| mosquito blood-meal analysis for avian malaria study in wild bird communities: laboratory verification and application to culex sasai (diptera: culicidae) collected in tokyo, japan. | we conducted laboratory experiments to verify molecular techniques of avian malaria parasite detection distinguishing between an infected mosquito (oocysts on midgut wall) and infective mosquito (sporozoites in salivary glands) in parallel with blood-meal identification from individual blood-fed mosquitoes prior to application to field survey for avian malaria. domestic fowl infected with plasmodium gallinaceum was exposed to a vector and non-vector mosquito species, aedes aegypti and culex pipi ... | 2009 | 19629522 |
| first isolation and characterization of a mosquito-borne orbivirus belonging to the species umatilla virus in east asia. | an orbivirus was isolated from a sample from the ornithophilic mosquito culex sasai in japan. the virus, designated koyama hill virus (khv), replicated to high titer in a mosquito cell line and to a low titer in an avian cell line, but the release of progeny viruses was not observed in mammalian cell lines inoculated with khv. electron microscopic examination of khv-infected mosquito cells showed approximately 70-nm virus particles and viral tubules typical of members of the genus orbivirus, fam ... | 2014 | 24906523 |
| culex (culiciomyia) sasai (diptera: culicidae), senior synonym of cx. spiculothorax and a new country record for bhutan. | culex (culiciomyia) spiculothorax was described from thailand based on the presence of spiculation on the thorax of larvae. adult females are characterized but are indistinguishable from those of related species, such as cx. pallidothorax. phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial oxidase subunit i (coi) sequences revealed that specimens identified as cx. spiculothorax from thailand, japan and bhutan form a single clade with cx. sasai from japan (kimura 2-parameter genetic distances 0-0.9%) that is ... | 2017 | 28414028 |