Clock genes regulate mating activity rhythms in the vector mosquitoes, Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus

• Shuang Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shuang Liu, Jiayong Zhou, Ling Kong

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Jiayong Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shuang Liu, Jiayong Zhou, Ling Kong

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Ling Kong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shuang Liu, Jiayong Zhou, Ling Kong

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Yiquan Cai,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Hongkai Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Zhensheng Xie,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Xiaolin Xiao,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Anthony A. James,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine California, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine California, United States of America

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• Xiao-Guang Chen

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

  * E-mail: xgchen@smu.edu.cn.

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7927-691X

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