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close-range mating

Want to mate? Show up at the right place and sing well.

This week (1-5 Feb, 2010), scientists are meeting at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria to present recent developments and plan future research in male mosquito biology.

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Report: “Singing on the Wing” as a Mechanism for Species Recognition in the Malarial Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

Author(s): 
Cédric Pennetier, Ben Warren, K. Roch Dabiré, Ian J. Russell, and Gabriella Gibson
Reference: 
Current Biology, Volume 20, Issue 2, 26 January 2010, Pages 131-136
Contact email: 
i.j.russell@sussex.ac.uk

This is the first description of close-range mating interactions in incipient An. gambiae species.

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