Predicting mosquito flight behavior using Bayesian dynamical systems learning
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| author | Zuo, Christopher Fei, Chenyi Cohen, Alexander E. Kim, Soohwan Carde, Ring T. Dunkel, Jörn Hu, David L. |
| author_facet | Zuo, Christopher Fei, Chenyi Cohen, Alexander E. Kim, Soohwan Carde, Ring T. Dunkel, Jörn Hu, David L. |
| contents | Mosquito-borne diseases cause several hundred thousand deaths every year. Deciphering mosquito host-seeking behavior is essential to prevent disease transmission through mosquito capture and surveillance. Despite recent substantial progress, we currently lack a comprehensive quantitative understanding of how visual and other sensory cues guide mosquitoes to their targets. Here, we combined 3D infrared tracking of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with Bayesian dynamical systems inference to learn a quantitative biophysical model of mosquito host-seeking behavior. Trained on more than 20,000,000 data points from mosquito free-flight trajectories recorded in the presence of visual and carbon dioxide cues, the model accurately predicts how mosquitoes respond to human targets. Our results provide a quantitative foundation for optimizing mosquito capture and control strategies, a key step towards mitigating the impact of mosquito-borne diseases. |
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| spellingShingle | Predicting mosquito flight behavior using Bayesian dynamical systems learning Zuo, Christopher Fei, Chenyi Cohen, Alexander E. Kim, Soohwan Carde, Ring T. Dunkel, Jörn Hu, David L. Biological Physics Mosquito-borne diseases cause several hundred thousand deaths every year. Deciphering mosquito host-seeking behavior is essential to prevent disease transmission through mosquito capture and surveillance. Despite recent substantial progress, we currently lack a comprehensive quantitative understanding of how visual and other sensory cues guide mosquitoes to their targets. Here, we combined 3D infrared tracking of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with Bayesian dynamical systems inference to learn a quantitative biophysical model of mosquito host-seeking behavior. Trained on more than 20,000,000 data points from mosquito free-flight trajectories recorded in the presence of visual and carbon dioxide cues, the model accurately predicts how mosquitoes respond to human targets. Our results provide a quantitative foundation for optimizing mosquito capture and control strategies, a key step towards mitigating the impact of mosquito-borne diseases. |
| title | Predicting mosquito flight behavior using Bayesian dynamical systems learning |
| topic | Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13615 |