Abstract
SummaryThe free amino acids of adult, female mosquitoes (Culex pipiens, Culex quinquejasciatus, Culex salinarius, Aedes aegypti, Aedes sollicitans, Culiseta inornata and Anopheles quadrimaculatus) were extracted with ethanol and identified by paper chromatography. Extracts of all species of mosquitoes contained 18 amino acids: Alanine, glutamic acid; beta-alanine, isoleucine, leucine, taurine, proline, histidine, serine, valine, methionine, threonine, lysine, arginine, aspartic acid, glycine, tyrosine and tryptophan.Extracts of C. quinquejasciatus and A. aegypti exhibited relatively larger amounts of most amino acids than those of A. quadrimaculatus as indicated by the size and intensity of spots on the ehromatograms. Such differences between 3 species of Culex mosquitoes and 2 species of Aedes were practically negligible.
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