Grupo Entomología Médica-GEM, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Laboratorio de Investigación en Genética Evolutiva-LIGE, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia.
PLoS One. 2022 Jul 27;17(7):e0263143. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263143. eCollection 2022.
Aedes spp. comprise the primary group of mosquitoes that transmit arboviruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses to humans, and thus these insects pose a significant burden on public health worldwide. Advancements in next-generation sequencing and metagenomics have expanded our knowledge on the richness of RNA viruses harbored by arthropods such as Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus. Increasing evidence suggests that vector competence can be modified by the microbiome (comprising both bacteriome and virome) of mosquitoes present in endemic zones. Using an RNA-seq-based metataxonomic approach, this study determined the virome structure, Wolbachia presence and mitochondrial diversity of field-caught Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes in Medellín, Colombia, a municipality with a high incidence of mosquito-transmitted arboviruses. The two species are sympatric, but their core viromes differed considerably in richness, diversity, and abundance; although the community of viral species identified was large and complex, the viromes were dominated by few virus species. BLAST searches of assembled contigs suggested that at least 17 virus species (16 of which are insect-specific viruses [ISVs]) infect the Ae. aegypti population. Dengue virus 3 was detected in one sample and it was the only pathogenic virus detected. In Ae. albopictus, up to 11 ISVs and one plant virus were detected. Therefore, the virome composition appears to be species-specific. The bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia was identified in all Ae. albopictus samples and in some Ae. aegypti samples collected after 2017. The presence of Wolbachia sp. in Ae. aegypti was not related to significant changes in the richness, diversity, or abundance of this mosquito's virome, although it was related to an increase in the abundance of Aedes aegypti To virus 2 (Metaviridae). The mitochondrial diversity of these mosquitoes suggested that the Ae. aegypti population underwent a change that started in the second half of 2017, which coincides with the release of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in Medellín, indicating that the population of wMel-infected mosquitoes released has introduced new alleles into the wild Ae. aegypti population of Medellín. However, additional studies are required on the dispersal speed and intergenerational stability of wMel in Medellín and nearby areas as well as on the introgression of genetic variants in the native mosquito population.
伊蚊属是主要的传播媒介,可将登革热、寨卡和基孔肯雅热等虫媒病毒传播给人类,因此这些昆虫对全球公共卫生造成了重大负担。下一代测序和宏基因组学的进步扩展了我们对节肢动物(如埃及伊蚊和白纹伊蚊)所携带的 RNA 病毒丰富度的认识。越来越多的证据表明,蚊媒微生物组(包括细菌组和病毒组)可以改变媒介的感染力。本研究采用基于 RNA-seq 的分类群方法,确定了在哥伦比亚麦德林市捕获的埃及伊蚊和白纹伊蚊的病毒组结构、沃尔巴克氏体(Wolbachia)的存在和线粒体多样性,该市蚊媒传播的虫媒病毒发病率较高。这两个物种是同域的,但它们的核心病毒组在丰富度、多样性和丰度上有很大差异;尽管鉴定出的病毒种类数量庞大且复杂,但病毒组主要由少数几种病毒主导。组装的 contigs 的 BLAST 搜索表明,至少有 17 种病毒(其中 16 种是昆虫特异性病毒[ISVs])感染埃及伊蚊种群。在一个样本中检测到了 3 型登革热病毒,这是唯一检测到的致病性病毒。在白纹伊蚊中,检测到多达 11 种 ISVs 和一种植物病毒。因此,病毒组的组成似乎是物种特异性的。细菌内共生体沃尔巴克氏体(Wolbachia)在所有白纹伊蚊样本和 2017 年后收集的一些埃及伊蚊样本中都有发现。在埃及伊蚊中存在沃尔巴克氏体(Wolbachia)与这种蚊子病毒组的丰富度、多样性或丰度的显著变化无关,尽管它与埃及伊蚊 To 病毒 2(Metaviridae)丰度的增加有关。这些蚊子的线粒体多样性表明,埃及伊蚊种群发生了变化,这种变化始于 2017 年下半年,与麦德林释放感染沃尔巴克氏体的蚊子同时发生,这表明释放的感染 wMel 的蚊子种群已经将新的等位基因引入了麦德林野生埃及伊蚊种群。然而,还需要对 wMel 在麦德林及周边地区的扩散速度和代际稳定性以及遗传变异在本地蚊子种群中的渗入进行更多研究。
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