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. 2020 Sep 22;9:e56829. doi: 10.7554/eLife.56829

Video 8. The abdomen of an Ae. aegypti female expands dramatically during blood feeding.

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Fitting an active contour model to the mosquito body (after computationally removing appendages) provides the abdomen width (and other shape parameters) which can be used to estimate engorgement status.