日時
2023年7月13日(木)16:00 - 17:00 (JST)
講演者
  • 桑野 友輔 (総合研究大学院大学 博士課程)
会場
  • via Zoom
言語
英語
ホスト
Gen Kurosawa

Mosquitoes are important insect vectors of infectious diseases in humans, and knowledge of their population dynamics is pivotal in disease control. Some mosquito species have dormancy in their life history to survive harsh environments. However, the population dynamics of mosquitoes have not yet been well understood due to the lack of field and experimental data on dormancy. For that reason, I modeled the population dynamics of mosquitoes that face environmental fluctuations and examine the evolution of egg dormancy strategy to survive harsh periods. I found that the ESS dormancy fraction monotonically increases with the period of environmental fluctuation. Next, I analyzed evolutionary traits of the dependence of the dormancy rate and the hatching rate from dormant egg on soil moisture content and conducted evolutionary simulations using actual weather measurement in Tokyo. The results of the hatching rate from dormant egg showed that two mosquito phenotypes having distinctly different responses to soil moisture were selected.

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