Posts Tagged: dengue mosquito

Temperature Fluctuations Affect Population Growth Rate of Dengue Mosquito

Exciting research today out of the University of California, Davis. The PLOS ONE journal published  “Effects of Fluctuating Daily Temperatures at Critical Thermal Extremes on Aedes aegypti Life-History Traits," written by lead...

Dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

In Pursuit of the Dengue Mosquito

The target: the dengue mosquito. The occasion: A UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar. Jacklyn Wong, who last summer received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, studying with major professor and mosquito expert Tom Scott, will headline...

Jacklyn Wong in a canopy just outside of Iquitos, Peru. (Photo by Stephen Yanoviak)

Jacklyn Wong in a canopy just outside of Iquitos, Peru. (Photo by Stephen Yanoviak)

The dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

The dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

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