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Data from: Escaping blood-fed malaria mosquitoes minimize tactile detection without compromising on take-off speed
| العنوان: | Data from: Escaping blood-fed malaria mosquitoes minimize tactile detection without compromising on take-off speed |
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| المؤلفون: | Muijres, F.T., Chang, S.W., van Veen, W.G., Spitzen, J., Biemans, Bart, Koehl, M.A.R., Dudley, R. |
| بيانات النشر: | Wageningen University & Research 2017 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | To escape after taking a blood meal, a mosquito must exert forces sufficiently high to take off when carrying a load roughly equal to its body weight, while simultaneously avoiding detection by minimizing tactile signals exerted on the host's skin. We studied this trade-off between escape speed and stealth in malaria mosquitoes, Anopheles coluzzii, using 3D motion analysis of high-speed stereoscopic videos of mosquito take-offs and aerodynamic modelling. We found that during the push-off phase, mosquitoes enhanced take-off speed by using aerodynamic forces generated by the beating wings in addition to leg-based push-off forces, whereby wing forces contributed 61% to the total push-off force. Exchanging leg-derived push-off forces for wing-derived aerodynamic forces allows the animal to reduce peak force production on the host's skin. By slowly extending their long legs throughout the push-off, mosquitoes spread push-off forces over a longer time window than insects with short legs, thereby further reducing peak leg forces. Using this specialized take-off behavior, mosquitoes are capable of reaching take-off speeds comparable to those of similarly-sized fruit flies, but with weight-normalized peak leg forces that were only 27% of those of the fruit flies. By limiting peak leg forces, mosquitoes possibly reduce the chance of being detected by the host. The resulting combination of high take-off speed and low tactile signals on the host might help increase the mosquito's success to escape from blood-hosts, which consequently also increases the chance that they transmit vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, to future hosts. |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Anopheles coluzzii, aerodynamics, biomechanics, flight behaviour, insect, malaria mosquito, muscle morphology, take-off maneuvers, wingbeat kinematics, Dataset |
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| أرقام أخرى: | NLWUP oai:library.wur.nl:wurpubs/534626 https://research.wur.nl/en/datasets/data-from-escaping-blood-fed-malaria-mosquitoes-minimize-tactile- 10.5061/dryad.1b312 1200324775 |
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