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Trypsin-modulating oostatic factor: a potential new larvicide for mosquito control

¹University of Florida-IFAS, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, 200 9th Street, SE Vero Beach, FL 332962, USA. dobo@mail.ifas.ufl.edu

The Journal of Experimental Biology

|September 25, 2003

Summary

Mosquito decapeptide trypsin-modulating oostatic factor (TMOF) stops digestion and causes larval mortality. Shorter sequences and recombinant TMOF show potential as novel biorational insecticides.

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