{"id":11711,"date":"2016-07-21T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=11711"},"modified":"2016-07-21T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T10:00:17","slug":"invasive-mosquito-helps-break-the-spread-of-a-parasite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2016\/07\/21\/invasive-mosquito-helps-break-the-spread-of-a-parasite\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive mosquito helps break the spread of a parasite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11712\" style=\"width: 3274px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2016\/07\/Westby_barretti2-trophozoites-in-triseriatus-midgut-credit-E-_Biro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11712\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11712 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2016\/07\/Westby_barretti2-trophozoites-in-triseriatus-midgut-credit-E-_Biro.jpg\" alt=\"A microscopic image of Ascogregarina barretti trophozoites in the midgut tissue of a native North American Aedes triseriatus mosquito. Credit, E. Biro.\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A microscopic image of <i>Ascogregarina barretti<\/i> trophozoites in the midgut tissue of a native North American <i>Aedes triseriatus<\/i> mosquito. <i>Credit, E. Biro<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some species of mosquitoes spread dangerous human diseases. But mosquitoes have their own parasites, like the protozoan <em>Ascogregarina barretti<\/em>, which is related to the organisms that cause malaria and toxoplasmosis, and infects the native North American mosquito\u00a0<em>Aedes triseriatus.<\/em>\u00a0The invasive mosquito,\u00a0<em>Aedes japonicus<\/em>, a recent arrival in North America, does not contract <em>As. barretti<\/em>. Will the presence of <em>Ae. japonicus<\/em> dilute the prevalence of the parasite in the native mosquito? Find out this August at Katie Westby\u2019s talk during <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/ftlauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESA\u2019s 2016 Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale<\/a>, Florida.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eco.confex.com\/eco\/2016\/webprogram\/Paper59538.html\">COS 6-6<\/a> -Interactive effects of species invasion and habitat quality on parasite prevalence: Evidence of a dilution effect<\/li>\n<li><em>Monday, August 8, 2016: 3:20 PM, room 124\/125, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Katie M. Westby<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>, Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis, Eureka, MO<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>Browse more <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esa\/mosquito-ecology-and-disease-at-esa2016\/\">presentations about mosquito ecology<\/a> at the 2016 Annual Meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some species of mosquitoes spread dangerous human diseases. But mosquitoes have their own parasites, like the protozoan Ascogregarina barretti, which is related to the organisms that cause malaria and toxoplasmosis, and infects the native North American mosquito\u00a0Aedes triseriatus.\u00a0The invasive mosquito,\u00a0Aedes japonicus, a recent arrival in North America, does not contract As. barretti. Will the presence of Ae. japonicus dilute the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":11712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,2],"tags":[300,126,1779,1780,109,1786,1775,224],"class_list":["post-11711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings","category-research","tag-annual-meeting","tag-disease-ecology","tag-esa2016","tag-esa2016-annual-meeting","tag-invasive-species","tag-mosquito-ecology","tag-mosquitoes","tag-parasites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}