Long-Term Mosquito culture with SkitoSnack, an artificial blood meal replacement.

• Main Authors: Yashoda Kandel (Author), Soumi Mitra (Author), Xavier Jimenez (Author), Stacy D Rodriguez (Author), Alvaro Romero (Author), Brittny N Blakely (Author), Sang-Yeon Cho (Author), Charles Pelzman (Author), Immo A Hansen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The reliance on blood is a limiting factor for mass rearing of mosquitoes for Sterile-Insect-Technique (SIT) and other mosquito-based control strategies. To solve this problem, we have developed SkitoSnack, a formulated diet for Aedes aegypti (L) mosquitoes, as an alternative for vertebrate blood. H...