Bacteria stimulate hatching of yellow fever mosquito eggs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Ponnusamy, Loganathan ^a   Böröczky, Katalin ^a   Wesson, Dawn M ^b   Schal, Coby ^a   Apperson, Charles S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; HATCHING; NONHUMAN; OAK; PLANT LEAF; ULTRAFILTRATION; AEDES; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); QUERCUS ALBA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; FEMALE; MALE; OVUM; PLANT LEAVES; QUERCUS; REPRODUCTION; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 80052466690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024409     Document Type: Article

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