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Mosquito Biology: How a Quest for Water Spawned a Thirst for Blood
The invasive yellow-fever mosquito Aedes aegypti preferentially feeds on human blood. A new study finds that human-biting in this important disease vector might just be an unfortunate side effect of breeding in human-stored water.
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Elsevier Inc.
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32961160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.030 |
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| author | Stensmyr, Marcus C. |
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| description | The invasive yellow-fever mosquito Aedes aegypti preferentially feeds on human blood. A new study finds that human-biting in this important disease vector might just be an unfortunate side effect of breeding in human-stored water. |
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| spelling | pubmed-75157522020-09-25 Mosquito Biology: How a Quest for Water Spawned a Thirst for Blood Stensmyr, Marcus C. Curr Biol Dispatch The invasive yellow-fever mosquito Aedes aegypti preferentially feeds on human blood. A new study finds that human-biting in this important disease vector might just be an unfortunate side effect of breeding in human-stored water. Elsevier Inc. 2020-09-21 2020-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7515752/ /pubmed/32961160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.030 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
| spellingShingle | Dispatch Stensmyr, Marcus C. Mosquito Biology: How a Quest for Water Spawned a Thirst for Blood |
| title | Mosquito Biology: How a Quest for Water Spawned a Thirst for Blood |
| title_full | Mosquito Biology: How a Quest for Water Spawned a Thirst for Blood |
| title_fullStr | Mosquito Biology: How a Quest for Water Spawned a Thirst for Blood |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mosquito Biology: How a Quest for Water Spawned a Thirst for Blood |
| title_short | Mosquito Biology: How a Quest for Water Spawned a Thirst for Blood |
| title_sort | mosquito biology: how a quest for water spawned a thirst for blood |
| topic | Dispatch |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32961160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.030 |
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