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Ad libitum consumption of protein- or peptide-sucrose solutions stimulates egg formation by prolonging the vitellogenic phase of oogenesis in anautogenous mosquitoes

BACKGROUND: Anautogenous mosquitoes commonly consume nectars and other solutions containing sugar but are thought to only produce eggs in discrete gonadotrophic cycles after blood-feeding on a vertebrate host. However, some anautogenous species are known to produce eggs if amino acids in the form of...

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Autores principales: Harrison, Ruby E., Chen, Kangkang, South, Lilith, Lorenzi, Ange, Brown, Mark R., Strand, Michael R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9004051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35413939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05252-4