Analysing the oviposition behaviour of malaria mosquitoes: design considerations for improving two-choice egg count experiments

摘要

BackgroundChoice egg-count bioassays are a popular tool for analysing oviposition substrate preferences of gravid mosquitoes. This study aimed at improving the design of two-choice experiments for measuring oviposition substrates preferences of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae senso lato, a mosquito that lays single eggs.