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  1. Sep 2025
    1. We use a genetic algorithm, Genetic Algorithm for Rule SetProduction (GARP), to determine the ecological niche of Ae. albopictus and predict a globalecological risk map for the continued spread of the species.

      method: using genetic algorthms to predict where specifically the ATM can spread

    1. is likely to spread increasingly northward and through Western Europe as climate change expands the Asian tiger mosquito's habitat.

      important intersectionalisty with climate change

    2. Dengue fever,

      some UN facts: Dengue is a viral infection caused by the dengue virus (DENV), which is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes. About half of the world's population is now at risk of dengue, with an estimated 100–400 million infections occurring each year. Dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates worldwide, mostly in urban and semi-urban areas. While many DENV infections are asymptomatic or produce only mild illness, DENV can occasionally cause more severe cases, and even death. Prevention and control of dengue rely on vector control. There is no specific treatment for dengue/severe dengue, and early detection and access to proper medical care greatly lower fatality rates of severe dengue.

    1. a loss in the expression of diapause as the species spread into sub-tropical Florida.

      delaying egg development not as nevessary bc they will survuve just fine

    2. Diapause incidence was significantly lower in range-core versus range-edge populations (coefficient = 0.72; p < .001),

      bc they didnt need to adjust?

    3. To establish subsequent generations, we hatched eggs by submersing egg papers in a solution of 0.35g/L DifocoTM Nutrient Broth (Becton, Dickinson and Company) in deionized water and provided hatched larvae with ad libitum access to bovine liver powder (MP Biomedicals) as a food source. We provided adults a 20% sucrose solution and allowed them to bloodfeed twice daily on defibrinated bovine blood (Hemotek Laboratories) secured inside hog casing, warmed in a 70°C water bath and placed on the top of the mesh top of the colony cage for feeding.

      how they were fed during experiment

    4. By exposing diapause-induced eggs from both regions to range-core and range-edge winters, we were able to evaluate whether this species is broadly adapted to winter or if northern populations are adapted to northern winters.

      method

    5. resident genotypes should have higher relative fitness than immigrant genotypes, thus limiting the establishment of immigrant genotypes and potentially hindering continued immigration into locally adapted demes

      measures that combat against invasiveness