ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2011
Short report: The effect of preservation methods on predicting mosquito age by near infrared spectroscopy.
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- The application of spectroscopy techniques for diagnosis of malaria parasites and arboviruses and surveillance of mosquito vectors: A systematic review and critical appraisal of evidence.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Pooled it
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- Adapting field-mosquito collection techniques in a perspective of near-infrared spectroscopy implementation.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Effects of sample preservation methods and duration of storage on the performance of mid-infrared spectroscopy for predicting the age of malaria vectors.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Microbiota identified from preserved Anopheles.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- High throughput estimates of Wolbachia, Zika and chikungunya infection in Aedes aegypti by near-infrared spectroscopy to improve arbovirus surveillance.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Ability of near-infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics to predict the age of mosquitoes reared under different conditions.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- An autoencoder and artificial neural network-based method to estimate parity status of wild mosquitoes from near-infrared spectra.PloS one · 2020Article
- Prediction of mosquito species and population age structure using mid-infrared spectroscopy and supervised machine learning.Wellcome open research · 2019Article
- Age grading An. gambiae and An. arabiensis using near infrared spectra and artificial neural networks.PloS one · 2019Article
- First report on the application of near-infrared spectroscopy to predict the age of Aedes albopictus Skuse.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Monitoring the Age of Mosquito Populations Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, a Rapid Method for Predicting the Age of Male and Female Wild-Type and Wolbachia Infected Aedes aegypti.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016Article
- An improved mosquito electrocuting trap that safely reproduces epidemiologically relevant metrics of mosquito human-feeding behaviours as determined by human landing catch.Malaria journal · 2016Article
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Abstract
Determining mosquito age is important to evaluate vector control programs because the ability to transmit diseases is age dependent. Current age-grading techniques require dissection or RNA extraction. Near infrared spectroscopy has been used to rapidly and nondestructively determine the age of fresh mosquitoes and specimens stored in RNAlater, but other preservation techniques have not been examined. Thus, in this study, we investigate whether age can be predicted from insects preserved by various common methods. Results from this study show that age can be predicted from mosquitoes preserved with desiccants, ethanol, Carnoy, RNAlater, or refrigeration with confidence intervals < 1.4 days. The best results were generally obtained from mosquitoes stored using desiccants, RNAlater, or refrigeration.
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