Increased blood meal size and feeding frequency compromise Aedes aegypti midgut integrity and enhance dengue virus dissemination

• Rebecca M. Johnson,

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

  Affiliation Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Entomology, Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Duncan W. Cozens,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Entomology, Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Zannatul Ferdous,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Entomology, Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Philip M. Armstrong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Entomology, Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Doug E. Brackney

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Doug.Brackney@ct.gov

  Affiliation Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Entomology, Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6486-3134

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