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Long-Term Mosquito culture with SkitoSnack, an artificial blood meal replacement

The reliance on blood is a limiting factor for mass rearing of mosquitoes for Sterile-Insect-Technique (SIT) and other mosquito-based control strategies. To solve this problem, we have developed SkitoSnack, a formulated diet for Aedes aegypti (L) mosquitoes, as an alternative for vertebrate blood. H...

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Autores principales: Kandel, Yashoda, Mitra, Soumi, Jimenez, Xavier, Rodriguez, Stacy D., Romero, Alvaro, Blakely, Brittny N., Cho, Sang-Yeon, Pelzman, Charles, Hansen, Immo A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32941432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008591