| haematophageous vector monitoring in djibouti city from 2008 to 2009: first records of culex pipiens ssp. torridus (iglisch), and anopheles sergentii (theobald). | the horn of africa represents a region formerly known to be highly susceptible to mosquito-borne infectious diseases. in order to monitor and analyze the current presence and threat of vector mosquitoes, continuous and standardized trapping using cdc light traps without an additional co2-generator has been carried out at six selected monitoring sites located in djibouti city, from august 2008 until december 2009. an overall of 620 haematophageous diptera were trapped, 603 (97.3%) were mosquitoes ... | 2010 | 21246936 |
| molecular expression of aquaporin mrnas in the northern house mosquito, culex pipiens. | aquaporins (aqps) are a family of membrane-bound proteins, originally described as water-channels, that broadly exist in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. however, some aqps can transport small molecules (e.g. urea, glycerol) along with or preferentially to water. previous work in the mosquitoes aedes aegypti and anopheles gambiae have characterized the molecular expression of one or more aqp genes and shown that they are involved in water homeostasis after blood feeding, tolerance to dehydratio ... | 2017 | 27773635 |