Table 2 Mosquito species collected and screened for Wolbachia by qPCR of 16S rRNA gene and WSP
From: Wolbachia in mosquitoes from the Central Valley of California, USA
Mosquito species | Total trapped | Atwater | Ballico | Hilmar | Le Grand | Los Banos | Merced | Snelling | wspa | 16Sa | Totalb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ae. melanimon | 1827 | – | – | 5/26 | – | 1/20 | – | 0/9 | 4/55 | 5/55 | 6/55 (10.9%) |
Ae. nigromaculis | 12 | – | 0/1 | - | – | − 0/8 | 0/3 | – | – | – | 0/12 (0%) |
Ae. vexans | 488 | – | – | 2/36 | – | 0/16 | – | – | 0/52 | 2/52 | 2/52 (3.9%) |
Ae. aegypti | 60 | – | – | – | – | – | 0/60 | – | – | – | 0/60 (0%) |
Cx. pipiens | 994 | 5/5 | 15/15 | – | – | – | 10/10 | 1/7 | 31/37 | 31/37 | 31/37 (83.8%) |
Cx. stigmatosoma | 36 | 2/2 | 28/28 | – | – | – | 0/1 | 0/3 | 30/34 | 30/34 | 30/34 (88.2%) |
Cx. tarsalis | 3878 | – | 1/15 | – | 0/5 | – | 0/4 | 0/2 | 0/26 | 1/26 | 1/26 (3.9%) |
An. franciscanus | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0/2 | – | – | 0/2 (0%) |
An. freeborni | 221 | – | 0/29 | 0/1 | 0/22 | – | 0/1 | 0/7 | – | – | 0/60 (0%) |
An. punctipennis | 19 | – | – | – | – | 0/1 | – | 1/18 | 0/19 | 1/19 | 1/19 (5.3%) |
Culiseta incidens | 94 | – | – | – | 0/1 | – | 1/35 | 0/6 | 1/42 | 1/42 | 1/42 (2.4%) |
Total | 7150 | 7/7 | 44/88 | 7/63 | 0/28 | 1/45 | 11/114 | 3/60 | 67/406 | 72/406 | 73/406 |