2024
DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.08.617226
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Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes

Jovana Bozic,
Renuka E. Joseph,
Rachel S. Krizek
et al.

Abstract: Female mosquitoes are reproductively obligate bloodfeeders which feed on vertebrate blood to obtain nutrients required for egg production (driving transmission of vector-borne pathogens in the process), and which rely on plant sugars for their non-reproductive energy requirements. Male mosquitoes, on the other hand, are thought to rely exclusively on plant sugars for their energetic needs; indeed, this dichotomy is one of the central tenets of medical entomology. Here, we show that male Culex tarsalis and Aede… Show more

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