Stable isotope-mass spectrometric determination of semen transfer in malaria mosquitoes

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1266-1274

  Helinski, Michelle E H ^a   Hood Nowotny, Rebecca ^a   Mayr, Leo ^a   Knols, Bart G J ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Genetic control; Mass spectrometry; Semen label; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; INSECT CONTROL; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUDAN; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CARBON ISOTOPES; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GLUCOSE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OVUM; SPERM TRANSPORT; SPERMATOZOA; SUDAN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34248334118     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.002642     Document Type: Article

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