Abstract
The Aedes aegypti mosquito plays an important role in the spread of diseases, including epidemic ones, such as dengue fever, Zika virus disease, yellow fever, and chikungunya disease. To control the population of Ae.aegypti, we transferred an HR3 RNAi fragment into the microalgae Chlamydomonas, which serves as food for Ae.aegypti larvae. Results showed that the HR3 RNAi transgenic algal strains were lethal to Ae.aegypti. The integumentary system of larvae fed with HR3 RNAi transgenic algal strains was severely damaged. Muscles of the larvae were unevenly distributed and disordered, and their midgut showed disintegration of the intestinal cavity. RNA-Seq results demonstrated that on the 4th day of inoculation with the transgenic algae, the abundance of early expressed genes in the 20E signal transduction pathway of larvae fed with the HR3 RNAi transgenic algal strain significantly reduced. These genes include E74, E75, E93, and 20E receptor complex EcR/USP and FTZ-F1 gene regulated by HR3. In later experiments, a scale test of 300 Ae.aegypti eggs per group was carried out for 30 days, and the survival rate of Ae.aegypti fed with the HR3 RNAi transgenic strain was only 1.3%. These results indicate that the HR3 RNAi transgenic strain exerts obvious insecticidal effect.
Highlights
Aedes plays an important role in the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases
Based on preliminary feeding experiments, we found that the larvae of Ae.aegypti and A. albopictus can feed on Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Chlorella, and Scenedesmus
Mega6 cluster analysis showed that the hormone receptor 3 (HR3) protein sequence of Ae.aegypti has the highest homology (99%) with A. albopictus (XP_019549827), followed by Anopheles sinensis (KFB44899), Papilio machaon (XP_014364014), and Papilio polytes (XP_013136657)
Summary
Aedes plays an important role in the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases. Among the world’s major epidemic mosquito-borne diseases, the most serious ones are dengue fever, Zika virus disease, yellow fever, and chikungunya disease, all of which are transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. According to WHO statistics, about half of people worldwide are infected with these mosquito-borne diseases every year [1]. Since 2007, local transmission of dengue fever has been reported in 128 countries and regions in Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania. In China, the incidence of dengue fever is severe in China’s Guangdong, Yunnan, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, and Taiwan provinces. Statistical analysis of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention revealed 4662 cases of dengue fever in China in 2013, and the highest
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