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Robert L Aldridge1, W Wayne Wynn, Seth C Britch
1US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Center for Medical Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, 1600 SW 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA.
Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
|April 27, 2012
Abstract:
We describe an innovative aspirator gun designed to transfer individual anesthetized mosquitoes directly into glass bioassay tubes. The gun has been used for thousands of transfers with extremely low associated mortality and is the central component of a high-throughput bioassay system. The gun is constructed using readily obtainable materials and can be modified for a range of insects.
