Understanding How Mosquitoes Weather The Winter Has Potential To Enable Manipulation of Mosquito Populations

Two genes that help insulin regulate mosquitoes’ growth have been identified as key contributors to how the insects enter a dormant state to survive winter’s cold.The research finding broadens the understanding of the mosquito life cycle and appears to shed some light on how other insects and invertebrate species weather the winter months.The shorter days of autumn trigger certain species of mosquitoes into

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Filed under: Endocrinology on May 15th, 2008