Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes on the Galápagos Islands
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Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes on the Galápagos Islands N. K. Whiteman et l. Short comm nicat on Establishment of the avian disease vector Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823 (Diptera: Culicidae) on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador NOAH KERNESS WHITEMAN, 1 * SIMON J. GOODMAN, 2 BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR, 3 TIM WALSH, 4 , 5 † ANDREW A. CUNNINGHAM, 2 LAURA D. KRAMER 6 & PATRICIA G. PARKER 1 1 Department of Biology & International Center for Tropical Ecology, University of Missouri-Saint Louis, Research Building 223, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, Saint Louis, MO 63121, USA 2 Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4RY, UK 3 Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany 4 Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador 5 Saint Louis Zoo, One Government Drive, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA 6 Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Slingerlands, NY 12159, USA
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Evidence for regular ongoing introductions of mosquito disease vectors into the Galapagos Islands.
Wildlife on isolated oceanic islands is highly susceptible to the introduction of pathogens. The recent establishment in the Galápagos Islands of the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus, a vector for diseases such as avian malaria and West Nile fever, is considered a serious risk factor for the archipelago's endemic fauna. Here we present evidence from the monitoring of aeroplanes and genetic analy...
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