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Press photos available for download
These images are approx. 2MB JPEGs.
Click on the link beside each image for a full sized version.
For permission to use any of these images and also obtain high resolution copies please contact Louise Crane.
Please credit all photos to Hugh Sturrock. To see Hugh's award winning photograph of a mosquito in flight (Wellcome Trust Biomedial Image Award 2006) click here.
Images:
Fungus-killed mosquito held in tweezers (1.2MB.)
Technical: Mosquitoes = Anopheles stephensi, dead for 48 hours with sporulating fungus = Beauveria bassiana.
Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus
Top: freshly fed Anopheles, Middle: mosquito killed by fungus 12 hours earlier, Bottom: mosquito killed by fungus 24 hours.
Technical: Mosquitoes = Anopheles stephensi; fungus = Beauveria bassiana , sporulating.
Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus (2.1MB.)
Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus
Top: freshly fed Anopheles, Middle: mosquito killed by fungus 24 hours earlier, Bottom: mosquito killed by fungus 48 hours.
Technical: Mosquitoes = Anopheles stephensi; fungus = Beauveria bassiana, sporulating.
Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus (2.2MB.)