For thousands of years malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, ‘malaria’, derived from two Italian words meaning ‘bad air’, highlights the ...

Anopheles gambiae mosquito WIKIMEDIA, JAMES D. GATHANY For a female Anopheles gambiae mosquito to develop and lay eggs, she must do two things: eat a blood meal, and mate. The latter, it turns out, ...

A female mosquito cannot tell if the male that she has mated with is fertile or 'spermless' and unable to fertilize her eggs, according to a new study. The research could help scientists in their ...

Mosquito sperm have a sense of smell ... Sperm sniffersScientists analyzed the mosquito species Anopheles ... The females then suck blood to get the basic compounds they need to produce eggs.

The Anopheles is a malaria carrier, and the other three are known to spread various forms of encephalitis. ... 10. Female mosquitoes can lay up to 300 eggs at a time.

Insecticide-induced leg loss does not eliminate biting and reproduction in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. Scientific Reports , 2017; 7: 46674 DOI: 10.1038/srep46674 Cite This Page : ...

A protein required for development of mosquito eggs may provide a mosquito-selective target for insecticide development, according to a new study publishing on Jan. 8 in the open-access journal ...

To reduce malaria cases worldwide, my lab explores the smells and olfactory receptors that drive different mosquito behaviors, particularly the egg-laying and host-seeking behaviors of the malaria ...

Here, the eggs would become the specimens for a genomic template of a species of Anopheles mosquito that can transmit malaria, a disease that kills more than 600,000 people each year. But the ...

Malaria has spread from mosquitoes to humans inside the U.S. for the first time in 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned. Four cases of mosquito-transmitted ...