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‘We like it wet’: a comparison between dissection techniques for the assessment of parity in Anopheles arabiensis and determination of sac stage in mosquitoes alive or dead on collection

BACKGROUND: The determination of parous rates in mosquitoes, despite numerous shortcomings, remains a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of control programs and to determine vectorial capacity in malaria vectors. Two dissection techniques are used for this. For one, the tracheoles of dried ovaries a...

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Autores principales: Charlwood, Jacques D., Tomás, Erzelia V.E., Andegiorgish, Amanuel K., Mihreteab, Selam, LeClair, Corey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6044268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30018854
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5155