Why do mosquitoes use two modes of drinking? An analytical test of a blockage clearing hypothesis
Mosquitoes drink using a pair of in-line muscular pumps in the head that draw liquid food through a long drinking channel termed as proboscis. Experimental investigations of mosquito drinking using synchrotron x-ray indicate two modes of drinking, a predominantly occurring continuous mode in which t...
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Virginia Tech
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78118 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05152015-123825/ |