How do malaria mosquitoes swarm and mate? The functional biology of mating swarms Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Malaria mosquitoes are world’s deadliest creatures, and they infect >200 million people with malaria each year.However, we know surprisingly little about the mechanisms that underlie their fecundity. Mosquitoes mate in-flight in complex 3D swarms that consist of thousands of individuals of multiple sympatric species. It is thought that to avoid hybridization in such swarms, male and female conspecifics perform a mating dance by synchronizing ...