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Small mosquitoes, large implications: crowding and starvation affects gene expression and nutrient accumulation in Aedes aegypti
27 Apr 2015
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BACKGROUND: Environmental factors such as temperature, nutrient availability, and larval density determine the outcome of postembryonic development in mosquitoes. Suboptimal temperatures, crowding, and starvation during the larval phase reduce adult mosquito size, nutrient stores and affect vectorial capacity. METHODS: In this study we compared adult female Aedes aegypti, Rockefeller strain, raised under standard...
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