The effects of mosquito transmission and population bottlenecking on virulence, multiplication rate and rosetting in rodent malaria.
Malaria parasites vary in virulence, but the effects of mosquito transmission on virulence phenotypes have not been systematically analysed. Using six lines of malaria parasite that varied widely in virulence, three of which had been serially blood-stage passaged many times, we found that mosquito t...
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| description | Malaria parasites vary in virulence, but the effects of mosquito transmission on virulence phenotypes have not been systematically analysed. Using six lines of malaria parasite that varied widely in virulence, three of which had been serially blood-stage passaged many times, we found that mosquito transmission led to a general reduction in malaria virulence. Despite that, the between-line variation in virulence remained. Forcing serially passaged lines through extreme population bottlenecks (<5 parasites) reduced virulence in only one of two lines. That reduction was to a level intermediate between that of the virulent parental and avirulent ancestral line. Mosquito transmission did not reverse the increased parasite replication rates that had accrued during serial passage, but it did increase rosetting frequencies. Re-setting of asexual stage genes during the sexual stages of the life cycle, coupled with stochastic sampling of parasites with variable virulence during population bottlenecks, could account for the virulence reductions and increased rosetting induced by mosquito transmission. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a7e1bb2a-5260-4fdb-94db-9fd25be35cc22022-03-27T02:57:29ZThe effects of mosquito transmission and population bottlenecking on virulence, multiplication rate and rosetting in rodent malaria.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a7e1bb2a-5260-4fdb-94db-9fd25be35cc2EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2005Mackinnon, MBell, ARead, AMalaria parasites vary in virulence, but the effects of mosquito transmission on virulence phenotypes have not been systematically analysed. Using six lines of malaria parasite that varied widely in virulence, three of which had been serially blood-stage passaged many times, we found that mosquito transmission led to a general reduction in malaria virulence. Despite that, the between-line variation in virulence remained. Forcing serially passaged lines through extreme population bottlenecks (<5 parasites) reduced virulence in only one of two lines. That reduction was to a level intermediate between that of the virulent parental and avirulent ancestral line. Mosquito transmission did not reverse the increased parasite replication rates that had accrued during serial passage, but it did increase rosetting frequencies. Re-setting of asexual stage genes during the sexual stages of the life cycle, coupled with stochastic sampling of parasites with variable virulence during population bottlenecks, could account for the virulence reductions and increased rosetting induced by mosquito transmission. |
| spellingShingle | Mackinnon, M Bell, A Read, A The effects of mosquito transmission and population bottlenecking on virulence, multiplication rate and rosetting in rodent malaria. |
| title | The effects of mosquito transmission and population bottlenecking on virulence, multiplication rate and rosetting in rodent malaria. |
| title_full | The effects of mosquito transmission and population bottlenecking on virulence, multiplication rate and rosetting in rodent malaria. |
| title_fullStr | The effects of mosquito transmission and population bottlenecking on virulence, multiplication rate and rosetting in rodent malaria. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of mosquito transmission and population bottlenecking on virulence, multiplication rate and rosetting in rodent malaria. |
| title_short | The effects of mosquito transmission and population bottlenecking on virulence, multiplication rate and rosetting in rodent malaria. |
| title_sort | effects of mosquito transmission and population bottlenecking on virulence multiplication rate and rosetting in rodent malaria |
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