Description
Material provided: Live eggs
Unit definition: Batch of >5000 live eggs
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.
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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