| reproductive costs of the immune response of the autogenous mosquito culex pipiens molestus against inoculated dirofilaria immitis. | culex pipiens molestus is an autogenous mosquito, a vector of dirofilaria immitis in madeira island, and it mounts a melanotic encapsulation response when inoculated intrathoracically with d. immitis microfilariae (mf). because cx. p. molestus is autogenous, this mosquito is a good model from which to gain a better understand the relationship between oviposition and melanization, independent of the signaling pathways related to blood feeding. the present work assessed the impact follicle growth ... | 2007 | 17979531 |