Phenotypic changes in natural populations of Anopheles gambiae s.l. at the onset of the long dry season in tropical savannahs of Burkina Faso, West Africa.

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In the tropical savannahs with long dry seasons, malaria mosquito populations virtually disappear after the drying up of breeding sites to reappear in large numbers at the onset of next rainy season. While aestivation and long-distance migration are proposed as key strategies enabling these vectors to persist through the dry-season, the physiological, biochemical, and morphological traits underpinning these...

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