{"doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-3286696/v1","title":"The Role of Car Tyres in the Ecology of Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes in Ghana","abstract":"<title>Abstract</title>\n        <p><bold>Background</bold>\nThe <italic>Aedes</italic> <italic>aegypti</italic>mosquito is an important vector of arboviral diseases including dengue and yellow fever. Despite the wide distribution of the <italic>Aedes</italic> <italic>aegypti</italic> mosquito, there is limited data on the ecology of <italic>Aedes</italic> <italic>aegypti</italic> mosquitoes in Ghana. In this study, we report on the oviposition preference and the larval life table of <italic>Aedes aegypti</italic> mosquitoes in Accra, Ghana.\n<bold>Methods</bold>\nThe oviposition preference of <italic>Aedes</italic>mosquitoes to three habitat types (tyres, drums and bowls) was measured by setting up ovitraps. Ovitraps were checked for the presence of <italic>Aedes</italic> larvae every 3 days. The presence and number of larvae were recorded for each habitat type. Two-hour-old <italic>Aedes aegypti</italic> larvae were introduced into and raised in these three habitat types to undertake larval life tables. The number of surviving larvae at each developmental stage was recorded daily until they emerge as adults.\n<bold>Results</bold>\nCar tyres showed a high abundance of <italic>Aedes</italic>larvae (52.33%) than drums (32.49%) and bowls (15.18%) (ANOVA, <italic>F </italic>_ 18.79, <italic>df</italic> _ 2, 159, <italic>P </italic>&lt; 0.001). The mean development time of <italic>Ae. aegypti </italic>larvae was significantly lower in car tyres (7 ± 1 days) compared to that of bowls (9 ± 0.0 days) and drums (12.6 ± 1.5 days) (H (2) = 7.448, <italic>P </italic>= 0.024). The differences in pupation rates and emergence rates were not significant across the habitat types, however, the highest pupation rate was observed in bowls (0.92) and the emergence rate was highest in tyres (0.84). The proportion of first-instar larvae that survived to adults was significantly higher in tyres with a shorter survival time (0.84; 9 days) compared to that of bowls (0.72; 10 days) and drums (0.62 ± 0.2; 13 days) (H (2) = 2.822, <italic>P</italic>= 0.009).\n<bold>Conclusion</bold>\nThe results confirm that discarded car tyres were the preferred habitat choice for the oviposition of gravid female <italic>Aedes</italic> <italic>aegypti</italic> mosquitoes and provide the best habitat condition for larval development and survival. These findings are necessary for understanding the ecology of <italic>Aedes</italic> mosquitoes to develop appropriate strategies for their control in Ghana.</p>","journal":null,"year":null,"id":42503,"datarank":0.2314933036836374,"base_score":1.0986122886681096,"endowment":1.0986122886681096,"self_citation_contribution":0.16479184330021646,"citation_network_contribution":0.06670146038342095,"self_endowment_contribution":0.16479184330021646,"citer_contribution":0.06670146038342095,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":2,"citers_with_citation_signal":2,"citers_with_endowment":2,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":203334,"name":"Christopher Mfum Owusu-Asenso","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":203335,"name":"Christodea Haizel","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":203336,"name":"Sebastian Kow Egyin Mensah","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":203337,"name":"Isaac Kwame Sr","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":203338,"name":"Abdul Rahim Mohammed","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":203339,"name":"Yaw Akuamoah-Boateng","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":203340,"name":"Akua Obeng Forson","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":203341,"name":"Yaw A. 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