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Florian Muijres has been awarded a prestigious grant to study what the mating dance of malaria mosquitoes in a swarm looks like. In this research, Muijres will collaborate with colleagues from the USA, Belgium and Burkina Faso. The study may offer a new possibility in the fight against malaria: preventing the mosquitoes from procreating. The Human Frontier Science Program has awarded a 400-thousand-euro annual grant for this three-year investigation.
The basics of how malaria mosquitoes mate is known: in complex swarms of thousands of males. Occasionally females will join the swam, and, after some time, a female may fly alongside a male. ‘In a swarm and during flight, the male and female will synchronise their wingbeat pattern’, Muijres says. ‘This synchronisation can be seen as a mating dance.’
8 January 2021
by: Adam D. Cohen
A research team based in the U.S. and Burkina Faso received last year’s Newcomb Cleveland Prize. | Neil Orman/AAAS
Since 2010, the global number of deaths from malaria has decreased by 28%, largely due to the application of DDT, pyrethroids, and other insecticides to bed nets and living spaces. Still, a child dies of malaria every two minutes, and with mosquito populations becoming increasingly resistant to insecticides, vulnerable communities are in urgent need of new solutions.
Each year since 1923, the Newcomb Cleveland Prize, presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has honored the most impactful research paper published in the journal