Gender beyond male and female: Occurrence of a gynandromorph in the Japanese encephalitis vector Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae)
A gynandromorph of Culex sitiens Wiedemann (Diptera: Culicidae) was attracted to a human during a mosquito surveillance programme conducted in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Malaysia on July 20, 2019. Gynandromorphism was observed in antennae, maxillary palps, legs and wings of the specimen, with distinct mal...
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| author | Low, Van Lun Wong, Meng Li Liew, Jonathan Wee Kent Pramasivan, Sandthya Jeyaprakasam, Nantha Kumar Vythilingam, Indra |
| author_facet | Low, Van Lun Wong, Meng Li Liew, Jonathan Wee Kent Pramasivan, Sandthya Jeyaprakasam, Nantha Kumar Vythilingam, Indra |
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| description | A gynandromorph of Culex sitiens Wiedemann (Diptera: Culicidae) was attracted to a human during a mosquito surveillance programme conducted in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Malaysia on July 20, 2019. Gynandromorphism was observed in antennae, maxillary palps, legs and wings of the specimen, with distinct male characters on the left and female characters on the right, though the left maxillary palp is slightly shorter than the proboscis of a typical male. The abdomen, however, displays well-developed male genitalia. This study represents the first report of oblique gynandromorphism in Cx. sitiens, one of the vectors of Japanese encephalitis in Asia. © 2019 Elsevier B.V. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-148572019-11-11T05:03:54Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/14857/ Gender beyond male and female: Occurrence of a gynandromorph in the Japanese encephalitis vector Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae) Low, Van Lun Wong, Meng Li Liew, Jonathan Wee Kent Pramasivan, Sandthya Jeyaprakasam, Nantha Kumar Vythilingam, Indra R Medicine A gynandromorph of Culex sitiens Wiedemann (Diptera: Culicidae) was attracted to a human during a mosquito surveillance programme conducted in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Malaysia on July 20, 2019. Gynandromorphism was observed in antennae, maxillary palps, legs and wings of the specimen, with distinct male characters on the left and female characters on the right, though the left maxillary palp is slightly shorter than the proboscis of a typical male. The abdomen, however, displays well-developed male genitalia. This study represents the first report of oblique gynandromorphism in Cx. sitiens, one of the vectors of Japanese encephalitis in Asia. © 2019 Elsevier B.V. Elsevier 2020 Article PeerReviewed Low, Van Lun and Wong, Meng Li and Liew, Jonathan Wee Kent and Pramasivan, Sandthya and Jeyaprakasam, Nantha Kumar and Vythilingam, Indra (2020) Gender beyond male and female: Occurrence of a gynandromorph in the Japanese encephalitis vector Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae). Acta Tropica, 201. p. 105207. ISSN 0001-706X, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.105207 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.105207>. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.105207 doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.105207 |
| spellingShingle | R Medicine Low, Van Lun Wong, Meng Li Liew, Jonathan Wee Kent Pramasivan, Sandthya Jeyaprakasam, Nantha Kumar Vythilingam, Indra Gender beyond male and female: Occurrence of a gynandromorph in the Japanese encephalitis vector Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae) |
| title | Gender beyond male and female: Occurrence of a gynandromorph in the Japanese encephalitis vector Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae) |
| title_full | Gender beyond male and female: Occurrence of a gynandromorph in the Japanese encephalitis vector Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae) |
| title_fullStr | Gender beyond male and female: Occurrence of a gynandromorph in the Japanese encephalitis vector Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender beyond male and female: Occurrence of a gynandromorph in the Japanese encephalitis vector Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae) |
| title_short | Gender beyond male and female: Occurrence of a gynandromorph in the Japanese encephalitis vector Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae) |
| title_sort | gender beyond male and female occurrence of a gynandromorph in the japanese encephalitis vector culex sitiens diptera culicidae |
| topic | R Medicine |
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