Availability of Anopheles homogenate for metabolomic profiling

[HermeticHeretic]

Hi,

I'm a graduate biomedical scientist, and have decided to pursue research, with malaria being my passion.

I've been looking at various metabolites that are responsible for gametogenesis in vivo, within the Anopheles mosquito. I initially had theories about testing the metabolomic profiles of many known and possible vectors, including Anopheles, Culex, Mansonia and Aedes. However, I was advised by an entomologist that this would be difficult to acquire a lot of specimens of these species, since most Australian entomology labs aren't set up for malaria related studies. There is also the issue of bringing in potentially dangerous organisms to a very ecologically fragile continent such as Australia. After looking at various foreign insect breeders online, they stress that they cannot send live specimens overseas.

So, instead of breeding the mosquitos in Australia, is it more feasible to obtain mosquito homogenates from overseas, and analyse them here with LCMS?