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Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology

10-Minute Paper

MUVE: Mosquito and Other Fly Vectors Ecology and Behavior On-Demand Presentations

A macroevolutionary view of host preference in mosquitoes

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The necessity of many mosquito species to feed from the blood of vertebrate hosts for egg production, thus exposing host and vector to potential pathogens, has caused significant interest in the evolution of host preference.  Most of these analyses have focused on the evolution of host preference within a single population or species.  Here, utilizing the most complete phylogenetic analysis of mosquitoes to date, we evaluate the evolution of blood host preference in mosquitoes in a macroevolutionary framework, leveraging phylogenetic comparative methods to describe the evolution of blood host preference across 180 million years of mosquito evolution.