Light Pollution Disrupts Seasonal Differences in the Daily Activity and Metabolic Profiles of the Northern House Mosquito, Culex pipiens
Abstract
:Simple Summary
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Insect Rearing
2.2. Fly Box Construction
2.3. Measuring Locomotor Activity
2.4. Metabolic Assays
2.5. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Survival
3.2. Activity Analysis
3.3. Circadian Periodicity
3.4. Metabolic Analysis
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Wolkoff, M.; Fyie, L.; Meuti, M. Light Pollution Disrupts Seasonal Differences in the Daily Activity and Metabolic Profiles of the Northern House Mosquito, Culex pipiens. Insects 2023, 14, 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14010064
Wolkoff M, Fyie L, Meuti M. Light Pollution Disrupts Seasonal Differences in the Daily Activity and Metabolic Profiles of the Northern House Mosquito, Culex pipiens. Insects. 2023; 14(1):64. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14010064
Chicago/Turabian StyleWolkoff, Matthew, Lydia Fyie, and Megan Meuti. 2023. "Light Pollution Disrupts Seasonal Differences in the Daily Activity and Metabolic Profiles of the Northern House Mosquito, Culex pipiens" Insects 14, no. 1: 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14010064