Plants with bioactive properties are greatly useful in preventing and controlling blood-sucking and disease-vector invertebrates, particularly in developing countries and low-income communities. Their application is a...
This study was funded by the Universiti Sains Malaysia Research University Grant(1001/PBIOLOGI/8011604);MOSTI Science-Fund(305/PBIOLOGI/613238).
The Southern house mosquito,Culex quinquefasciatus(Cx.quinquefasciatus)is an important vector that transmit multiple diseases including West Nile encephalitis,Japanese encephalitis,St.Louis encephalitis and lymphatic ...
Myogenic contractions of the heart of the female blood-feeding insect, Rhodnius prolixus (Stal), are inhibited by crude extracts of testes applied directly to isolated dorsal vessels. Dorsal vessels were observed wi...