eprintid: 46144
rev_number: 19
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datestamp: 2023-07-13 08:23:30
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type: journalp
metadata_visibility: show
doclang: en
projects: ch-ethz
projects: ch-fibl-crop-protection
projects: ch-uni-zuerich
projects: us
refereed: yes
budget: 0
docurl: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1156311/full
publicfulltext: TRUE
creators_name: Lucas-Barbosa, Dani
creators_name: Balvers, Carlijn
creators_name: Bellantuono, Anthony J.
creators_name: Castillo, John S.
creators_name: Costa-da-Silva, André L.
creators_name: De Moraes, Consuelo M.
creators_name: DeGennaro, Matthew
creators_name: Verhulst, Niels O.
title: Competition matters: using in vitro community models to study the impact of human skin bacteria on mosquito attraction
ispublished: pub
subjects: 5transfer
subjects: 9education
keywords: human skin bacteria, Aedes (Ae.) aegypti, in vitro communities, volatiles, mosquito
abstract: The human skin bacteria play an important role in the production of volatiles that attract mosquitoes. Using some of the most abundant human skin bacterial species, we created in vitro community models to assess whether increased microbial biodiversity could reduce human attractiveness to females of the dengue fever mosquito Aedes aegypti and whether co-culturing bacterial commensals affects overall attraction. More complex bacterial models were less attractive to female mosquitoes than the simplest models. For instance, the triple bacterial community model was approximately three times less attractive
than Staphylococcus epidermidis alone. Our data show, for instance, that an in vitro community model mimicking the skin composition of a highly attractive individual to the anthropophilic Anopheles gambiae was also more attractive
to anthropophilic Ae. aegypti than a community model mimicking the skin composition of a poorly attractive individual to An. gambiae. In line with these
results, volatile analyses of the blends emitted by the different in vitro community models showed that the more complex models had lower emission overall.
Effects on mosquito responses differed sharply when the different bacteria species were sharing the same resources used for growth, showing that either competition or commensalism may influence their relative growth, and that this consequently can influence mosquito responses. We conclude that studies on mosquito responses to skin volatiles need to take the microbial community into
account.
date: 2023-05-23
date_type: published
publication: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
volume: 11
full_text_status: public
pagerange: 1-10
official_url: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1156311
id_number: doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1156311
issn: 2296-701X
contact_email: dani.lucas-barbosa@fibl.org
conf_subm: not_subm
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: in vitro
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: mosquitoes -> Culicidae
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37563
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2016
fp7_project: no
access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
citation:    Lucas-Barbosa, Dani; Balvers, Carlijn; Bellantuono, Anthony J.; Castillo, John S.; Costa-da-Silva, André L.; De Moraes, Consuelo M.; DeGennaro, Matthew and Verhulst, Niels O.   (2023) Competition matters: using in vitro community models to study the impact of human skin bacteria on mosquito attraction.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, pp. 1-10.        
document_url: /id/eprint/46144/1/Lucas-Barbosa_et_al_FEE_2023_in_vitro_models.pdf