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	Reliability of egg rafts electron micrographs for confirming the taxonomic status of Culex pipiens mosquitoes collected from Al-Ahsa, eastern Saudi Arabia
	Shaalan, E. A.1; Bekhet, G. Z.2,3; Abdelmoaty, Z.2,3; Ahmad, N. W.4
通讯作者	Shaalan, E. A.
来源期刊	TROPICAL BIOMEDICINE
ISSN	0127-5720
出版年	2019
卷号	36 期号:1 页码:224-233
英文摘要	Mosquitoes are undesirable arthropods transmitting many diseases not only in Saudi Arabia but also worldwide. Identifying mosquito species relied for long time on both larval and adult characters whilst little or no attention was given to eggs. Electron microscopic studies of mosquito eggs are important as it is not only characterizing the external morphology of the eggs never seen by stereoscopic microscopes but also facilitates mosquito species identification. Accordingly, morphology and morphometric of Culex pipiens eggs collected from AI-Ahsa oasis, eastern Saudi Arabia were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) for the first time in Saudi Arabia in the present work. Mosquito egg rafts were collected from breeding sites in AI-Ahsa by using of special long aquatic net. A portion of the rafts was reared for identification whilst the other portion was preserved in glutaraldehyde and prepared for SEM examination. Eggs appeared to be conical in shape with two ends, the anterior one that is represented with the micropyle is more tapered than the posterior end. The morphometrics gave many characteristics for the eggs such as length, width, proportion of length /width and so on. Eggs morphology and morphometrics were then compared to that of other Culex eggs. Our findings using SEM of the eggshell confirmed that the present mosquito species is Cx. pipiens. Scanning electron micrographs of any mosquito species eggs are valuable in correlating its fine structure that cannot be easily seen by light microscope and can assist in species separation. Thus, identifying medically important mosquito species is crucial in both mosquito and disease control.
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Egypt ; Saudi Arabia ; Malaysia
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000462927500022
WOS关键词	DIPTERA-CULICIDAE ; FINE-STRUCTURE ; MICROSCOPY ; MORPHOLOGY ; TRITAENIORHYNCHUS ; ULTRASTRUCTURE ; MORPHOMETRICS ; FILARIASIS ; VECTORS ; LUTZ
WOS类目	Parasitology ; Tropical Medicine
WOS研究方向	Parasitology ; Tropical Medicine
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/219132
作者单位	1.Aswan Univ, Zool Dept, Fac Sci, Aswan 81528, Egypt; 2.King Faisal Univ, Biol Sci Dept, Fac Sci, Al Hasa 31982, Saudi Arabia; 3.Alexandria Univ, Fac Sci, Zool Dept, Alexandria 21526, Egypt; 4.Inst Med Res, Med Entomol Unit, Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur 50588, Malaysia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shaalan, E. A.,Bekhet, G. Z.,Abdelmoaty, Z.,et al. Reliability of egg rafts electron micrographs for confirming the taxonomic status of Culex pipiens mosquitoes collected from Al-Ahsa, eastern Saudi Arabia[J],2019,36(1):224-233.
APA	Shaalan, E. A.,Bekhet, G. Z.,Abdelmoaty, Z.,&Ahmad, N. W..(2019).Reliability of egg rafts electron micrographs for confirming the taxonomic status of Culex pipiens mosquitoes collected from Al-Ahsa, eastern Saudi Arabia.TROPICAL BIOMEDICINE,36(1),224-233.
MLA	Shaalan, E. A.,et al."Reliability of egg rafts electron micrographs for confirming the taxonomic status of Culex pipiens mosquitoes collected from Al-Ahsa, eastern Saudi Arabia".TROPICAL BIOMEDICINE 36.1(2019):224-233.