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1 November 2006 Movement of Dengue Vectors Between the Human Modified Environment and an Urban Forest in Rio de Janeiro
Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas, Roman Brocki Neto, Jaylei Monteiro Gonçalves, Claudia Torres Codeço, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira
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Abstract

The movement of Aedes aegypti (L.) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse) females between sylvatic and urban environments was investigated by marking, releasing, and recapturing adults and by identifying rubidium (Rb)-marked eggs of females that were released after taking a bloodmeal containing RbCl. When released in the forest, Ae. albopictus females flew as far as 1,000 m and reached houses within 1 wk. When Ae. albopictus were released close to houses, most females were recaptured near the release point, and Rb-marked eggs were found 1,000 m away in the forest only once, 35 d after the release. These differing patterns of movement may suggest a preference of Ae. albopictus for the human-modified environment. Ae. aegypti, however, showed low tendency to disperse into the forest. The capacity of Ae. albopictus females to disperse from a sylvatic into a human-modified environment suggests that this species may play a role in the dissemination of forest-restricted pathogens, such as yellow fever virus.

Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas, Roman Brocki Neto, Jaylei Monteiro Gonçalves, Claudia Torres Codeço, and Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira "Movement of Dengue Vectors Between the Human Modified Environment and an Urban Forest in Rio de Janeiro," Journal of Medical Entomology 43(6), 1112-1120, (1 November 2006). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585(2006)43[1112:MODVBT]2.0.CO;2
Received: 23 June 2005; Accepted: 5 December 2005; Published: 1 November 2006
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KEYWORDS
Aedes aegypti
Aedes albopictus
dispersal
Stegomyia
yellow fever
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