Reproduction as the Mosquito’s “Achilles Heel”
![This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. (James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)](https://blogs.cornell.edu/onehealth/files/mosquito-1mpn8ht-300x198.jpg)
Cornell entomology professor Laura Harrington and molecular biology and genetics professor Mariana Wolfner are studying the mosquito mating process in hopes of discovering a way to control mosquito reproduction. Researchers believe that it could be possible to block a female mosquito’s ability to reproduce, which would provide a new way to fight Zika virus, dengue fever, chikungunya and other mosquito-borne diseases.
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