Scanning electron microscopic observations on egg surface structure of mosquitoes in Korea

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Keimyung Medical Journal 1987;6(1):84-89.

문란표면상에 대한 주사전자현미경적 관찰 소견

주종윤; 서석권

Abstract

The egg surface structure of Aedes and Culex species collected in Korea is described and illustrated with the aid of a scanning electron microscope. Outer chorionic reticulum and tubercle can be seen on the shells and these features are characteristics for the species of mosquitoes. It was found that the size and distribution outer chorionic tubercles differ enormously between species of mosquitoes; and that the pictures of mosquito eggs obtained by scanning electron microscope are extremely useful in morphology and taxonomy.

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