A study focusing on the characterization of the microbiota of larvae and adults of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, and on the relative impact of the breeding site water in shaping the bacterial communities.. The microbiota of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus

In this study, we investigated the composition of the bacterial community present in the water from a natural larval breeding site in which we separately reared wild-collected larvae and hatched eggs of the Foshan reference laboratory strain. Using sequence analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplicons, we comparatively analyzed the microbiota of the larvae and that of the adults, deriving information about the relative impact of the breeding site water on shaping mosquito microbiota.