| Title |
Daily blood feeding rhythms of laboratory-reared North American Culex pipiens
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Circadian Rhythms, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1740-3391-12-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Megan L Fritz, Edward D Walker, Aaron J Yunker, Ian Dworkin |
| Abstract |
Blood feeding by free-living insect vectors of disease is rhythmic and can be used to predict when infectious bites will occur. These daily rhythms can also be targeted by control measures, as in insecticide-treated nets. Culex pipiens form pipiens and C.p. f. molestus are two members of the Culex pipiens assemblage and vectors of West Nile Virus throughout North America. Although Culex species vector human pathogens and parasites, the daily blood feeding rhythms of C.p. f. molestus, to our knowledge, have not been studied. We described and compared the daily blood feeding rhythms of three laboratory-reared populations of Culex pipiens, one of which has confirmed molestus ancestry. We also examined the plasticity of blood feeding time for these three populations. |
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