No maternal effects after stimulation of the melanization response in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti

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Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1269-1279

  Voordouw, Maarten J ^a   Lambrechts, Louis ^b,c   Koella, Jacob ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATERNAL EFFECT; MELANIN; MOSQUITO; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; WING MORPHOLOGY; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 49249130795     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16741.x     Document Type: Article

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