Suppression of Male Characteristics of Mosquitoes by Thermal Means
- 9 June 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 133 (3467) , 1830
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.133.3467.1830
Abstract
Dimorphism in Aedes stimulans, a northern floodwater mosquito, may be decreased possibly to obliteration by exposing larvae for most of their lives to abnormally high temperature. Determiners for maleness fail to express themselves when larvae are exposed to a temperature of 29°C throughout their lives. Not only are male characteristics eliminated, but normal female ones such as ovaries, spermathecae, and cerci develop. The resultant adult is structurally a female. Forms showing characteristics of both sexes occur when the number of days of exposure to 29°C is lessened.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Development, Structure, and Function of Covering of Eggs of Floodwater Mosquitoes. I. Ovarian DevelopmentAnnals of the Entomological Society of America, 1957
- Induced Copulation of Aedine MosquitoesScience, 1957