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Study elucidates evolution of mosquitoes and their hosts | ScienceDaily

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Researchers at North Carolina State University and global collaborators have mapped the mosquito's tree of life, a major step toward understanding important traits, such as how the insects choose their hosts, feed on blood and spread disease. The findings will help researchers make better predictions to model disease transmission and understand what makes some mosquitoes better disease carriers than others. The research suggests that mosquito evolution over the past 200 million years mirrors the Earth's history of shifting land masses and changing host organisms, says Dr. Brian Wiegmann, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Entomology at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the mosquito family tree, published in Nature Communications. "This ongoing project builds a big-data resource that mines the academic literature with published observations of the sources of blood mosquitoes drink, from animals as diverse as fish to humans," Wiegmann said. "It focuses explicitly on

Study elucidates evolution of mosquitoes and their hosts | ScienceDaily Science News from research organizations Study elucidates evolution of mosquitoes and their hosts Date: October 18, 2023 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: Study creates a mosquito family tree to better understand disease transmission and host choice. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email FULL STORY Researchers at North Carolina State University and global collaborators have mapped the mosquito's tree of life, a major step toward understanding important traits, such as how the insects choose their

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