Pythons changed the regimen of Everglades mosquitoes, investigators say

University of Florida investigators have further information showing invasive Burmese pythons decimating populations of local mammals in the Everglades. Entomology professor Nathan Burkett-Cadena led a team collecting Culex cedecei mosquitoes in Everglades National Park. Before pythons arrived, hispid cotton rats comprised about 15 % of the mosquitoes' diet. Burkett-Cadena tells rats This time make up three-quarters of the mosquitoes' regimen because pythons have eaten Extremely many other mammals. The mosquitoes could spread Everglades virus from rats.

Researchers: Pythons changed mosquito's regimen in Everglades

Skip in Skip x Embed x Share lock Burmese pythons are taking over the historic Everglades. WochitAn example of a Burmese python. (Photo: oxilixo, Getty Images/iStockphoto)MIAMI (AP) — University of Florida investigators have further information showing invasive Burmese pythons decimating populations of local mammals in the Everglades. Burkett-Cadena tells rats This time make up three-quarters of the mosquitoes' regimen because pythons have eaten Extremely many other mammals. The mosquitoes could spread Everglades virus from rats.

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as informed in Changes in human regimens are Extremely powerful which they could shape How we look. "What we've been enable to of do is look at what the worldwide relationship of regimen & skull or mandible shape is, & that's accounting for genetic relationships," Katz said. And the old-fashioned method to look at it would be looking at racial differences," said Robert Franciscus, a professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. "Human populations, regardless of diet, climate, & evolutionary history, continue tend to be Extremely similar to each other," Katz said. "When we talk about how different humans are around the world from each other, the cranium tells we're not all which different."

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