Oviposition responses of Aedes mosquitoes to bacterial isolates from attractive bamboo infusions
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- 作者：Loganathan Ponnusamy ; Coby Schal ; Dawn M. Wesson ; Consuelo Arellano…
- 关键词：Aedes aegypti ; Aedes albopictus ; Bacterial isolates ; Behavioral assays ; Attractants
- 刊名：Parasites & Vectors
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：8
- 期：1
- 全文大小：517 KB
- 刊物主题：Parasitology; Infectious Diseases; Tropical Medicine; Entomology;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1756-3305
文摘
Background The mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are vectors of pathogenic viruses that cause major human illnesses including dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya. Both mosquito species are expanding their geographic distributions and now occur worldwide in temperate and tropical climates. Collection of eggs in oviposition traps (ovitraps) is commonly used for monitoring and surveillance of container-inhabiting Aedes populations by public health agencies charged with managing mosquito-transmitted illness. Addition of an organic infusion in these traps increases the number of eggs deposited. Gravid females are guided to ovitraps by volatile chemicals produced from the breakdown of organic matter by microbes.