Biology

Life cycle completion of parasite Ascogregarina taiwanensis (Apicomplexa: Lecudinidae) in non-native host Ochlerotatus japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae)

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Ascogregarina taiwanensis (Lien and Levine), a protist gut parasite of Aedes albopictus (Skuse), is not known to complete its life cycle within the potential competitor species, Ochlerotatus japonicus (Theobald). In a laboratory cross infection study we demonstrated that A. taiwanensis completed its life cycle within Oc. japonicus and remained infectious. We also sampled cohabitating mosquito larvae in Mercer County, NJ, and based on ribosomal DNA sequence data, we determined that Oc. japonicus cohabitating with Ae. albopictus can become infected with A. taiwanensis. © 2012 Entomological Society of America.

Publication Title

Journal of Medical Entomology

Publication Date

9-2012

Volume

49

Issue

5

First Page

1109

Last Page

1117

ISSN

0022-2585

DOI

10.1603/ME12018

Keywords

Ascogregarina taiwanensis, mosquito, Ochlerotatus japonicus, parasite

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