A Method of Tagging Prairie Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) with Radio-Phosphorus

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Authors: Shemanchuk, J. A., Spinks, J. W. T., Fredeen, F. J. H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1953
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Arctic; Geiger; Thurman
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent85269-7; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00101816

Bugher and Taylor (1949) and Hassett and Jenkins (1949) reared highly radio-active adults of Aedes aegypti (L.) from larvae kept in a solution of radioactive phosphorus. Jenkins and Hassett (1949) obtained radio-active adults of Aedes pullatus (Coq.) and Aedes excrucians (Wlk.) with an average radio...