Mosquito gonotrophic cycle and multiple feeding potential: contrasts between Anopheles and Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae).
Two aedine and three anopheline species were allowed to blood-feed to repletion, and their host-seeking behavior was measured with an olfactometer at intervals afterward. Both Aedes aegypti (L.) and Ae. albopictus (Skuse) were inhibited from subsequently seeking a host during the gonotrophic cycle, but Anopheles gambiae Giles, An. albimanus Wiedemann, and An. freeborni Aitken, all showed varying degrees of host-seeking behavior while their eggs matured. Continued host-seeking by some anophelines during the gonotrophic cycle has important implications for some assumptions commonly made about mosquito behavior and parasite transmission.
Klowden
M J
MJ
Division of Entomology, University of Idaho, Moscow 83844-2339.
Briegel
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H
D000330:Aedes / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000502:physiology*; D001769:Blood; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010063:Ovum / Q000254:growth & development; D013045:Species Specificity