Culex mosquitoes
The Parity Rate of Indoor-Resting Adult Female Anopheles and Culex Mosquitoes and Their Implication in Disease Transmission in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Female Hostels Awka, South Eastern Nigeria
... and Culex mosquitoes and their implication in disease transmission was carried out in Nnamdi Azikiwe University female hostel between June and July ...The mosquitoes were sampled weekly from 24 ...
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RNA Splicing in a New Rhabdovirus from Culex Mosquitoes
... In this study, we characterized a new rhabdovirus from Culex mosquitoes that replicates in the nucleus of the host cell and requires RNA splicing for viral mRNA maturation. Apart from many eukaryotes, only ...
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Host feeding patterns of Culex mosquitoes in Iran
... Results: The source of blood meals for 580 blood-fed mosquito specimens of 20 different taxa were determined, resulting in the identification of 13 different host species (9 mammals including humans, 3 birds and 1 ...
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Sodium and chloride regulation in freshwater and osmoconforming larvae of Culex mosquitoes
... of mosquitoes that contain both freshwater and salt-tolerant species have been largely ...2000). Culex tarsalis can tolerate environmental salinities up to 70 % full-strength sea ...
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Culex pipiens and Culex restuans mosquitoes harbor distinct microbiota dominated by few bacterial taxa
... of Culex mosquitoes has been reported before ...all mosquitoes feed on plant sugars and each mosquito species may show preference for specific plants [72, ...
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Avian species diversity and transmission of West Nile virus in Atlanta, Georgia
... in Culex mosquitoes [34] and both passive dead bird surveillance and active live bird surveillance have also indicated yearly WNV infection among avian hosts in Atlanta at levels con- sistent with rates ...
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Both infected and uninfected mosquitoes are attracted toward malaria infected birds
... in mosquitoes? Plant-pathogen studies have gone very far in deciphering the underlying cues used by the vectors to choose between infected and uninfected ...the mosquitoes about the infection status and ...
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Comparison among Populations of Mosquitoes Culex quinquefasciatus Say by using Geometric Morphometric Technique from Different Regions of Iraq Sahar abd |Emad Ahmed
... Eleven of the first type landmark were used in this study: longitudinal veins with transversal veins; Numerous points were placed between these intersections by the COO (Collection of Coordinates) unit within the ...
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Genetic characterization of a novel picorna like virus in Culex spp mosquitoes from Mozambique
... in Culex mosquitoes that encoded a complete ORF (3112 aa), named Culex picorna-like virus ...both Culex and Mansonia individual pools with low infection ...from Culex spp. ...
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Effects of Organic Amendments on Microbiota Associated with the Culex nigripalpus Mosquito Vector of the Saint Louis Encephalitis and West Nile Viruses
... female mosquitoes and supports the production of Culex mosqui- toes for longer periods of time (9, 38, 43, ...by Culex mosquitoes occurred in all mesocosms ⬍ 24 h after uncovering the ...
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Maximising mosquito collections from barrier screens: the impacts of physical design and operation parameters
... collect mosquitoes. In general, mosquitoes prefer darker coloured substrates ...and mosquitoes made it easier to see resting mosquitoes and thus capture ...
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Enhancing attraction of the vector mosquito Aedes albopictus by using a novel synthetic odorant blend
... the mosquitoes captured in different arms of the olfactometer were compared using one-way ...female Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes collected in each trap as dependent variables and the attractants ...
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Patterns of phenoloxidase activity in insecticide resistant and susceptible mosquitoes differ between laboratory selected and wild caught individuals
... in mosquitoes that are resistant to insecticides through the overproduction of detoxifying enzymes, be- cause of the large amount of resources that need to be diverted for the large-scale production of the extra ...
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Detection of antibacterial protein in Bacillus sphaericus-treated Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae)
... The present study thus contradicts with that of Waterhouse et al. (2007) and Antonova et al. (2009) who concluded that the AMPs expressed in mosquitoes after immune challenge were mainly defensins and cecropins. ...
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Culex tarsalis is a competent vector species for Cache Valley virus
... in Culex spe- cies mosquitoes [2, ...in Culex species mosquitoes was caused by recent engorgement of blood from viremic vertebrate hosts, which can cause a transient presence of infectious ...
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The Salivary Adenosine Deaminase Activity of the Mosquitoes Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes aegypti
... 3–5 mosquitoes probing the membrane but, perhaps because of the absence of phagostimulation, individual mosquitoes probed the membrane for only 10–30 s and then ...100 mosquitoes probed the membrane ...
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Avian malaria alters the dynamics of blood feeding in Culex pipiens mosquitoes
... Malaria transmission is tied to the behaviour of its insect vectors [1–3]. Several studies have shown how Plasmo- dium parasites have evolved strategies to modify the for- aging and feeding behaviour of their mosquito ...
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Enhancing genome investigations in the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus via BAC library construction and characterization
... Detailed genetic and genomic studies among the Cx. pipiens complex could provide valuable insights into the molecular genetic mechanisms influencing important traits such as vector competence, insecticide resistance, and ...
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LARVICIDAL AND ADULT ATTRACTANT EFFICIENCY OF THE EDIBLE MUSHROOM PLEUROTUS PULMONARIUS ON AEDES AEGYPTI AND CULEX SITIENS (DIPTERA, CULICIDAE) MOSQUITOES
... and Culex sitiens Wiedemann of this ...sitiens mosquitoes, especially at the 10 mg/L concentration, but no significantly mosquitoes of both species were attracted by the extract compared to ...
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Differential effect of human ivermectin treatment on blood feeding Anopheles gambiae and Culex quinquefasciatus
... The study confirmed findings from previous studies, in that, at a dosage similar to that used in MDAs, iver- mectin considerably reduced the survival of blood feed- ing An. gambiae [4,7-12,20]. Thus, after 2 days nearly ...
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