A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved ...

For decades, Culex pipiens f. molestus was called the “London Underground Mosquito”. Most people, including scientists, ...

Genetic analysis suggests a form of mosquito found in urban subway systems evolved in the Middle East thousands of years ago ...

West Nile virus belongs to the flavivirus family of viruses. It is transmitted principally by Culex mosquitoes. Birds are the reservoir for the virus and mosquitoes acquire the virus when they feed on ...

Likewise, UC postdoctoral fellow and study co-author Oluwaseun Ajayi said mosquitoes such as the species Culex, which is found around the world, can tolerate cold temperatures, too. "They have the ...

Mosquitoes in the Emirates are becoming resistant to a key insecticide according to researchers at UAE University in Al Ain.

UC postdoctoral researcher Christopher Holmes led a study examining how two species of mosquito ... coauthor Oluwaseun Ajayi said mosquitoes in the genus Culex, which are found around the world ...

Faced with a new mosquito species that could transmit disease in Minnesota, state health and mosquito control officials are urging residents to rid their property of water-holding containers. The ...

Culex molestus, the London Underground mosquito, has been extensively studied as an example of people driving the evolution and emergence of new species. The mosquito has in recent years come to ...

Nairobi consists of the Culex mosquito, which is harmless ... of the existent breeding grounds,” he said. “Each mosquito species has unique environmental resilience limits, depending ...