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. 2020 Oct 13;7(1):342.
doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-00687-9.

A dataset of distribution and diversity of mosquito-associated viruses and their mosquito vectors in China

Evans Atoni  1   2 , Lu Zhao  1   2 , Cheng Hu  3 , Nanjie Ren  1   2 , Xiaoyu Wang  1   2 , Mengying Liang  1   2 , Caroline Mwaliko  1   2 , Zhiming Yuan  4   5 , Han Xia  6   7
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A dataset of distribution and diversity of mosquito-associated viruses and their mosquito vectors in China

Evans Atoni et al. Sci Data. .

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Abstract

Mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika virus, Japanese Encephalitis virus and Dengue virus present an increasing global health concern. However, in-depth knowledge of the distribution and diversity of mosquito-associated viruses and their related vectors remains limited, especially for China. To promote their understanding, we present the first comprehensive dataset of the distribution and diversity of these viruses and their related vectors in China (including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau). Data was drawn from peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and thesis publications in both English and Chinese. Geographical data on mosquito-associated viruses' occurrence and related mosquito vector species was extracted, and quality-control processes employed. This dataset contains 2,428 accounts of mosquito-associated viruses' and mosquito species geo-referenced occurrences at various administrative levels in China. The prevalent mosquito-associated virus includes Japanese encephalitis virus, Dengue virus, Banna virus and Culex flavivirus, whereas the abundant mosquito vectors are Culex tritaeryohynchus, Aedes albopictus and Culex pipiens pallens. This geographical dataset delivers a distribution and diversity outline of mosquito-associated viruses in China, and also applicable in various spatial and risk-assessment analysis.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Fig. 1
Systematic literature review flow chart of the search strategy and results.
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Fig. 2
The distribution and diversity of mosquito-associated viruses and the related mosquito genus across the various regions in China. The heatmap indicates the viral family abundance in different regions while the barplot indicates the mosquito genus in the different regions.
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Fig. 3
Records of different mosquito vector species across various regions in China. The size of red dot indicates the number of records.
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Fig. 4
Records of different mosquito associated viruses across various regions in China. The size of red dot indicates the number of records.
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Fig. 5
Distribution and density of mosquito-associated viruses by time and climatic zones in China. (a) The distribution density of mosquito- associated viruses in different provincial-level divisions of China in different time periods. (b) Geo-location distribution of three classes of mosquito-associated viruses based on the climatic regions of China.
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