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Changes in the spontaneous flight activity of the mosquito Anopheles stephensi by parasitization with the rodent malaria Plasmodium yoelii

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

M. Rowland  and
Erica Boersma
M. Rowland*
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
Erica Boersma
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
*
*Address for reprint requests: Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts. AL5 2JQ.
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Summary

An acoustic actograph was used to monitor for 17 days after infection the spontaneous flight activity of the mosquito Anopheles stephensi parasitized with the rodent malaria Plasmodium yoelii. Activity fell to approximately two-thirds of control levels at about day 10 post-infection – when oocysts were reaching maximum size and starting to rupture (mean number of oocysts = 92) – and thereafter remained at this reduced level. The circadian activity pattern was not affected by the parasitism.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 97 , Issue 2 , October 1988 , pp. 221 - 227
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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