She’s a femme fatale: low-density larval development produces good disease vectors

Two hypotheses for how conditions for larval mosquitoes affect vectorial capacity make opposite predictions about the relationship of adult size and frequency of infection with vector-borne pathogens. Competition among larvae produces small adult females. The competition-susceptibility hypothesis po...

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Main Authors: Steven A Juliano, Gabriel Sylvestre Ribeiro, Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas, Márcia G Castro, Claudia Codeço, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, L Philip Lounibos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2014-12-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762014000801070&lng=en&tlng=en