REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS AND SURVIVORSHIP OF AEDES-AEGYPTI (DIPTERA, CULICIDAE) MAINTAINED ON BLOOD, WITH FIELD OBSERVATIONS FROM THAILAND
REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS AND SURVIVORSHIP OF AEDES-AEGYPTI (DIPTERA, CULICIDAE) MAINTAINED ON BLOOD, WITH FIELD OBSERVATIONS FROM THAILAND
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DOI:
10.1093/jmedent/31.4.611
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发表时间:
1994-07-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
SCOTT, TW
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作者:
DAY, JF;EDEMAN, JD;SCOTT, TW
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.