Vector-borne disease specialists have traditionally assumed that in each egg-laying cycle
mosquitoes take a single bloodmeal that is used for egg development and feed on plant …

Anopheles darlingi is one of the most important malaria vectors in the Americas. In this era of
new tools and strategies for malaria and vector control it is essential to have knowledge on …

Background The use of gravid mosquitoes as vehicles to auto-disseminate larvicides was
recently demonstrated for the transfer of pyriproxyfen (PPF) by container-breeding Aedes …

Background The vector species in the Amazon River Basin are regionally and locally
diverse, which makes it imperative to understand and compare their roles in malaria …

The Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis complex includes six species: An. albitarsis,
Anopheles oryzalimnetes Wilkerson and Motoki, n. sp., Anopheles marajoara, Anopheles …

Anopheles darlingi is the primary malaria vector in Latin America, and is especially
important in Amazonian Brazil. Historically, control efforts have been focused on indoor …

We performed a longitudinal study of adult survival of Anopheles darlingi, the most important
vector in the Amazon, in a malarigenous frontier zone of Brazil. Survival rates were …

Anopheles darlingi is an important vector of human malaria in the Amazon. Adult females of
this mosquito species require a blood meal to develop eggs, preferring humans to other …

Parity and age composition for Anopheles darlingi and Anopheles albitarsis in the northern
Amazon Basin, Brazil, were investigated. Anopheline ovaries and ovarioles were examined …

Aedes aegypti imbibes multiple blood meals in each gonotrophic cycle (Scott et al. 1993). It
prefers human blood, and rarely feeds on sugar (Edman et al. 1992; Van Handel et al …