior
Aedes-aegypti
Sound production
Molecular-forms
Reproductive isolation
Courtship song
QH301 Biology
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Abstract
Acoustic signalling has been extensively studied in insect species, which has led to a better understanding of sexual communication, sexual selection and modes of speciation. The significance of acoustic signals for a blood-sucking insect was first reported in the XIX century by Christopher Johnston, studying the hearing organs of mosquitoes, but has received relatively little attention in other disease vectors until recently. Acoustic signals are often associated with mating behaviour and sexual selection and changes in signalling can lead to rapid evolutionary divergence and may ultimately contribute to the process of speciation. Songs can also have implications for the success of novel methods of disease control such as determining the mating competitiveness of modified insects used for mass-release control programs. Species-specific sound "signatures" may help identify incipient species within species complexes that may be of epidemiological significance, e. g. of higher vectorial capacity, thereby enabling the application of more focussed control measures to optimise the reduction of pathogen transmission. Although the study of acoustic communication in insect vectors has been relatively limited, this review of research demonstrates their value as models for understanding both the functional and evolutionary significance of acoustic communication in insects.
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Vigoder , F D M , Ritchie , M G , Gibson , G & Peixoto , A A 2013 , ' Acoustic communication in insect disease vectors ' , Memorias do instituto oswaldo cruz , vol. 108 , no. Supplement 1 , pp. 26-33 . https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-0276130390
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Memorias do instituto oswaldo cruz
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-0276130390
ISSN
0074-0276
Type
Journal article
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762013000900026&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5032

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