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7932609

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-10-28
pubmed:abstractText
Daily survivorship and fecundity of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were monitored for cohorts provided with five nutritional treatments: water, 2% sucrose, blood from a live chicken plus water, blood plus 2% sucrose, and blood alone. The median mortality time (LT50) for these females was 6, 54, 16, 12, and 29 d, respectively. There was no significant difference in the number of eggs laid by females in any of the treatments containing a host. Females maintained on blood alone laid as many or more eggs during their lifetime as females with access to sugar who had a greater life expectancy. Males maintained on sugar alone survived significantly longer than those in any of the other treatments. Large- and small-bodied, sugar-starved Ae. aegypti females that were marked, released, and recaptured in a Thai village survived as well as the replicate cohorts that received sugar or sugar plus blood during the 36 +/- 12 h period from emergence until their release. These results indicate that Ae. aegypti females live longer in the laboratory if they are provided a source of carbohydrate, but the increased survival associated with sugar feeding does not increase reproductive success.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0022-2585
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
611-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Reproductive fitness and survivorship of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) maintained on blood, with field observations from Thailand.
pubmed:affiliation
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, Vero Beach 32962.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't