Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel

R Faiman, AS Yaro, A Dao, ZL Sanogo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Data suggest that the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles coluzzii persists during the dry
season in the Sahel through a dormancy mechanism known as aestivation; however, the …

Diversity, dynamics, direction, and magnitude of high-altitude migrating insects in the Sahel

J Florio, LM Verú, A Dao, AS Yaro, M Diallo… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Long-distance migration of insects impacts food security, public health, and conservation–
issues that are especially significant in Africa. Windborne migration is a key strategy …

Dried out but alive: how mosquitoes survive 8 months

F Baldini, M Viana - Trends in Parasitology, 2023 - cell.com
How malaria mosquitoes persist during the dry season in the Sahel and rapidly rebound at
the onset of rains is unclear. Recently, Faiman and colleagues demonstrated that …

Mosquito tagging using DNA-barcoded nanoporous protein microcrystals

JD Stuart, DA Hartman, LI Gray, AA Jones… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Conventional mosquito marking technology for mark–release–recapture (MRR) is quite
limited in terms of information capacity and efficacy. To overcome both challenges, we have …

A novel fluorescence and DNA combination for versatile, long‐term marking of mosquitoes

R Faiman, BJ Krajacich, L Graber, A Dao… - Methods in ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Current mark–release–recapture methodologies are limited in their ability to address
complex problems in vector biology, such as studying multiple groups overlapping in space …

Resolving malaria's dry-season dilemma

PA Armbruster - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
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Combining 13C, 15N, and 2H to measure feeding and metabolic activity in marine, shallow-water sponges–A pilot study

T Stratmann, DX Sahonero-Canavesi… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Background: Shallow-water sponges can reach high densities and have several functions in
the ecosystem, such as, providing microhabitats for other species or being involved in …

A method for a long-term marking of spotted lanternfly (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) using a stable isotope of nitrogen

MF Porras, T López-Londoño, J Rost… - Environmental …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Developing a lifelong marking method for Lycorma delicatula (White, 1845) is crucial to
investigate ecological processes. Here we validate a marking method using stable isotope …

Stable Isotope Marking of Laboratory-Reared Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

SM Garcia-Luna, JG Juarez, S Cabañas… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The use of stable isotope enrichment to mark mosquitoes has provided a tool to study the
biology of vector species. In this study, we evaluated isotopic marking of Aedes aegypti …

Marcação de insetos para estudos biológicos

MM de Araujo, FJS Salas, V Arthur - Revista de la Facultad de …, 2022 - dialnet.unirioja.es
A técnica de marcação permite estudar os comportamentos e interações ecológicas dos
insetos, como por exemplo padrões de dispersão, movimento, territorialidade, manuseio …