Darker eggs resist more to desiccation: the case of melanin in Aedes, Anopheles and Culex mosquito vectors
L. C. Farnesi, H. C. M. Vargas, D. Valle, G. L. Rezende
The paper investigates how melanization in mosquito eggs affects desiccation resistance, finding that darker eggshells correlate with higher survival outside water.
bioRxiv · Feb 17, 2017Evolutionary Biology