Use of oven-dried blood for in vitro feeding of tsetse flies.
Comparison of the survival, fecundity and offspring size of Glossina palpalis palpalis females fed reconstituted oven-dried blood, fresh, frozen/thawed, or reconstituted freeze-dried blood showed that oven-drying at 45 degrees C does not diminish the nutritional quality of blood. The significance of this finding is discussed with a view to optimizing costs and conditions of blood-diet storage and transportation in the context of mass-rearing of tsetse flies.
Entomology Unit, Joint FAO/IAEA Programme, Agency's Laboratories, Seibersdorf, Austria.
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Kabayo
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Taher
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Barnor
D000818:Animals; D001769:Blood; D002417:Cattle; D003890:Desiccation; D013552:Swine; D013696:Temperature; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000502:physiology*