Survival rate, blood feeding habits and sibling species composition of Aedes simpsoni complex: Implications for arbovirus transmission risk in East Africa

• Winnie W. Kamau,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8890-6277

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• Rosemary Sang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, Center for Virus Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Edwin O. Ogola,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4415-8366

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• Gilbert Rotich,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Caroline Getugi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-9492

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• Sheila B. Agha,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5480-6865

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• Nelson Menza,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Baldwyn Torto,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5080-9903

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• David P. Tchouassi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dtchouassi@icipe.org

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-4704

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