Rockefeller University: What We Got Wrong About Mosquito Mating
October 30, 2025
October 30, 2025
NEW YORK, Oct. 30 -- Rockefeller University issued the following Q&A on Oct. 28, 2025, with Robin Chemers Neustein professor Leslie B. Vosshall and author Leah Houri-Zeevi:
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What we got wrong about mosquito mating
The female mosquito only mates once in her lifetime, and yet she can develop many hundreds of eggs from this single event. After each blood feeding, she draws from an internal sperm storage unit to inseminate her eggs, then lays them (abo . . .
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What we got wrong about mosquito mating
The female mosquito only mates once in her lifetime, and yet she can develop many hundreds of eggs from this single event. After each blood feeding, she draws from an internal sperm storage unit to inseminate her eggs, then lays them (abo . . .