Mosquito larvae rely on a living microbiota for normal development because the microbiota supplies essential nutrients, particularly vitamins. Beyond vitamin provision, transcriptomic data suggest tha...

Do viral infections accelerate aging, and does this acceleration scale with pathogenicity? Using transcriptomic aging clocks, we measured biological age in Drosophila infected with four enteric RNA vi...

Background Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) such as dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) pose a significant threat to global health. Novel approaches to control the spread of arboviruses foc...

Animals selectively acquire specific symbiotic gut bacteria from their environments that aid host fitness. To colonize, a symbiont must locate its niche and sustain growth within the gut. Adhesins are...

Mosquito larvae require microbiota-derived metabolites and B vitamins to develop. A study shows that male and female Aedes aegypti larvae have different needs and toxicity limits for these metabolites...

Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences that can change their position within a genome. In the

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are vectors for numerous arboviruses that have an increasingly substantial global health burden. Following a bloodmeal, mosquitoes experience significant physiological changes...