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Fig. 5

From: New "light" for one-world approach toward safe and effective control of animal diseases and insect vectors from leishmaniac perspectives

Fig. 5

Uptake of rose bengal by selected insects and their photo-inactivation. a Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus 4th instar larvae exposed to rose Bengal (10 ug/ml) (~20 larvae/5 ml water/well in 6-well plate) in dark for ~24 hours followed by exposure to white light for ~6 h at ~2500 lux; b-c Phlebotomus duboscqi female (b) and male (c) adult flies (~20 flies/screened paper cup) fed with 5 % sucrose solution and 500 ul of 5 mg/ml rose bengal in a cotton ball for ~20 h in the dark followed by exposure to ~2500 lux of white light for 3 h. Duplicate samples were prepared and kept in the dark as controls. Rose bengal is taken up by the flies of both sexes. Phototoxicity is evident for the mosquito larvae, but inconclusive for the flies. The tests were done in Petr Volf’s lab

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