Inter-species microbiota transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition and persistence in mosquitoes

Mosquitoes harbor microbial communities that play important roles in their growth, survival, reproduction, and ability to transmit human pathogens. Microbiome transplantation approaches are often used to study host-microbe interactions and identify microbial taxa and assemblages associated with health or disease. However, no such approaches have been developed to manipulate the microbiota of mosquitoes. In this study, we developed an approach to transfer entire microbial communities between mosquito cohorts.