Journal: Insects
Article Title: Colonization and Authentication of the Pyrethroid-Resistant Anopheles gambiae s.s. Muleba-Kis Strain; an Important Test System for Laboratory Screening of New Insecticides
doi: 10.3390/insects12080710
Figure Lengend Snippet: Image of wing aligned on a micrometer indicating the ocular gradations which correspond to the distance on the stage micrometer. Number 1–5 indicates the wing veins, where vein 3 is used for measuring the distance from the alula to the wing fringe (wing length). This photo was copied from PAMVERC Test Facility SOP with permission, originally taken and donated by MK (co-author).
Article Snippet: Wing length was measured as the distance from the alula to the end of the wing where vein three ends [ , , ] using an ocular micrometer at 2X objective magnification on a Nikon stereomicroscope, Model; SMZ 645 [Nikon Instruments, 1300 Walt Whitman Road, Melville, NY 11747-3064, U.S.A.], see below.
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