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2 days ago · Said Attardo: “I will be focusing on educating people about the most imminent risks of mosquito-borne diseases in California coming from West Nile Virus—due to native Culex mosquitoes predominantly—and Aedes aegypti vectored diseases such as dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, and yellow fever. I’ll discuss places these mosquitoes breed in ...
5 days ago · Female mosquitoes clearly were following one another in small groups to one breeding site rather than another – a newly discovered behavior in Aedes aegypti that we call aggregation. The insects evidently preferred not to lay their eggs alone. When we tested 30 mosquitoes in our trials, they chose one site over another by a 2-1 margin.
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1 day ago · Interestingly, oral introduction of Rosenbergiella sp. YN46 into the mosquito gut reduced infectivity and occurrence of DENV2 and ZIKV in both A. albopictus and Aedes aegypti (another important ...
3 days ago · Mean geographical distribution maps averaged across the ten bootstrapped models for Aedes aegypti (a-d) and Aedes albopictus (e-h) in North and South America, including (a,e) the estimated ...
5 days ago · The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762), possesses a large gene family of ORs, many of which are likely to detect floral odors. In this study, we have uncovered ligand-receptor pairings for a suite of Aedes aegypti ORs using a panel of environmentally relevant, plant-derived volatile chemicals and a heterologous expression system.
26 minutes ago · In Venezuela, where those Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are common, a 1995 study found poor trash removal practices were associated with higher numbers of the pests.
2 days ago · In 1881, Dr. Carlos Finlay, a Cuban-born physician of Scottish ancestry, theorized that yellow fever was transmitted by a specific mosquito, later designated Aedes aegypti. The theory remained controversial for twenty years until it was confirmed in 1901 by Walter Reed.
