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.

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.

本研究分析了一处天然幼虫滋生地水体中的细菌群落组成，该滋生地中分别饲养了野外采集的幼虫，并孵化了佛山参考实验室品系的虫卵。本研究通过细菌16S rRNA基因扩增子测序分析，对幼虫与成虫的微生物组开展比较分析，以此明确滋生地水体对蚊虫微生物组构建的相对影响程度。