Aedes albopictus Transcriptome or Gene expression

Temperate insects are able to survive through the harsh conditions of winter by undergoing photoperiodic diapause, a pre-programmed developmental arrest in response to token seasonal photoperiod. The invasive Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), represents an emerging model to investigate the molecular basis of photoperiodic diapause in a well-defined ecological and evolutionary context. Under diapause-inducing conditions, adult females perceive the short-day signal and produce diapause offspring. Here, we present sequences of the transcriptome of adult Aedes albopictus under diapause- or non-diapause-inducing conditions, with or without a blood meal, to investigate the global transcriptional dynamics during diapause induction.