Laboratory members from the University of California, Irvine Malaria Initiative, and their collaborators, have been using a prototype Cas9/gRNA-based… Read more »
A recent study shows how disruption of the mosquito doublesex gene affects the courtship songs produced by females.
Authors of a recent study evaluated which mosquito trap is best to use in combination with honey-baited FTA filter paper cards as… Read more »
Evidence for large-scale dispersal of malaria mosquitoes across the Sahel comes from balloon sampling
Mass-rearing and mass-releasing sterile insects is a technique to eliminate harmful insects or to transform a species so that it… Read more »
In this blog Dr Richard Samuels articulates and contextualizes the research put forward in a recent article published in Parasites… Read more »
Mosquitoes are predominantly night feeders, but this is changing due to the selective pressure imposed by the use of bednets. Does… Read more »
Krisztian Magori (@BiteOfAMosquito) discusses the newest innovation in arbovirus surveillance, using mosquito excreta to test for… Read more »
Some mosquitoes have a strong preference for feeding on humans rather than other vertebrates. Our smell is one of the cues they… Read more »
With mosquito species adapting to feed outdoors, limiting the effectiveness of malaria prevention techniques like bed nets, there… Read more »
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