Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes bite humans to obtain blood to develop their eggs.
Remarkably, their strong attraction to humans is suppressed for days after the blood meal by an …

Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes require protein from blood to develop eggs. They have
evolved a strong innate drive to find and bite humans and engorge on their blood. Decades of …

Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes typically mate only once with one male in their lifetime, a
behavior known as "monandry" [1]. This single mating event provisions the female with …

The neuropeptide Pigment Dispersing Factor (PDF) is essential for normal circadian function
in Drosophila. It synchronizes the phases of M pacemakers, while in E pacemakers it …

The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is one of the most dangerous invasive species
in the world. Females bite hosts, including humans, to obtain blood for egg development. The …

The neuropeptide PDF promotes the normal sequencing of circadian behavioral rhythms in
Drosophila, but its signaling mechanisms are not well understood. We report daily …

Females of certain mosquito species can spread diseases while biting vertebrate hosts to
obtain protein-rich blood meals required for egg development. In the laboratory, researchers …

… We thank the reviewers and members of the Duvall Lab for their critical comments on the
manuscript. We thank Lauren Subramaniam and Candace Cochran for their assistance in …

We used real-time imaging to detect cAMP levels in neurons of intact fly brains to study the
mechanisms of circadian pacemaker synchronization by the neuropeptide pigment …

… For bacterial chemotaxis assays, 20 μl of either LB medium, or OP50 bacterial suspension
grown overnight and diluted in LB medium to an optical density (OD) at 600 nm of 1.0, was …