Sentence examples for mosquitoes were defined from inspiring English sources
Recently, transcription profiles of adult female and male Aedes mosquitoes were defined through microarray analysis, leading to the identification of 669 and 635 transcripts enriched in females and males, respectively [ 26].
Resistant and susceptible mosquitoes were defined following virus exposure as those with or without established WNV infections at the time of death, respectively; given these experimental conditions, and therefore do not necessarily imply competence of mosquitoes when exposed to other WNV strains and/or doses.
Biological replicates were defined as parasites isolated from different animals, or, for mosquito-derived L3, extracted at different times.
Simple mosquito allergy was defined as large local reactions but not systemic reactions after mosquito bites.
For anopheline-transmitted filariasis where, due to a positive density dependence, the basic reproduction number is hard to define (see Additional File 1) we follow Regoes et al. [ 19] in calculating a threshold reproduction number pertaining to the steepest part of the mf-L3 uptake curve for this mosquito, which can be defined to be equivalent to the reproduction number in culicine systems.
Mosquito salivary gland extract (SGE), one (1) SGE was defined as the sonicate from one individual mosquito's pair of salivary glands.
Intuitively, as resources become more available, delays in the gonotrophic cycle (G) resulting from the finite searching ability of the mosquito (s) are reduced (all variables are defined along with their units in Table 1).
Infection rate was defined as the proportion of mosquitoes containing oocysts or sporozoites per total number of mosquitoes dissected in each cage.
The effects of pre-exposure to mosquito saliva upon viral infection have not been defined.
Human Biting Rate (HBR) was defined here as: "the number of mosquitoes caught per collector while in the net".
Survival was defined as the ability of the mosquito to right itself.
