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Aedes (also known as the tiger mosquito) is a genus of mosquitoes originally found in tropical and subtropical zones, but now found on all continents except Antarctica. Some species have been spread by human activity : Aedes albopictus , a particularly invasive species , was spread to the Americas , including the United States , in the 1980s ...
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Oct 31, 2018 · Regardless of whether Aedes aegypti is “the most dangerous animal in the world” (Powell 2016), there is little doubt that this mosquito has caused immense human suffering over centuries. Early in the twentieth century it was identified as the carrier of the yellow fever virus.
- Jeffrey R Powell, Andrea Gloria-Soria, Panayiota Kotsakiozi
- 2018
Mar 18, 2024 · Aedes, genus of more than 950 species of mosquitoes (order Diptera ), some members of which are serious biting nuisances and vectors of disease, sometimes transmitting potentially deadly pathogens (disease-causing organisms) to humans and other animals.
- Kara Rogers
Mar 4, 2019 · We tabulated annualized presence records that documented the first detection of each species in 1,567 different locations over 39 years in Europe (225 out of 1,588 districts between 1979 and 2017 ...
Nov 1, 2018 · Crawford JE, Alves JM, Palmer WJ, Day JP, Sylla M, Ramasamy R, Surendran SN, Black WC, Pain A, Jiggins FA. 2017. Population genomics reveals that an anthropophilic population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Africa recently gave rise to American and Asian populations of this major disease vector. BMC Biology 15:16.
