Sentence examples for make the mosquito from inspiring English sources

"Environmental conditions like rainfall, humidity and hydrostatic pressure make the mosquito well adapted to the region".

They damage salivary tissue, make the mosquitoes fly less vigorously and lay fewer eggs and, to gain a toehold in the insect, may depress its immune system.

"Machine ditching was once considered the preferred method of controlling mosquitoes, but new data shows that in many areas it actually made the mosquito problem worse and helped to destroy many of our wetlands," Mr. Levy said in his State of the County address in Wyandanch on Monday.

Thus, gene drive could be used to reduce malaria transmission in humans or in endangered birds (see image, above)—by making the mosquito vectors incapable of spreading the malaria parasite or even eliminating the insects altogether.

By killing mosquitoes before the malaria parasite has completed its development and made the mosquito infectious, they block transmission; by letting the youngest mosquitoes survive, they enable them to lay eggs, thus decreasing selection pressure for resistance (Koella et al. 2009a, b; Read et al. 2009).

Furthermore, it is imperative to examine translational regulation in natural vector-parasite combinations since co-evolution and natural selection has made the mosquito- Plasmodium interactions vary among different vector-parasite combinations, or even between different geographical strains of the same species.

Professor Despommier said it may also be that many of the birds that are the mosquitoes' favored prey leave dry areas, making the mosquitoes more likely to feed on humans instead.

It certainly made the mosquitoes more tolerable".

Several years ago, a group of medical entomologists at Johns Hopkins University created a strain of Anopheles stephensi (a mosquito that bites rodents) equipped with a gene called SM1 that makes the mosquitoes resistant to infection with Plasmodium berghei, a rodent malaria parasite.

Attempts are ongoing to infect the mosquito population with bacteria of the Wolbachia genus, which makes the mosquitoes partially resistant to dengue virus.

Yet many still fail to make the connection between the mosquito and symptoms such as headaches and aching bones.