Culex-pipiens
Noncoding Subgenomic Flavivirus RNA Is Processed by the Mosquito RNA Interference Machinery and Determines West Nile Virus Transmission by Culex pipiens Mosquitoes
... Understanding the flavivirus transmission cycle is important to identify novel targets to interfere with disease and to aid devel- opment of virus control strategies. Flaviviruses produce an abundant noncoding viral RNA ...
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Sporogony and sporozoite rates of avian malaria parasites in wild Culex pipiens pallens and C inatomii in Japan
... The aim of this study was to use this combined ap- proach to definitively establish whether Culex pipiens pallens and C. inatomii are competent vectors for avian malaria. Although these mosquitoes have been ...
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Ecological characterization and molecular differentiation of Culex pipiens complex taxa and Culex torrentium in eastern Austria
... the Culex (Culex) pipiens complex are hardly distinguishable due to their morphological similarity, but differ extensively in behaviour, physiology and host ...Cx. pipiens pallens Coquillet, ...
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Comparative study of the effect of Bacillus thuringiensis on larval populations of Culex pipiens L (Diptera Culicidae) of the City of Tlemcen (Algeria)
... Algeria, Culex pipiens ...of Culex pipiens which have proved heterogeneous in partial tolerance in Bacillus thuringiensis for the populations of the sensitive artificial and homo- geneous the ...
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First report of L1014F kdr mutation in Culex pipiens complex from Morocco
... Culex pipiens includes two forms, pipiens and moles- tus , which are morphologically identical but genetically ...differences. Pipiens form is anauto- genous (needs a blood meal for eggs ...
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The distribution of potential West Nile virus vectors, Culex pipiens pipiens and Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae), in Mexico City
... America, Culex pipiens pipiens, Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus, and Culex tarsalis are all competent vectors of WNV, which is considered to be enzootic in the United States and ...
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High genetic diversity in the Culex pipiens complex from a West Nile Virus epidemic area in Southern Europe
... Cx. pipiens complex along the last part of the Po River using both mitochondrial and nuclear ...of Culex mosquitoes and to identify possible cryptic taxa, we analyzed the acetylcholinesterase-2 gene ...
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Insecticide resistance to organophosphates in Culex pipiens complex from Lebanon
... in Culex pipiens, and F331W found only in Culex tritaenior- hynchus, (numbered according to Torpedo californica ace [18]), which independently render the enzyme less sensi- tive to OP ...
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Repeated bouts of dehydration deplete nutrient reserves and reduce egg production in the mosquito Culex pipiens
... mosquito, Culex pipiens , we examined the impact of multiple bouts of dehydration and rehydration on survival, depletion of metabolic reserves and egg production in both non-diapausing and diapausing .... ...
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Experimental host preference of diapause and non diapause induced Culex pipiens pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae)
... p. pipiens, regardless of the environmental ...p. pipiens emerging from dia- pause and evaluate ecological and biological factors that may influence host selection and thus disease ...
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Enhancing genome investigations in the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus via BAC library construction and characterization
... Findings: We constructed a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library using the pIndigoBAC536 vector and HindIII partially digested DNA isolated from Cx. quinquefasciatus pupae, Johannesburg strain (NDJ). Insert size ...
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mosGCTL-7, a C-Type Lectin Protein, Mediates Japanese Encephalitis Virus Infection in Mosquitoes
... IMPORTANCE Japanese encephalitis virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus and is the primary cause of viral encephalitis in the Asia-Pacific region. Twenty-four countries in the WHO Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions ...
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Vector competence of northern European Culex pipiens biotypes and hybrids for West Nile virus is differentially affected by temperature
... Cx. pipiens biotypes and hybrids, after 14 days of incubation at 18, 23 and 28 ...biotype pipiens and hybrids showed significantly increased transmission rates with higher temperatures, up to 32 and 14 %, ...
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Modeling the distribution of the West Nile and Rift Valley Fever vector Culex pipiens in arid and semi arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa
... Cx. pipiens occurrence, and recent positive vector surveys, or outbreaks of vector-associated ...Cx. pipiens presence, corresponded to the areas of highest incidence of West Nile virus dur- ing the 2000 ...
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Do mosquitoes transmit the avian malaria like parasite Haemoproteus? An experimental test of vector competence using mosquito saliva
... Culex pipiens larvae were collected in La Cañada de los Pájaros, a natural reserve near Seville, Spain (6°14′W, 36°57′N). This area lies beyond the main wetlands of the Doñana National Park and consists of ...
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Patterns of phenoloxidase activity in insecticide resistant and susceptible mosquitoes differ between laboratory selected and wild caught individuals
... Cx. pipiens females resistant to insecticides through the overproduction of esterases have 30% less energetic resources [13], a higher pre-imaginal mortality [44] and a significantly shorter lifespan [45,46] than ...
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Both infected and uninfected mosquitoes are attracted toward malaria infected birds
... human [8] and avian [9] Plasmodium sp. infections. Using the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1), Cornet et al. have recently shown that malaria infection increases the attractiveness of domestic ...
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The mitochondrial genomes of Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Culex pipiens pallens (Diptera: Culicidae) and comparison analysis with two other Culex species
... known Culex mt genome sequences were reconstructed by maximum likelihood based on concatenated protein-coding gene ...Results: Culex tritaeniorhynchus and ...of Culex spp. Culex p. ...
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Virus interferes with host seeking behaviour of mosquito
... Culex pipiens biotype pipiens was established in the laboratory in the summer of ...2014. Culex pipiens egg rafts were collected from rainwater barrels in Best, The ...biotype ...
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A standard cytogenetic map of Culex quinquefasciatus polytene chromosomes in application for fine scale physical mapping
... mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus Say 1823 is a primary vector of several human and ani- mal pathogens: A) lymphatic filarial worm Wuchereria bancrofti, which causes elephantiasis of limbs and geni- talia, causing ...
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