Ae. aegypti mosquitoes do not succumb to these viruses when infected and continue to move and feed normally. As such, the infected mosquitoes can pass their viral cargoes on to humans. The ...

The debate over these transgenic Ae. aegypti mosquitoes has gone on so long that Oxitec has upgraded its original more coddled version with one that is essentially plug and play. The newer strain ...

"Our findings underscore the need for systematic surveillance of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus in the United States and delineate areas with risk for the transmission of these introduced ...

A single mating may be all an Ae. aegypti needs; she stores sperm inside her body, fertilizing separate batches of eggs as needed, up to several hundred at a time. Five or six occasions of egg ...

Like the related tiger mosquito that also carries these diseases, the Ae. aegypti are distinguished by black and white stripes along their legs. These mosquitoes thrive in urban areas, which makes the ...

A new study suggests that early interventions may prevent disease transmission even as extreme climate events may increase the abundance of Ae. aegypti populations. Temperature and rainfall have ...

because the traditional approaches to mosquito control were failing to protect the country’s inhabitants from Ae. aegypti–borne viral diseases. Here is the clincher: Their findings were not new, and ...

Despite their phylogenetic distances, each of these viruses has become adapted to transmission by Ae. aegypti, the vector now provisionally implicated in the Caribbean chikungunya outbreaks.

Over time, flooding a neighborhood with bad dads should shrink the local population of Ae. aegypti mosquitoes. That species “is very difficult to control,” says Andrea Leal, executive director ...

The team crossed Ae. aegypti, a major global arboviral disease vector, and its sibling species, Ae. mascarensis, from the Indian Ocean. When offspring is crossed back with one parent ...