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Lipid Utilization for Ovarian Development in an Autogenous Mosquito, Culex pipiens molestus (Diptera: Culicidae)

During the first ovarian cycle, autogenous female mosquitoes develop their ovaries in the absence of blood feeding. In autogenous Culex pipiens molestus ... 1965), and lipid utilization for ovarian ... read more

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

Zika Not Transmitted by Culex Species Mosquitoes

“It enables people to target their control strategies so that they aren't wasting time and effort on a mosquito that isn't transmitting Zika virus.” Before the current study, Culex mosquitoes' role in ... 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

Hybrid forms of the common house mosquito may serve as vectors between birds, humans

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

Studies on the Follicular Development and Overwintering of the House Mosquito, Culex pipiens pallens in Nagasaki Area

The females of the house mosquito, Culex pipiens pallens, are gonoactive in summer and have ... all of them move out from the shelter with the further progress in follicular development by the end of ... read more

New class of insect repellents to fight against mosquito-borne diseases

Today, researchers report a new class of mosquito repellents based on naturally occurring compounds that are effective in repelling mosquitoes with potentially fewer environmental side ... repellents ... read more

A Mosquito Bites Back

Those of us who live in temperate climes deal with the mosquito as an annoyance, although the bother would be nearly unbearable were it not for prodigious amounts of mosquito control ... and the ... read more

Effects of landscape anthropization on mosquito community composition and abundance

We collected 340 829 female mosquitoes ... Development Core Team 2005) using the vegan, lme4, car, arm, MuMIn, randomForest and VSURF packages. Mosquito trapping was carried out with all the necessary ... read more

Tracking genetic arms race between humans, mosquitoes

The scientists hope that the knowledge will help inform strategies to control mosquito populations. C. pipiens, for example ... (2015, June 25). Tracking genetic arms race between humans, mosquitoes: ... read more