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Open Access 01-12-2007 | Research

The effect of parental rearing conditions on offspring life history in Anopheles stephensi

Authors: Katrina Grech, Liam Aye Maung, Andrew F Read

Published in: Malaria Journal | Issue 1/2007

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Abstract

Background

The environmental conditions experienced by parents are increasingly recognized to impact the success of offspring. Little is known on the presence of such parental effects in Anopheles. If present, parental effects could influence mosquito breeding programmes, some malaria control measures and have epidemiological and evolutionary consequences.

Methods

The presence of parental effects on offspring emergence time, size, survival, blood meal size and fecundity in laboratory reared An. stephensi were tested.

Results

Parental rearing conditions did not influence the time taken for offspring to emerge, or their size or survival as adults. However, parental effects were influential in determining the fecundity of daughters. Counter-intuitively, daughters of parents reared in low food conditions produced larger egg clutches than daughters of parents reared in high food conditions. Offspring reared in low food conditions took larger blood meals if their parents had also experienced a low food environment.

Conclusion

So far as we are aware, this is the first evidence of parental effects on progeny in Anopheles.
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Metadata
Title
The effect of parental rearing conditions on offspring life history in Anopheles stephensi
Authors
Katrina Grech
Liam Aye Maung
Andrew F Read
Publication date
01-12-2007
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Malaria Journal / Issue 1/2007
Electronic ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-130

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