Cooper, Anastasia M. W.
Osborne, Cameron J.
Pickens, Victoria
Pfeiffer, Kaitlin
Jameson, Samuel B.
da Silva, Anderson Rodrigo
Reif, Kathryn E.
Mitzel, Dana N.
Silver, Kristopher
Funding for this research was provided by:
US Department of Agriculture (58-3022-4-034, 58-3022-0-002)
National Science Foundation (DBI – 2304787)
Hatch Multistate Project (NE1943)
Article History
Received: 6 January 2025
Accepted: 14 June 2025
First Online: 7 July 2025
Declarations
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: This study received ethical approval from the Kansas State University Institutional Review Board (approval no. 10729) on 13 April 2022, and from the Kansas State University Institutional Biosafety Committee (approval no. 1559) on 30 June 2021. A written consent form was furnished to human research subjects for review and signature before starting EPG experiments. Dissection of insects possibly containing human blood was performed under Biosafety Level 2 containment.
: This manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form.
: The authors declare no competing interests.