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Mating Behavior and Gonotrophic Cycle in Anopheles gambiae Complex and their Significance in Vector Competence and Malaria Vector Control

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Desta Ejeta Fereda*
Issue: Volume3-Issue1
Pages: 031-043
Received: 2021-12-23
Accepted: 2022-01-11
Published: 2022-01-12

Abstract

Anopheles gambiae complex mosquitoes comprise different morphologically identical species and the most medically important malaria vectors in Africa. Understanding An. gambiae complex mosquitoes’ mating behaviour is a clue for prevention and control of malaria. The factors affecting the mating behavior of An. gambiae complex are age, body size, food finding, type of food, host availability and environmental temperature.

An. gambiae complex passes through different and unique mating strategies. The fundamental mechanisms underlying mating behavior of An. gambiae complex are male aggregation before copulation which is called swarming, finding female and insemination. Male in the swarm detects the wing beat of female with which he mates by auditory system. The wing beat frequencies of opposite sex of the same genetic form simply harmonize indicating possible hybridization while that of different genetic forms do not harmonize. The successive mating behavior of female An. gambiae mosquitoes includes, locating a male among the swarm for cupola, friend selection and storage of sperm.

Successful female An. gambiae complex mosquitoes mating is accomplished by host seeking, blood feeding and digestion, egg development and oviposition. The sequential process of host finding and blood feeding followed by blood digestion and simultaneously egg maturation and accomplished by searching of oviposition site and oviposition is referred to as gonotrophic cycle.

The time period between two successive blood feedings or two successive ovipositions is said to be gonotrophic period. The length of gonotrophic period depends on temperature, number of previous gonotrophic cycle, host and breeding site availability. In addition to population net reproduction of the colony, gonotrophic cycle is also used to estimate female mosquitoes’ age by determining the parity.

Finally, understandings of mating behavior and gonotrophic cycle of An. gambiae complex mosquitoes help in malaria vector control strategies and their vector competence.

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Fereda DE. Mating Behavior and Gonotrophic Cycle in Anopheles gambiae Complex and their Significance in Vector Competence and Malaria Vector Control. J Biomed Res Environ Sci. 2022 Jan 12; 3(1): 031-043. doi: 10.37871/jbres1398, Article ID: JBRES1398, Available at: https://www.jelsciences.com/articles/jbres1398.pdf

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