A Blood-Free Diet to Rear Anopheline MosquitoesJoana Marques 1, João C. R. Cardoso 2, Rute C. Félix 2, Deborah M. Power 2, Henrique Silveira 1
1Global Health and Tropical Medicine, GHTM, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IHMT-NOVA, 2Comparative Endocrinology and Integrative Biology, Centre of Marine Sciences, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas
A protocol is presented for formulation of a blood-free artificial diet to feed Anopheles mosquitoes in captivity. This diet has a similar performance to vertebrate blood and triggers oogenesis and egg maturation and produces viable adult progeny.
