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Malaria mosquitoes acquire and allocate cattle urine to enhance life history traits

BACKGROUND: Nutrient acquisition and allocation integrate foraging and life-history traits in insects. To compensate for the lack of a particular nutrient at different life stages, insects may acquire these through supplementary feeding, for example, on vertebrate secretions, in a process known as p...

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Autores principales: Dawit, Mengistu, Hill, Sharon R., Birgersson, Göran, Tekie, Habte, Ignell, Rickard
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/PMC9188207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35690854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04179-6