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Stimulating Anopheles gambiae swarms in the laboratory: application for behavioural and fitness studies

BACKGROUND: Male Anopheles mosquitoes that swarm rely in part on features of the environment including visual stimuli to locate swarms. Swarming is believed to be the primary behaviour during which mating occurs in the field, but is not a common behaviour in the laboratory. Features that stimulate m...

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Autores principales: Facchinelli, Luca, Valerio, Laura, Lees, Rosemary S, Oliva, Clelia F, Persampieri, Tania, Collins, C Matilda, Crisanti, Andrea, Spaccapelo, Roberta, Benedict, Mark Q
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4501190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26169677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0792-2