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. 2023 May 25;17(8):1143–1152. doi: 10.1038/s41396-023-01436-7

Table 1.

Influence of specific microbes on mosquito physiology and pathogen transmission.

Mosquito species Microbiota species Locations Functions Refs
Aedes aegypti Wolbachia* Malpighian tubules, ovaries, and testes Life span, CI, PB effect, immune activation, inhibition parasites [78, 85, 86]
Serratia marcescens Gut Arboviruses infection promotion, colonization, and blood-feeding [29, 87]
Beauveria bassiana Life span, PB effect [88]
Talaromyces DENV infection promotion, blood-digesting [89]
Aedes atropalpus Comamonas Gut Development and oviposition [90]
Aedes albopictus, Asaia* Unknow Immune activation and against Plasmodium [16]
Wolbachia* Ovaries, midguts, and salivary glands CI [91]

Aedes aegypti, Anopheles stephensi*, Anopheles gambiae

Anopheles coluzzii

Asaia Gut, ovaries, testes, and salivary glands Life span, nutrition, development, immune activation, against Plasmodium, insecticide resistance [16, 92, 93]
Anopheles gambiae Enterobacter Gut Against Plasmodium [67]
Serratia marcescens Immune activation [79]
Pantoea agglomerans Against Plasmodium [94]
Penicillium chrysogenum Immune inhibition, enhance Plasmodium infection [95]
Anopheles stephensi

Serratia ureilytica

Su_YN1

Gut Against Plasmodium via secreting an antimalarial lipase [15]
Serratia marcescens Agaist Plasmodium [96]
Beauveria bassiana Gut, hemocoel Life span [97]
Wickerhamomyces anomalus Gut Against Plasmodium [98]
Wolbachia* Midguts, salivary glands, fat bodies, and ovaries PB, CI [99]
Anopheles sinensis Serratia Y1 Gut Immune activation, inhibit Plasmodium [14]
Anopheles coluzzii Chromobacterium violaceum Unknow Life span, blood-feeding, reproduction [100]
Serratia Gut Insecticide resistance [93]
Culex pipiens Klebsiella sp. Unknow Nutrition, development, oviposition [101]
Aeromonas sp. Unknow Nutrition, development, oviposition [101]
Culex quinquefasciatus Wolbachia* Ovaries, and salivary glands CI, PB [35]

*Transinfection.

CI cytoplasmic incompatibility, PB pathogen blocking.