Study shows how mosquitoes handle the heat of a hot blood meal

Monday, April 25, 2011 - 15:00 in Health & Medicine

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Mosquitoes make proteins to help them handle the stressful spike in body temperature that's prompted by their hot blood meals, a new study has found. The mosquito's eating pattern is inherently risky: Taking a blood meal invol...

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