Background
Results
Pertinant to Class
Test Review
100
Dengue fever
a virus-based disease spread by mosquitoes
100
What bacterial infection of insects was used for dengue control?
Wolbachia infection
100
How was the Mosquito's fitness tested for the wMEl strain?
Larval development time
100
Gradual diversification of species potentially into new species through a mechanism of natural selection
Descent with Modification
200
How does Wolbachia invade the host?
Cytoplamic incapability
200
A. aegypti embryos microinjection
How was Wolbachia transmitted into the mosquito's cell?
200
What did the semi-field cage system show?
Rapid invasion from relatively small numbers is possible
200
Hierchial organization suggest...?
common ancestor
300
the mosquito that spread dengue fever
Aedes aegypti
300
What induces cytoplasmic incapability in A. aegypti?
wMelPop-CLA infection
300
Why would increased fitness for the infected mosquitoes be beneficial?
The increased fitness would allow the virus resistant mosquitoes to "replace" the naturally occurring wild-type mosquitoes.
300
Hox gene is shared by which organisms?
Chicken and snakes
400
Dengue haemorrhagic fever, rash, nausea, vomiting
The symptoms of dengue fever
400
What is advantage of a sucessful mosquito trasmission of Wolbachia?
Human resistance to Dengue fever
400
If their was complete resistance towards Dengue fever which part of the equation learned in class would increase?
The denominator ( (Death)*(alpha)*(V))
400
Which information do each of the following trees provide: cladogram, phylogram, and nice-looking tree
Cladogram: branching pattern and order of descendants Phylogram: Branch length indicates the level of divergence Nice-looking tree: information on timing and ecology
500
How many cases are reported for dengue fevere each year?
more than 50 million
500
What type of females had the highest materanl transmission rate of 1.0?
MGYP2.OUT females
500
Name the 4 ways we discussed in class parasites "increase their fitness"?
1- get to as many hosts 2-overcome defenses 3-maximize reproduction 4- transmit to new host
500
Darwin's Four Postulates
1) Struggle for existence 2) Individuals in species vary 3) Some variation is heritable 4) Natural Selection
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