Carbon dioxide anesthesia in phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae): CO2 effect upon two laboratory colonies.
Gravid females of 2 sand fly species, Phlebotomus papatasi and P. perniciosus, were exposed to carbon dioxide anesthesia for 5, 10 and 20 minutes. Recovery time, mortality at 0 min and 24 h, percentage of females laying eggs, time to oviposition, and egg productivity for each exposure time were registered. Survival, fecundity and oviposition time in the 2 species were not adversely affected by the short period of CO2 anesthesia routinely used in the sand fly colony maintenance.
Perrotti
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Department of Parasitology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Maroli
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D000758:Anesthesia; D000818:Animals; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000494:pharmacology; D004772:Entomology / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility / Q000187:drug effects; D010058:Oviposition / Q000187:drug effects; D010063:Ovum / Q000187:drug effects; D011576:Psychodidae
D002245:Carbon Dioxide