Robyn Raban and Omar Akbari describe a day in the life of the mosquito insectary team at the University of California, San Diego, outlining the procedures, goals, and types of systems they are engineering to control mosquito-transmitted diseases.
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Raban, R.R., Akbari, O.S. A day in the life of a mosquito insectary team: pushing for solutions to mosquito-borne diseases. Lab Anim 49, 241–243 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-020-0617-y
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