ArticleiScience2025
Multiple blood feeding bouts in mosquitoes allow for prolonged survival and are predicted to increase viral transmission during dry periods.
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- Climatic, Socioecological and Environmental Determinants of Aedes spp. Dynamics at the Community Interface: A Systematic Review With Reflections From a One Health Perspective.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2026Pooled it
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- Humidity as a potential zeitgeber for circadian entrainment of insect systems.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2026Article
- Dehydrating microhabitats increase mite activity and intensify ectoparasitism of Drosophila.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2026Article
- Dehydrating microhabitats increase mite activity and intensify ectoparasitism ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Risk factor for gametocyte carriage and gametocytemia in Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Article
- The impact of sugar diet on humidity preference, survival, and host landing in mosquitoes.Journal of medical entomology · 2025Article
- Effect of prolonged dehydration stress on the vector competence ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change.Current opinion in insect science · 2025Review
- Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Dry conditions increase blood feeding in mosquitoes, but it is unknown if dehydration-induced bloodmeals are increased beyond what is necessary for reproduction. In this study, we investigated the role of dehydration in secondary blood feeding behaviors of mosquitoes. Following an initial bloodmeal, prolonged exposure to dry conditions increased secondary blood feeding in mosquitoes by nearly two-fold, and chronic blood feeding allowed mosquitoes to survive up to 20 days without access to water. Exposure to desiccating conditions following a bloodmeal resulted in increased activity, decreased sleep levels, and prompted a return of CO
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