Sentences with word «pipiens»

«After aquatic plants were mowed in the basins, we saw a large increase in the number of Culex pipiens mosquito larvae in the basins, which had relatively few before mowing,» Mackay said.

The mowing of wetland plants in basins that failed to drain properly led to a boom in populations of Culex pipiens mosquitoes, which can carry and transmit the deadly virus, researchers report.

King, T. J. and Briggs, R. Transplantation of Living Nuclei of Late Gastrulae into Enucleated Eggs of Rana pipiens.

The second ecological form, Culex pipiens f. molestus, prefers the blood of mammals including humans.

Efforts to sequence the closely related common «house» mosquito Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus may also help resolve some of these questions when completed, potentially as early as the end of this year.

As it turns out, C. pipiens does a happy dance when it comes to standing water containing leaf litter from two non-native, invasive plants, Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) and autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata).

Given the new study, Kramer tentatively concludes that «what we've been calling pipiens are a hybrid» of bird - biting and human - biting mosquitoes.

The London Underground Mosquito (Culex pipiens molestus) has been found in underground systems around the world.

One spring six decades ago, in the ponds and marshes along a western arm of Lake Michigan, about 25 miles north of the city of Green Bay, Wis., the northern leopard frog Lithobates pipiens was busy breeding.

Culex pipiens comprises a complex of ecologically different forms that are morphologically indistinct.

Goldberg et al. (2000) reported an infection rate of 57 % (99 of 174 animals examined) in Channel Islands slender salamanders and recorded the following helminths: Mesocestoides sp. (a cestode) and Batracholandros salamandrae and Oswaldocruzia pipiens (both nematodes).

Now a study of the northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens), chosen partly for its handy size and wide availability, reveals how the frogs make their prodigious jumps despite relatively small muscles: They turn themselves into catapults.

A transmission from bird to mammal is unlikely, however, as long as mosquitoes such as the ornithophilic Culex pipiens f. pipens remain loyal to their respective source of blood.

Entomologists Walter Leal and Zainulabeuddin Syed of the University of California, Davis, wanted to know what lures Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus, better known as the southern house mosquito.

C. pipiens is the brand of mosquitoes responsible for transmitting West Nile virus to humans, pets, birds and other wildlife.

A new study discovers what plants Culex pipiens mosquitoes love and hate when it comes to where to lay eggs.

They focused on a complex of mosquitoes called Culex pipiens.

No more cases of this rare illness were detected after temperatures started dropping in September, rendering the climate inhospitable to the mosquito that transmits the disease, most likely a subspecies of Culex pipiens.

By far the most common ecological form collected was Culex pipiens f. pipiens.

The northern house mosquito Culex pipiens, representing more than 90 % of the total catch, was the most abundant.

However, the researchers do not expect the hybrid to show such a clear blood preference as the two common forms of Culex pipiens.

Culex pipiens, the northern house mosquito, is the most common mosquito in urban and suburban areas in North America.

In the early 1950s, Robert Briggs and Thomas King repeated Spemann's experiments using a species of leopard frog, Rana pipiens, first with a nucleus from young embryos (Briggs and King, 1952) then from older embryos (King and Briggs, 1954); both the younger and older implanted nuclei could still be reprogrammed by the enucleated host cell.

Dietary exposure to low pesticide doses causes long - term immunosuppression in the leopard frog (Rana pipiens).

Third, North American Culex pipiens mosquitoes, the dominant vector of WNV in the northeast and north - central United States, appear to be hybrids of the bird - biting «pipiens» form and human - feeding «molestus» form of Old World Cx.

More than 3,000 mosquito species exist worldwide, but if you live in the United States, you only need to be concerned with six of them: Yellow fever mosquito (also known as Aedes aegypti), carries Zika, chikungunya, and dengue; Asian tiger mosquito (a.k.a Aedes albopictus), which also carries Zika, chikungunya, and dengue; Northern house mosquito (a.k.a Culex pipiens), carries West Nile; and Culex tarsalis and Culex nigripalpus, which also carry West Nile.

On the other hand, even a small adult leopard frog (Rana pipiens) will badly bruise itself in anything less than a 50 - gallon tank, and bull frogs (Rana catesbiana) should have something even larger.

Case in point: A new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign that looks at how leaf litter in water influences the abundance of Culex pipiens mosquitoes.