Biting rhythm and demographic attributes of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) females from different urbanized settings in Penang Island, Malaysia under uncontrolled laboratory conditions

Nor Atikah Farhah Muhammad; Nur Faeza Abu Kassim; Abdul Hafiz Ab Majid; Azimah Abd Rahman; Hamady Dieng; Silas Wintuma Avicor

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0241688

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Biting rhythm and demographic attributes of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) females from different urbanized settings in Penang Island, Malaysia under uncontrolled laboratory conditions

Nor Atikah Farhah Muhammad,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia
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Nur Faeza Abu Kassim ,

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

* E-mail: nurfaeza@usm.my

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia, Vector Control Research Unit, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6620-8603

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Abdul Hafiz Ab Majid,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia, Household and Structural Urban Entomology Laboratory, Vector Control Research Unit (VCRU), School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5297-8981

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Azimah Abd Rahman,

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Visualization

Affiliation School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia
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Hamady Dieng,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (IBEC), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Silas Wintuma Avicor

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Entomology Division, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), New Tafo-Akim, Eastern Region, Ghana
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Biting rhythm and demographic attributes of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) females from different urbanized settings in Penang Island, Malaysia under uncontrolled laboratory conditions

Nor Atikah Farhah Muhammad,
Nur Faeza Abu Kassim,
Abdul Hafiz Ab Majid,
Azimah Abd Rahman,
Hamady Dieng,
Silas Wintuma Avicor

Published: November 11, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241688

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