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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2011 Sep 29;41(12):946–955. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2011.09.004

Figure 5.

Figure 5

A deficiency in ACC disrupts egg development in the 1st gonotrophic cycle. A) Representative photographs of oviposited eggs from blood fed mosquitoes injected 3 days prior to feeding with dsRNA encoding Fluc (dsFluc) or ACC (dsACC) sequences. Top panel shows eggs collected within 1 hr of oviposition and bottom panels shows the same eggs 3 hrs later. Untanned eggs oviposited by ACC deficient mosquitoes were found to be inviable (data not shown). B) High magnification photograph of representative eggs from mosquitoes injected with 1.0 μg of dsFluc, dsACC, and dsFAS1 RNA at 3 days prior to blood feeding. The eggs were photographed 4 hrs after oviposition. Bar scale is equal to 0.2 mm.