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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

Usutu, an African virus under surveillance in Europe

Researchers from CIRAD have detected Usutu virus in Camargue, in mosquitoes of the species Culex pipiens (photo ... its vectors, and the environment. This research is being conducted in collaboration ... read more

Tracking the genetic arms race between humans and mosquitoes

Anopheles gambiae mosquito, feeding on blood. Credit: James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Every time you put on bug spray this summer, you're launching a strike in the ongoing wa... read more

Buttery perfume deters mosquitoes by overloading their sense of smell

Every time you exhale, you send out a beacon to hungry mosquitoes. These vampires follow their noses. They’re exquisitely sensitive to carbon dioxide in the air, and can follow faint traces over long ... read more

The New York Times

For insecticide resistance genes and their costs in mosquitoes, see Lenormand, T., Bourguet, D., Guillemaud, T., and Raymond, M. 1999. “Tracking the evolution of insecticide resistance in the mosquito ... 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 r... read more

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

West Nile virus encephalitis may be suspected on the basis of ... 96 With regard to WNV, an important focus of prevention is environmental control of mosquito vectors. These measures include removal o... read more

Ecological Niche Modeling for Filoviruses: A Risk Map for Ebola and Marburg Virus Disease Outbreaks in Uganda

Ecological Niche Modeling for Filoviruses: A Risk Map for Ebola and Marburg Virus ... modeling approach that uses presence-only data was used to establish filovirus – environmental relationships. Pres... read more

Malaria parasites sense and react to mosquito presence to increase transmission

The abundance of vectors (as the transmitting insects are called) depends on seasonal and other environmental fluctuations ... and its natural vector, a mosquito called Culex pipiens. They infected do... read more

History restricts and guides the evolution of innovations

When it comes to evolution, a species’ past has a massive bearing on what it might become. That’s the latest message from a 20-year-long experiment in evolution, which shows how small twists of fate c... read more