Sentence examples for blood feed from inspiring English sources

Starting on Saturday, convention officials will begin a highly organized nationwide campaign to get volunteers to donate blood, feed the hungry and operate community health fairs.

The number of mosquitoes required to achieve a successful blood feed varied per individual.

It should be noted that all other studies have used the same criteria for a successful blood feed.

Interestingly, male mosquitoes, which do not blood feed, lack RER whorls in their midgut epithelial cells [12].

The cycles are defined such that when Φ equals 0, parous female mosquitoes oviposit and then blood feed; when θ equals 0, rainfall occurs.

Experimental hut studies have shown that in south Benin pyrethroid resistant An.gambiae were able to blood feed on persons sleeping under holed insecticide treated nets whilst similarly holed nets did inhibit blood feeding in north Benin where vectors were susceptible [9].

In their original analysis of this RNAseq data set, Bonizzoni et al. (2012) confirmed by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction the expression of four of these SDMA genes post-blood feed (AAEL01327-RB, AAEL009166-RA, AAEL013118-RA, and AAEL001621-RA).

An independent RNAseq experiment from seven different life stages of the A. aegypti reference strain (Liverpool; designated LVR in fig. 6) also showed developmentally regulated expression of this gene family, including AAEL010436-RA, and confirms a high level of expression in a post-blood feed stage (supplementary fig. S11, Supplementary Material online).

Our analysis of the available RNAseq data in A. aegypti suggests a role in feeding for some of the SDMA homologs as indicated by the high level of expression of many SDMA genes 24 h post-blood feed compared with the sugar feed control (Bonizzoni et al. 2012).

Female mosquitoes blood-feed to provide protein for egg development.

Adult males and immature (larval and pupal) stages are not considered as they do not blood-feed and, hence, do not transmit BTV.