Polarized light and oviposition site selection in the yellow fever mosquito:: No evidence for positive polarotaxis in Aedes aegypti
Polarized light and oviposition site selection in the yellow fever mosquito:: No evidence for positive polarotaxis in Aedes aegypti
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10.1016/j.visres.2008.04.007
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发表时间：
2008-06-01
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1.8
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Meyer-Rochow, Victor Benno
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作者：
Bernath, Balazs;Horvath, Gabor;Meyer-Rochow, Victor Benno
水生昆虫和与水相关的昆虫使用水平偏振光（即，正趋极性），以检测潜在的水生或潮湿产卵场所。蚊子产卵在潮湿的基质上，水中，充满水的树洞/岩石洞，或人造的装有水的小容器/瓶子/旧轮胎。到目前为止，蚊子是否具有趋极性仍然是未知的。了解蚊子如何找到水源对于开发新的控制措施非常重要。因此，我们研究了在双选择实验室实验中的作用，水平偏振光在选择产卵地点的吸血，妊娠女性的黄热病蚊子，埃及伊蚊。根据我们的研究结果，我们建议，Ae。埃及伊蚊不是趋极性的。因此，黄热病蚊子是第一个已知的不通过水平偏振检测水的与水相关的昆虫物种。这可以通过小体积水反射光的反射-偏振特性来解释。水填充的空腔/容器由Ae.埃及伊蚊作为产卵场所，（c）2008 Elsevier Ltd.保留所有权利。
Aquatic insects and insects associated with water use horizontally polarized light (i.e., positive polarotaxis) to detect potential aquatic or moist oviposition sites. Mosquitoes lay their eggs onto wet substrata, in water, water-filled tree/rock holes, or man-made small containers/bottles/old tyres containing water. Until now it has remained unknown whether mosquitoes are polarotactic or not. The knowledge how mosquitoes locate water would be important to develop new control measures against them. Thus, we studied in dual-choice laboratory experiments the role of horizontally polarized light in the selection of oviposition sites in blood-fed, gravid females of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. On the basis of our results we propose that Ae. aegypti is not polarotactic. Thus the yellow fever mosquito is the first known water-associated insect species that does not detect water by means of the horizontally polarized This can be explained by the reflection-polarization characteristics of small-volume water-reflected light. water-filled cavities/containers preferred by Ae. aegypti as oviposition sites, (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.