Joash Makalani Lake
The aim of this project was to determine if supplementing human blood with methionine would affect life history traits of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. We fed mosquitoes either human blood, or human blood supplemented with low or high methionine. We tracked the survival, number of eggs laid and the proportion of larvae that hatched following the blood-feeding treatments. The data demonstrated that supplementing with methionine had little effects on survival or fecundity of mosquitoes.
Major:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Exhibition Category:
Health and Life Sciences
Exhibition Format:
Poster Presentation
Campus:
University Park
Faculty Sponsor:
Andrew Read , Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology and Eberly Professor of Biotechnology
Poster Number:
281