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Unlocking the heat in mosquito modeling: Exploring disease transmission under climate change
In the case of mosquitoes, these traits can determine their risk of transmitting mosquito-borne diseases and how this risk might change in the future as they respond to climate warming.
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Mosquitoes Adapt to a Warming Environment
They collected mosquito larvae from various tree holes in California and let the insects reproduce for two generations in the lab. For the third generation, they turned up the heat. While they exposed ...