Description
Material provided: Live eggs
Unit definition: Batch of >5000 live eggs
Vector information
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Aedes
Species: Aedes aegypti
Strain Name: PAEA
Place of origin: Paea, Tahiti (French Polynesia)
Date of colonisation: 1994
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.
Publications
- Vazeille-Falcoz M, Mousson L, Rodhain F, Chungue E, Failloux AB. 1999. Variation in oral susceptibility to dengue type 2 virus of populations of Aedes aegypti from the islands of Tahiti and Moorea, French Polynesia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 60: 292-299.
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