Illustration

Scientific art

Engaging illustrations to support research, educate, and bring scientific concepts to life.

An illustration of an Aedes albopictus mosquito, orange colored viruses and the sun with a thermomether. The three elements are interacting. Blurry green vegetation can be seen in the background.

Banner for the Behind the Paper article "Warmer sicker? Or warmer stronger?: How climate change shapes mosquito immunity". The aim was to highlight how mosquito-virus interactions are influenced by temperature. Read it here.

An illustrated diagram with three panels. The color of the panels (blue, pink, and red). Each panel has a thermometer on the left, indicating the temperature. The blue one is the lowest, the pink one is higher for one generation, and the red one is as high as pink, but for 10 generations. All panels have an Aedes albopictus mosquito ingesting an orange virus, followed by an arrow. The blue panel ends with a dark mosquito, lots of virus and a few larvae. The pink panel ends with a lighter mosquito, with few virus and more larvae. The red panel ends with the lightest mosquito, a lot of virus (as in blue) and a few larvae (as in pink).

Schematic results for "Warmer sicker? Or warmer stronger?: How climate change shapes mosquito immunity. The darkness of the mosquitoes denotes their age: as they get older their colour fades.

An illustration showing how a mosquito is able to transmit a virus. It shows a cross section of a mosquito body with it's digestive system and salivary glands. The mosquito is feeding on a human. Boxes zoom in to each organ to show what happens at every step. Once the mosquito acquires the virus from its bloodmeal, the virus reaches the midgut. Then, it crosses the midgut, disseminates thorugh the mosquito's body, reaches the salivary glands and crosses the salivary gland barrier, where it is ready to be transmitted again.

The steps involved in the successful transmission of an arbovirus by a mosquito for our paper "Not all mosquitoes are created equal: A synthesis of vector competence experiments reinforces virus associations of Australian mosquitoes" published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Read it here.

An illustration of a texturized pink stomach with red veins.. The color is soft.

Simplified stomach study. Unpublished.

An illustration showing the life cycle of a mosquito. An adult mosquito lays eggs in water, a larva emerges before turning into a pupa, from which an adult mosquito emerges. Red arrows indicate that this process is a cycle.

The lifecycle of a mosquito, from Grandmother Mosquito (2022) published by the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District.

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