Project description:Semi-field translocations to examine whether gene expression differences between Anopheles gambiae M and S occupying discrete larval habitats are due to inherent molecular form divergence or transcriptional plasticity
Project description:Proteomic analysis of Anopheles gambiae brain tissue after in-gel trypsin digestion. To gain insights into neurobiology of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, we carried out a proteomic analysis of its brain using a comprehensive proteomic approach.
Project description:Malaria morbidity and mortality caused by both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax extend well beyond the African continent, and, although P. vivax causes 80-300 million severe cases each year, vivax transmission remains poorly understood. Plasmodium parasites are transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes, and the critical site of interaction between parasite and host is at the mosquito's luminal midgut brush border. While the genome of the "model" African P. falciparum vector, Anopheles gambiae, has been sequenced, evolutionary divergence limits its utility as a reference across anophelines, especially non-sequenced P. vivax vectors such as Anopheles albimanus. Clearly, enabling technologies and platforms that bridge this substantial scientific gap are required in order to provide public health scientists key transcriptomic and proteomic information that could spur the development of novel interventions to combat this disease. To our knowledge, no approaches have been published which address this issue. To bolster our understanding of P. vivax-An. albimanus midgut interactions, we developed an integrated bioinformatic-hybrid RNA-Seq-LC-MS/MS approach involving An. albimanus transcriptome (15,764 contigs) and luminal midgut subproteome (9,445 proteins) assembly, which, when used with our custom Diptera protein database (685,078 sequences), facilitated a comparative proteomic analysis of the midgut brush borders of two important malaria vectors, An. gambiae and An. albimanus. Summary from: http://www.mcponline.org/content/early/2012/10/17/mcp.M112.019596.long The An. albimanus transcriptome dataset is available at http://funcgen.vectorbase.org/RNAseq/Anopheles_albimanus/INSP/v2
Project description:Comparison of a pyrethroid insecticides resistant field population of Anopheles gambiae ss collected in Tiefora, Burkina Faso (2014) compared to a lab susceptible ss Anopheles gambiae Kisumu.
Project description:Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes of the M form N'gousso laboratory colony were antibiotic treated and subsequently orally infected with the Db11-GFP fluorescent strain of Serratia marcescens. Bacteria-fed mosquitoes were separated 2 days post infection based on the presence in the mosquito gut of a dye contained in the sugar solution. Mosquitoes were dissected 5 days post infection and the level of S. marcescens infection was determined through microscopic observation of mosquito guts under a fluorescence microscope. Highly infected mosquitoes, with an extensive presence of fluorescent S. marcescens throughout their gut and non-infected mosquitoes, with no sign of fluorescence traced in their gut, were further used for SNP genotyping. Genomic DNA from pools of 15 highly infected and 15 non-infected mosquitoes, in equimolar amounts, was hybridized in a customized Affymetrix 400k SNP genotyping arrays, interrogating genetic variation at ~400,000 variable positions in the An. gambiae genome, as determined by a previous sequencing effort of M/S An. gambiae molecular forms. Allele calls in both array hybridizations were used to determine the minor allele frequency difference for each individual SNP between the two phenotypic pools, which were subsequently used to determine loci associated with the outcome of S. marcescens infection.
Project description:We examined patterns of gene expression in two independent colonies of both M and S molecular forms of Anopheles gambiae at each of three developmental stages of interest: late larvae, sugar-fed virgin females, and gravid females. For each colony, replicates were derived from independent RNA samples extracted from different cohorts to ensure that trends were reproducible. In addition, each replicate was derived from larvae (adults) drawn from three pans (cages) to minimize the contribution of any individual pan to variation between samples. Data were obtained from a total of five biological replicates per mosquito colony.
Project description:Changes in gene expression in whole Anopheles gambiae female bodies between virgin mosquitoes and females samples at 2h, 6h, and 24h after mating.
Project description:we report the RNA-seq based analyses of the transcriptional changes in the Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes from East Africa classified as deltamethrin-resistant or -suscpetible accordign the WHO test
Project description:We characterize the epigenome of the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae in midgut cells by mapping the distribution and levels of two post-translational histone modifications, H3K27ac and H3K27me3. These histone profiles were then correlated with levels of gene expression obtained by RNA-seq. ChIP-seq and RNA-seq were performed on adult female A. gambiae midguts. RNA-seq was performed on adult female A. gambiae salivary glands.
