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

• Principais autores: Yashoda Kandel (Autor), Soumi Mitra (Autor), Xavier Jimenez (Autor), Stacy D Rodriguez (Autor), Alvaro Romero (Autor), Brittny N Blakely (Autor), Sang-Yeon Cho (Autor), Charles Pelzman (Autor), Immo A Hansen (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...