Use of oven-dried blood for in vitro feeding of tsetse flies |
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Authors: | J. P. Kabayo M. Taher H. Barnor |
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Affiliation: | (1) Entomology Unit, Joint FAO/IAEA Programme, Agency's Laboratories, A-2444 Seibersdorf, (Austria) |
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Abstract: | Summary Comparison of the survival, fecundity and offspring size ofGlossina palpalis palpalis females fed reconstituted over-dried blood, fresh, frozen/thawed, or reconstituted freeze-dried blood showed that oven-drying at 45°C does not diminish the nutritional quality of blood. The significance of this finding is discussed with a view to optimizing costs and conditions of blood-diet storage and transportation in the context of mass-rearing of tsetse flies. |
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Keywords: | Tsetse flies blood feeding oven-dried blood mass-rearing |
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