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| Provedor de dados: |
Rev. Bras. entomol.
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Improvement of a test-chamber for behavioral studies on adult females of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) (Diptera, Culicidae)
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| Autores: |
Cabrini,Isaías
Andrade,Carlos Fernando S.
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| Data: |
2007-01-01
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| Ano: |
2007
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| Palavras-chave: |
Attraction
Behavior
Mosquito
Olfactometer
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| Resumo: |
A test-chamber (K&L-Chamber) made of cardboard and acrylic plastic, and consisting in four sections (A, B, C and D) was developed by Klowden & Lea (1978) for Aedes aegypti host-seeking behavior studies. Later, Foster & Lutes (1985) also used an identical chamber to successfully evaluate the efficacy of electronic repellers. It was described here a modified K&L-Chamber for behavioral studies of Ae. aegypti adults. The chamber was made in polystyrene, consisting of three sections (A, B and C) and using a human hand and a fluorescent lamp as stimulus to attract the mosquitoes. The suitability of the present test-chamber was validated assaying 80 replicates and releasing 10 Ae. aegypti females in each replicate. The females were released in the section A and allowed to fly to the section C. A mean of 96.0% (s.e. 0.213) Ae. aegypti females successfully reached section C. The present test-chamber is cheaper and easier to handle and as efficient as K&L-Chamber, when compared to Foster & Lutes (1978) that noticed 93.8% of Ae. aegypti reaching the trap section.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262007000200018
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| Editor: |
Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S0085-56262007000200018
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Revista Brasileira de Entomologia v.51 n.2 2007
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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