Flight performance and teneral energy reserves of two genetically-modified and one wild-type strain of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes Aegypti

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1053-1058

  Bargielowski, Irka ^a,c   Kaufmann, Christian ^b   Alphey, Luke ^c,d   Reiter, Paul ^e   Koella, Jacob ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Sterile Insect Technology; Tetracycline; Yellow Fever

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FLYING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENERAL ENERGY RESERVE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WILD TYPE;

AEDES; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY CONSTITUTION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, LETHAL; GLYCOGEN; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSECT VECTORS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; MUTATION; TETRACYCLINE; WING; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84865438011     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.0994     Document Type: Article

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