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West Nile virus is transmitted within mosquito populations through infectious mosquito excreta

“…Third, there must be immature mosquitoes in the breeding sites. Mosquito selection of breeding sites with specific characteristics [51,52] and attraction to breeding sites with con-specific eggs [53,54] because of egg aggregation pheromone [55,56] should favor this condition. Forth, viruses have to be stable in breeding water.…”

Open Bioinformation in the Life Sciences as a Gatekeeper for Innovation and Development

“…137 However, a favourable attitude towards sharing is not widespread among researchers, especially in the GS. 138 We have probably to dismiss the Mertonian idea of an investigator moved by high values and/or the public benefit, and the concept of the scientist as a rational individual acting in the interest of the scientific body. 139 In a more cynical way, we have to admit that building a dataset requires huge intellectual efforts, and in the end those data constitute the scientist's "little treasure", which will be used for publishing any significant result.…”

Arthropod semiochemicals: mosquitoes, midges and sealice

“…Habitat-related semiochemicals, together with pheromones, may play a large role here and may be successfully exploited to produce ovitraps for monitoring and control. Apneumones from the larval-habitat-signalling plant indicator species [18] or organically enriched water sources [19][20][21] have been identified; for the mosquito C. quinquefasciatus have been used together with the C. quinquefasciatus oviposition pheromone [22,23] (compound 8 in Figure 1) to test ovitraps both in the laboratory and in the field [21,[24][25][26]. The oviposition pheromone has been produced biosynthetically, by a cheap and sustainable method, as a precursor using the summer cypress plant Kochia scoparia (Chenopodiaceae), followed by a final synthetic chemical alteration [27].…”