State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Medicine, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China.
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Nat Ecol Evol. 2024 May;8(5):947-959. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02365-0. Epub 2024 Mar 22.
Mosquito transmitted viruses are responsible for an increasing burden of human disease. Despite this, little is known about the diversity and ecology of viruses within individual mosquito hosts. Here, using a meta-transcriptomic approach, we determined the viromes of 2,438 individual mosquitoes (81 species), spanning ~4,000 km along latitudes and longitudes in China. From these data we identified 393 viral species associated with mosquitoes, including 7 (putative) species of arthropod-borne viruses (that is, arboviruses). We identified potential mosquito species and geographic hotspots of viral diversity and arbovirus occurrence, and demonstrated that the composition of individual mosquito viromes was strongly associated with host phylogeny. Our data revealed a large number of viruses shared among mosquito species or genera, enhancing our understanding of the host specificity of insect-associated viruses. We also detected multiple virus species that were widespread throughout the country, perhaps reflecting long-distance mosquito dispersal. Together, these results greatly expand the known mosquito virome, linked viral diversity at the scale of individual insects to that at a country-wide scale, and offered unique insights into the biogeography and diversity of viruses in insect vectors.
蚊媒传播的病毒是导致人类疾病负担不断增加的原因之一。尽管如此,对于单个蚊宿主内病毒的多样性和生态学,我们知之甚少。在这里,我们采用宏转录组学方法,对中国约 4000 公里范围内的 2438 只蚊子(81 个物种)进行了病毒组分析。从这些数据中,我们鉴定出了 393 种与蚊子相关的病毒,包括 7 种(推定)虫媒病毒(即虫媒病毒)。我们鉴定出了潜在的具有高病毒多样性和虫媒病毒发生的蚊种和地理热点,并表明了单个蚊子病毒组的组成与宿主系统发育密切相关。我们的数据揭示了许多在蚊种或属之间共享的病毒,这增强了我们对昆虫相关病毒宿主特异性的理解。我们还检测到了多种在全国范围内广泛分布的病毒,这可能反映了蚊子的远距离传播。总之,这些结果极大地扩展了已知的蚊子病毒组,将个体昆虫层面的病毒多样性与全国范围的病毒多样性联系起来,并为昆虫媒介中的病毒的生物地理学和多样性提供了独特的见解。
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