Fine pathogen discrimination within the APL1 gene family protects Anopheles gambiae against human and rodent malaria species.
Genetically controlled resistance of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes to Plasmodium falciparum is a common trait in the natural population, and a cluster of natural resistance loci were mapped to the Plasmodium-Resistance Island (PRI) of the A. gambiae genome. The APL1 family of leucine-rich repeat (LRR...
Main Authors: | Christian Mitri, Jean-Claude Jacques, Isabelle Thiery, Michelle M Riehle, Jiannong Xu, Emmanuel Bischoff, Isabelle Morlais, Sandrine E Nsango, Kenneth D Vernick, Catherine Bourgouin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-09-01
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Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2734057?pdf=render |
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