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Environmental Control of Ovarian Development in Mosquitoes of the Culex pipiens Complex

Gonotrophic dissociation, a condition in which the ovaries remain undeveloped in female mosquitoes that have taken a full blood meal, occurs in Culex pipiens L., when incubated at low temperature (10° ... read more

Control of mosquito-borne diseases

By sequencing and studying all DNA present in the ovaries of Culex pipiens ... its host mosquito, as well as its role in pathogen transmission. This research, published in Nature Communications, ... read more

Hybrid Forms of the Common House Mosquito May Serve as Vectors Between Birds and Humans

The northern house mosquito Culex pipiens, representing more than 90 percent of the total catch, was the most abundant. Culex pipiens comprises a complex of ecologically different forms that are ... read more

Climate, genetics can affect how long virus-carrying mosquitoes live

Half of each of the mosquito colonies was fed West Nile virus-infected blood, the other half kept as a control population ... challenged Southern house mosquitoes, Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus, in ... read more

Microbiota variations in Culex nigripalpus disease vector mosquito of West Nile virus and Saint Louis Encephalitis from different geographic origins

Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL license (http://maps.stamen.com). Map generated with QGIS v3.2.3-Bonn (QGIS Development Team, 2018). Together, 16 mosquito samples, including four from the Vero Beach ... read more

Modeling the transmission and control of Zika in Brazil

Controlling of vector mosquitoes remains ... excessively expensive and environmental undesirable, moreover, it leads to insecticide resistance 15. Therefore, it is very important to search for novel ... read more

Mosquito egg hunt: Many Culex species prefer alternatives to standing water

The findings run counter to scientific generalizations about the mosquitoes' egg-laying habits and may complicate the work of researchers and mosquito control professionals ... egg hunt: Many Culex ... read more

Effects of ultraviolet radiation on metabolic rate and fitness of Aedes albopictus and Culex pipiens mosquitoes

For each vial, proportion survivorship to adulthood, mean development time, and mean wing length were calculated. Least squares means (±SE) for metabolic rate expressed as heat production (µW/ml) of ... read more

Mosquito ecology and disease at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting

Are efforts to control mosquito breeding sites more ... Ft Lauderdale Convention Center Brittany Harris, Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL As an example of the costs ... read more

Evolution of sexually-transferred steroids and mating-induced phenotypes in Anopheles mosquitoes

In female mosquitoes, each ovary is composed of ... After blood meal ingestion, ovarian steroids trigger vitellogenesis of the primary follicles and egg development as well as the detachment from the ... read more

A new way to thwart disease-spreading mosquitoes

"The spread of blood-borne diseases by mosquitoes relies on their taking a blood meal; if there is no bite, there is no disease transmission," said researcher John Colbourne, chairman of environmental ... read more