# Disease Vector **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Type:** Epidemiological concept **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Definition A **disease vector** is an organism that carries and transmits a pathogen between hosts. ## Relationships - [[wiki/Aedes aegypti|Aedes aegypti]] is studied as a disease-vector species. - Its whole-brain connectome project extends connectomic methods into a species whose sensory and behavioral circuits are relevant to disease transmission. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **FlyWire: Whole-Brain Completeness at Insect Scale** provides the narrative context for **Disease Vector**: In May 2025, Jefferis and Elizabeth Marin secured a Wellcome Discovery Award to produce 'A whole-brain connectome of the female Aedes aegypti mosquito,' in collaboration with Wei-Chung Allen Lee (Harvard Medical School) and Meg… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->