Bacteria stimulate hatching of yellow fever mosquito eggs.

BACKGROUND: Aedes aegypti Linnaeus is a peridomestic mosquito that lays desiccation-resistant eggs in water-filled human-made containers. Previous investigations connected egg hatching with declining dissolved oxygen (DO) that is associated with bacterial growth. However, past studies failed to unco...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Loganathan Ponnusamy, Katalin Böröczky, Dawn M Wesson, Coby Schal, Charles S Apperson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3167859?pdf=render