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Transmitting parasites from person to person, the blood-feeding mosquito is the crucial link in the malaria cycle. Explore research into mosquito genetics, the rise of insecticide resistance that has so hampered attempts at control, and attempts to combat this most dangerous of vectors.

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Charles Mbogo in Kenya aims to understand the ecology of mosquito vectors and how that influences the transmission of malaria. 01/11/02
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Some of the key weapons in the fight against mosquitoes – insecticides – have become almost useless as the insects gain resistance to the chemicals. Janet Hemingway is investigating why. 03/10/02
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Janet Hemingway is developing new ways to tackle insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. 03/10/02
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One of the more audacious attempts at controlling malaria involves genetically modifying mosquitoes, turning them into 'flying bednets'. 02/10/02
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How mosquitoes learn to associate odours with their human hosts to bite or with their preferred egg-laying places to lay their eggs is almost unknown at present. Philip McCall hopes to find out. 01/10/02
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In 1897, Ronald Ross discovered malarial parasites in mosquitoes. Mary Gibson examines the events surrounding this seminal discovery. 28/09/97
There are more than 2500 species of mosquito, although only a minority feed on human blood.
               
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