Hold your breath – Differential behavioral and sensory acuity of mosquitoes to acetone and carbon dioxide

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Autoři: Majid Ghaninia ^aff001; Shahid Majeed ^aff003; Teun Dekker ^aff003; Sharon R. Hill ^aff003; Rickard Ignell ^aff003
Působiště autorů: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America ^aff001; Division of Entomology, Department of Plant Protection, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran ^aff002; Disease Vector Group, Unit of Chemical Ecology, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden ^aff003
Vyšlo v časopise: PLoS ONE 14(12)
Kategorie: Research Article
prolekare.web.journal.doi_sk: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226815

Souhrn

Host seeking in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles coluzzii, relies on specific and generic host-derived odorants. Previous analyses indicate that the behavioral response of these species depends differentially on the presence of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other constituents in human breath for activation and attraction. In this study, we use a flight tube assay and electrophysiological analysis to assess the role of acetone, a major component of exhaled human breath, in modulating the behavioral and sensory neuronal response of these mosquito species, in the presence and absence of CO₂. When presented alone at ecologically relevant concentrations, acetone increases attraction in Ae. aegypti, but not in An. coluzzii. Moreover, in combination with CO₂, human breath-equivalents of acetone ranging between 0.1 and 10 ppm reproduces a behavioral response similar to that observed to human breath in host-seeking Ae. aegypti, but not in An. coluzzii. Acetone does, however, reduce attraction to CO₂ in An. coluzzii, when presented at a higher concentration of 10 ppm. We identify the capitate peg A neuron of the maxillary palp of both species as a dual detector of CO₂ and acetone. The sensory response to acetone, or binary blends of acetone and CO₂, reflects the observed behavioral output in both Ae. aegypti and An. coluzzii. We conclude that host recognition is contextual and dependent on a combination of ecologically relevant odorants at naturally occurring concentrations that are encoded, in this case, by differences in the temporal structure of the neuronal response. This information should be considered when designing synthetic blends for that optimally attract mosquitoes for monitoring and control.

Klíčová slova:

Behavior – Animal behavior – Carbon dioxide – Neurons – Acetones – Mosquitoes – Aedes aegypti – Sensory neurons

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Hold your breath – Differential behavioral and sensory acuity of mosquitoes to acetone and carbon dioxide

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