A fitness advantage for Aedes aegypti and the viruses it transmits when females feed only on human blood

Literature on arthropod-borne diseases has traditionally supported the notion that mosquito vectors maintain a feeding duality that includes vertebrate blood meals for egg development and sugar meals from plants for the synthesis of flight and survival energy reserves. Aedes aegypti was found to dev...

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Main Authors: Thomas W. Scott, Amara Naksathit, Jonathan F. Day, Pattamaporn Kittayapong, John D. Edman
Other Authors: University of California, Davis
Format: Article
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/18004
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Institution: Mahidol University