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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

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

Next-gen insect repellents to combat mosquito-borne diseases

Anopheles gambiae mosquito, feeding on blood. Credit: James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nearly 700 million ... effective in repelling mosquitoes with potentially fewer environm... 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

Wolbachia variability and host effects on crossing type in Culex mosquitoes

Peter Medawar Building and Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK NERC Centre for ... read more

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

Methods: The MaxEnt software, a machine learning modeling approach that uses presence-only data was used to establish filovirus – environmental relationships. Presence-only data for filovirus outbreak... read more

Effects of weather factors on dengue fever incidence and implications for interventions in Cambodia

Dengue viruses and their mosquito ... enable dengue control measures to be better targeted, timed and implemented. Global trends of unplanned urbanization; rising populations; increasing travel and tr... 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

Forensic scientists recover human DNA from mosquitos

Stereomicroscopic images of two mosquito species at taken at different times after feeding on human blood. The upper and lower images respectively show Culex pipiens pallens and Aedes albopictus at di... read more

Evolution of life in urban environments

Urbanization results in dramatic environmental change, including increased temperatures ... For example, human pests frequently adapt to pesticides and evade control efforts because of our limited und... 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