Mosquito Gonotrophic Cycle and Multiple Feeding Potential: Contrasts Between Anopheles and Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae)
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 31 (4) , 618-622
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/31.4.618
Abstract
Two aedine and three anopheline species were allowed to blood-feed to repletion, and their host-seeking behavior was measured with an olfactometer at intervals afterward. Both Aedes aegypti (L.) and Ae. albopictus (Skuse) were inhibited from subsequently seeking a host during the gonotrophic cycle, but Anopheles gambiae Giles, An. albimanus Wiedemann, and An. freeborni Aitken, all showed varying degrees of hostseeking behavior while their eggs matured. Continued host-seeking by some anophelines during the gonotrophic cycle has important implications for some assumptions commonly made about mosquito behavior and parasite transmission.Keywords
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