Department of Biology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
BMC Ecol. 2014 Feb 5;14:3. doi: 10.1186/1472-6785-14-3.
Development rates of Aedes aegypti are known to vary with respect to many abiotic and biotic factors including temperature, resource availability, and intraspecific competition. The relative importance of these factors and their interactions are not well established across populations. We performed meta-analysis on a dataset of development rate estimates from 49 studies.
Meta-analytic results indicated that the environmental factor of temperature is sufficient to explain development rate variability in Ae. aegypti. While diet and density may greatly impact other developmental phenotypes, these results suggest that for development rate these factors should never be considered to the exclusion of temperature. The effect of temperature on development rate is not homogenous or constant. The sources of heterogeneity of the effect of temperature are difficult to analyze due to lack of consistent reporting of larval rearing methods.
Temperature is the most important ecological determinant of development rate in Ae. aegypti, but its effect is heterogeneous. Ignoring this heterogeneity is problematic for models of vector population and vector-borne disease transmission.
众所周知，埃及伊蚊的发育速度受许多非生物和生物因素的影响，包括温度、资源可用性和种内竞争。这些因素及其相互作用在不同种群中的相对重要性尚不清楚。我们对来自 49 项研究的发育率估计数据集进行了荟萃分析。
荟萃分析结果表明，温度等环境因素足以解释埃及伊蚊发育率的变异性。虽然饮食和密度可能会极大地影响其他发育表型，但这些结果表明，对于发育率而言，这些因素不应该被排除在温度之外。温度对发育率的影响不是同质或恒定的。由于缺乏对幼虫饲养方法的一致报告，因此难以分析温度影响的异质性来源。
温度是埃及伊蚊发育率的最重要生态决定因素，但它的影响是异质的。忽略这种异质性会给蚊媒种群和蚊媒疾病传播模型带来问题。
