A cryopreservation method to recover laboratory- and field-derived bacterial communities from mosquito larval habitats.
Mosquitoes develop in a wide range of aquatic habitats containing highly diverse and variable bacterial communities that shape both larval and adult traits, including the capacity of adult females of some mosquito species to transmit disease-causing organisms to humans. However, while most mosquito...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2023-04-01
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Series: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011234 |