... tissues. During bloodfeeding, mosquitoes ingest human insulin. This simple observation suggested that exogenous insulin could mimic the endogenous hormonal control of aging in mosquitoes, providing a new model to examine this phenomenon at the organismal and cellular levels. To this end, female Anopheles...

...Michelle E. H. Helinski; Rebecca Hood-Nowotny; Leo Mayr; Bart G. J. Knols The potential use of stable isotopes to study mosquito mating was investigated by tracing the fate of labelled semen into spermathecae.[ 13 C]glucose was incorporated in the diet of the malaria mosquito Anopheles arabiensis...

.... Additionally we take advantage of the recently published genome of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae to assess the complexity of the carbonic anhydrase gene family in these insects. We report here that the previously described carbonic anhydrase from Aedes aegypti is similar to mammalian CA IV in that it is a GPI...

..., these observations are extended to three dipteran vectors of disease ( Aedes aegypti, Anopheles stephensii and Glossina morsitans ) and a non-dipteran out-group, Schistocerca gregaria (Orthoptera). Despite a huge range in cell number and size, alkaline phosphatase was found on the apical surface of the lower 10...

... the transcriptional machinery of Anopheles mosquitoes is capable of directing suppression of gene expression from DNA constructs designed to transcribe double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) as extended hairpin-loop RNAs. A series of DNA vectors containing sense and antisense regions of the green fluorescent protein EGFP target...