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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mosquito ecology"”.
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Direct and indirect effects of native and invasive plants on mosquito ecology
Container-breeding mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), including the vectors of human and wildlife pathogens, interact with terrestrial plants throughout their life cycles. Inputs of leaf detritus into the aquatic habitat provide an energy base for developing larvae, and plants mediate the …
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Evaluation of the role of plant-derived chemicals in mosquito ecology and control
Although blood-feeding behavior in female mosquitoes, required both for reproduction and transmission of disease pathogens, has been extensively studied, plant-feeding is an essential element in the life histories of most mosquito species. For these species, adults of both sexes seek out and depend …
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Social and ecological risk factors for mosquito production in residential neighborhoods
Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) transmit many pathogens that affect human and wildlife health, including West Nile, Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses. Since vaccines are not currently available for many of these pathogens, control of the vectors is the most effective method to reduce disease …
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Vector-borne Disease Risk Assessment in Times of Climate Change: The Ecology of Vectors and Pathogens
… experiments. Of particular interest here, is the mosquito Aedes albopictus is an invasive disease vector which originates in the tropics and subtropics, it is a competent vector of pathogens such as dengue and chikungunya, among others. By means of correlative species distribution models, suitable …
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Blood host preferences and competitive inter-species dynamics within an African malaria vector species complex inferred from signs of animal activity around aquatic larval habitats distributed across a gradient of fully domesticated to fully pristine ecosystems in southern Tanzania
The effectiveness of current first-choice vector control interventions on the semi-zoophagic vector Anopheles arabiensis are limited, among other things, by insecticide resistance and their ability to acquire non-human bloodmeals. Across much of southern Tanzania, in areas where humans and cattle …
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HIDE AND SEEK: AN EXPLORATION OF ANTIPREDATOR AND PREDATOR AVOIDANCE MECHANISMS IN ORTHOPODOMYIA SIGNIFERA IN RESPONSE TO PREDATION FROM TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS
<p>There have been many observations of larval <em>Orthopodomyia signifera</em> coexisting with the predator <em>Toxorhynchites rutilus.</em> There are three hypotheses that could explain how <em>Or. signifera</em> resists predation from <em>Tx. rutilus</em>. The first hypothesis states that larvae …