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Ad libitum consumption of protein- or peptide-sucrose solutions stimulates egg formation by prolonging the vitellogenic phase of oogenesis in anautogenous mosquitoes

Posted on Apr 12, 2022 in publications
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Insulin-like peptide 3 stimulates hemocytes to proliferate in anautogenous and facultatively autogenous mosquitoes

Posted on Mar 8, 2022 in publications
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The Peptide Hormone CNMa Influences Egg Production in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

Posted on Feb 25, 2022 in publications
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Insulin-like peptide 3 stimulates hemocytes to proliferate in anautogenous and facultatively autogenous mosquitoes

Posted on Feb 7, 2022 in publications
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Whole blood and blood components from vertebrates differentially affect egg formation in three species of anautogenous mosquitoes

Posted on Feb 24, 2021 in publications
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Predaceous Toxorhynchites mosquitoes require a living gut microbiota to develop

Posted on Jan 22, 2020 in publications
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Trainee Spotlight: Ruby Harrison

Posted on Nov 28, 2017 in CTEGD Blog, Trainee Spotlight
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NIH T32 trainee Ruby Harrison is a co-advised by Drs. Michael Strand and Mark Brown in the UGA Department of Entomology. She received a Bachelor's of Science in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 and lived in Madison an additional two years working with mosquitoes as a...

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