A novel video-tracking system to quantify the behaviour of nocturnal mosquitoes attacking human hosts in the field
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 9251
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1098/rsif.2015.0974
- Title of journal
- Journal Royal Society Interface
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- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 117
- ISSN
- 1742-5689
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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7
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Reports the first technique to deliver in-vivo tracking data from the malaria mosquito (anopheles gambiae). This data revealed a new behaviour affecting disease transmission. These breakthroughs led to three major research grants: to extend the method to 3D tracking over the entire interior of a sub-Saharan dwelling (MRC MR/M011941/1 £1.1M), to apply the methodology to diurnal Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes responsible for Zika transmission (Centre for Disease Control USA, $521k) and to develop potential intervention strategies (MRC MR/T001267/1 £634k). Nature reported on the publication as a Research Highlight (Nature 532: 284, 21st April 2016).
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- Non-English
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