Open AccessLarvicidal efficacy of Ethiopian ethnomedicinal plant Juniperus procera essential oil against Afrotropical malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidae)
Author(s) -
Kaliyaperumal Karunamoorthi,
Askual Girmay,
Samuel Fekadu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of tropical biomedicine/asian pacific journal of tropical biomedicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.507
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 2588-9222
pISSN - 2221-1691
DOI - 10.12980/apjtb.4.2014c687
Subject(s) - instar , larva , procera , biology , anopheles , traditional medicine , calotropis procera , vector (molecular biology) , toxicology , malaria , botany , veterinary medicine , medicine , biochemistry , gene , immunology , recombinant dna
To screen the essential oil of Juniperus procera (J. procera) (Cupressaceae) for larvicidal activity against late third instar larvae of Anopheles arabiensis (An. arabiensis) Patton, the principle malaria vector in Ethiopia.