Description
Material provided: Live eggs from wild-collected samples
Unit definition: 3 egg layings (about 10,000 to 30,000 eggs)
Vector information
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Aedes
Species: Aedes aegypti
Strain Name: Wild population
Place of origin: New Caledonia
Production protocol
Wild samples will be collected in New Caledonia to produce eggs of this vector species.
A minimum of 300 larvae will be collected from different breeding sites within a radius of 100 m. The collection area will be determined in agreement with the user. Larvae will be morphologically identified and raised to adult in the insectaries of IPNC. Eggs from a minimum of 3 ovipositions will be produced from the adults raised from wild larvae. Eggs will be collected and dried on filter paper.
Publications
Calvez, E., L. Guillaumot, L. Millet, J. Marie, H. Bossin, V. Rama, A. Faamoe, S. Kilama, M. Teurlai, F. Mathieu-Daudé and M. Dupon-Rouzeyrol, Genetic diversity and phylogeny of Aedes aegypti, the main arbovirus vector in the Pacific. PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2016. 10(1): p. e0004374.
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