Validation of a new larval rearing unit for Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) mass rearing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Balestrino, Fabrizio ^a   Puggioli, Arianna ^b   Gilles, Jérémie R L ^a   Bellini, Romeo ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b Centro Agricoltura Ambiente G Nicoli(CAA)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; DIET; FEMALE; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; REARING; SURVIVAL RATE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER TEMPERATURE; AEDES; ANIMAL; BREEDING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PUPA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; PUPA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84898622919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091914     Document Type: Article

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