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Forced Salivation As a Method to Analyze Vector Competence of Mosquitoes
Published on: August 7, 2018
Age dependence of salivary bacteriolytic activity in adult mosquitoes
1Department of Entomology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331-2907.
Abstract:
1. Bacteriolytic activity in the salivary glands of adult Aedes aegypti female mosquitoes starts from a low level upon emergence, increases 6-fold over the first 3 days, then levels off. 2. Mosquitoes start sugar-feeding after 2 days, when lytic activity is one-half of the peak level. 3. Bacteriolytic activity in salivary gland extracts is not influenced by removal of corpora allata.
