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Engorgement response of anopheline mosquitoes to blood fractions and artificial solutions
Author(s) -
GALUN R.,
KOONTZ L. C.,
GWADZ R. W.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
physiological entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-3032
pISSN - 0307-6962
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1985.tb00029.x
Subject(s) - biology , anopheles gambiae , anopheles stephensi , anopheles , zoology , blood sucking , ecology , malaria , immunology , larva , aedes aegypti
.Anopheles stephensi Liston, Anopheles freeborni Aitken, Anopheles gambiae Giles and Anopheles dirus (Peyton & Harrison) fed equally well on whole blood, red blood cells, platelet‐rich plasma and platelet‐poor plasma. Similar feeding ability on 0.15 M NaCl containing 10 ‐2 M NaHCO 3 was shown by the first three species, but An. dirus required an addition of albumin. The need for ATP as a phagostimulant could not be demonstrated in any of these species.