Description
Material provided: Whole mosquitoes, dissected tissues, or extracts
Unit definition: 100 mosquitoes (50 if dissected)
Vector information
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Aedes
Species: Aedes albopictus
Strain Name: ALPROV
Place of origin: La Providence, Saint-Denis, La Réunion
Date of colonisation: 2010
Production protocol
Eggs are hatched in dechlorinated tap water and larvae are reared under controlled conditions of 150–200 larvae per 1 liter and fed with one yeast tablet renewed every 3–4 days. Adults are kept in cages at 28°±1°C with a 16h: 8h light: dark cycle, 80% relative humidity, and supplied with a 10% sucrose solution.
Product options
Please specify in your request:
Sample size: For larger sample sizes, request more units.
Whole or dissected: 100 whole mosquitoes; or 50 dissected midguts, salivary glands or ovaries
Form of material:
- Whole mosquitoes or dissected tissues, fixed in 70% ethanol, formalin, or other fixative: useful for DNA extraction from 70% ethanol, immunohistochemistry, not useful for RNA experiments or proteomics.
- Whole mosquitoes or dissected tissues, homogenised in a lysis buffer such as Trizol: useful for RNA, DNA and protein experiments.
- Whole mosquitoes or dissected tissues, frozen at -80°C or stored in RNALater useful for RNA, DNA and protein experiments.
- Other formats or preparations may be possible by request, contact us.
Publication
- Zouache K, Fontaine A, Vega-Rua A, Mousson L, Thiberge JM, Lourenco-De-Oliveira R, Caro V, Lambrechts L, Failloux AB. 2014. Three-way interactions between mosquito population, viral strain and temperature underlying chikungunya virus transmission potential. Proceedings Biological sciences / The Royal Society 281(1792).
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