Mosquitoes Aedes aegypti

As mosquito larvae are relatively easy to kill with insecticides, any toxic spray residue is likely to be detected. Two species of mosquito larvae were used, the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti L.) and the southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasdatus Say). Tests with the southern house mosquito were made essentially according to the method of Campbell, Sullivan, and Smith (I), except for the kind of food supplied and size of containers used. 

Normal Routes of Exposure Vectors (mosquitoes—Aedes aegypti). 

The jet plane has made it easy to travel to and from previously inaccessible parts of the world, for business or vacation. Infectious diseases or agents that transmit these diseases can, therefore, be rapidly transferred to countries in which the population has never encountered the diseases, so that the infection rapidly spreads throughout the population. Such transport of pathogens is reminiscent of the transmission of diseases that were previously unknown in North America but were transported from Africa in the slave ships. For example, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which transmits the virus that causes yellow fever, was probably transported in water barrels on these ships. 

Mosquito, Aedes aegypti, 4th instar larvae 20 (equivalent to 0.056 kg/ha)... 

Bernier UR, Kline DL, Barnard DR, Schreck CE, Yost RA (2000) Analysis of Human Skin Emanations by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry. 2. Identification of Volatile Compounds That Are Candidate Attractants for the Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes aegypti). Anal Chem 72 747... 

Martin D., Wang S.-F. and Raikhel A. S. (2001) The vitellogenin gene of the mosquito Aedes aegypti is a direct target of ecdysteroid receptor. Mol. Cell. Endocrin. 173, 75-86. 

Bausenwein B. and Nick P. (1998) Three dimensional reconstruction of the antennal lobe in the mosquito, Aedes aegypti. In New Neuroethology on the Move, eds R. Wehner and N. Eisner, p. 386. Thieme Stuttgart. 

Distler P. and Boeckh J. (1997a) Central projections of the maxillary and antennal nerves in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. J. Exp. Biol. 200, 1873-1879. 

Klowden M. J. and Blackmer J. L. (1987) Humoral control of pre-oviposition behaviour in the mosquito, Aedes aegypti. J. Insect. Physiol. 33, 689-692. 

Pietrantonio PV, Jagge C, McDowell C. Cloning and expression analysis of a 5HT7-like serotonin receptor cDNA from mosquito Aedes aegypti female excre-toiy and respiratory systems. Insect Mol Biol 2001 10 357-369. 

Lee DW, Pietrantonio PV. In vitro expression and pharmacology of the 5-HT7-like receptor present in the mosquito Aedes aegypti tracheolar cells and hindgut-associated nerves. Insect Mol Biol 2003 12 561-569. 

Roth, T.F., Porter, K.R. Yolk protein uptake in the oocyte of the mosquito Aedes aegypti. J Cell Biol 20 (1964) 313-330. 

Kumar, S., Thomas, A., Sahgal, A., Verma, A., Samuel, T., and Phillai, M.K.K., Effect of the synergist, piperonyl butoxide, on the development of deltamethrin resistance in yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera Culicidae), Arch. Insert Biochem. Physiol., 50,1, 2002. 

Egg Development Neurosecretory Hormone Activity in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti... 

Z. A., Dremova, V. P., Markina. V. V., and Bogdanova. E. N., Repellent properties of Mannich bases derived from crcsol and phenol for mosquitoes Aedes Aegypti L. and fleas Xenopsylla Cheopis Roths., Med. Parazitol. Parazit. Bolezni, 52. 46, 1983 Chem, Ab.str.. 99, 18028, 1983. 

Turell, M.J., Knudson, G.B. (1987). Mechanical transmission of Bacillus anthracis by stable flies (Stomoxys calcitrans) and mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti and Aedes taeniorhynchus). Infect. Immun. 55 1859-61. 

Chiricanine A (73), longistylines C, D, and 3,5-dimethoxystilbene showed toxic properties against larvae of the yellow fever-transmitting mosquito Aedes aegypti. 3,5-Dimethoxystilbene was found to be as potent as rotenone in larvicidal dilution tests [49]. 

Berry WD, Brammer JD. 1977. Toxicity of water-soluble gasoline fractions to fourth-instar larvae of the mosquito Aedes aegypti L. Environ Pollut 13 229-234. 

Toxicity of the compounds was examined in four types of insects house fly (Musca domestica), mosquito (Aedes aegypti), corn rootworm beetles (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera and Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi) and the German cockroach (Blattella... 

Of the other older dialkyl-aryl phosphorothionates, fenthion is still widely used. Fenthion has a better residual efficiency than parathion and methyl parathion and is probably less toxic to fish — 0.01 mg/1 at 24 hours exposure results in 100% mortality in mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti), whereas 1 mg/1 does not kill any guppy (Lebistes reticulatus) during 48 hours exposure. 

Dengue / Dengue hemorrhagic fever (virus) Mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, Aedes hebridens) + + + +... 

The (myo) kinin family of peptides is especially a very interesting one, because its members have two very different functional activities in insects. The first members of this family were originally isolated on the basis of stimulation of the cockroach hindgut in vitro from extracts of whole heads of L. maderae [151]. This species contains 8 isoforms of kinins. Shortly after their first isolation, it was reported that these kinins also stimulate diuretic activity of isolated Malpighian tubules of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti [175], This function of kinins has now been shown regularly in conspecific diuretic assays with a number of other insect species. To date, the structure of kinins (see Table 5) have been fully elucidated in insects from the American cockroach (8 isoforms), the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (5 isoforms), the migratory locust (1 isoform), the mosquitoes, Culex salinarius and A. 

Argentine, J.A., James, A.A., 1995. Characterization of a salivary gland-specific esterase in the vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 25, 621-630. 

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