Solute carriers affect Anopheles stephensi survival and Plasmodium berghei infection in the salivary glands

Abstract Malaria is caused by mosquito-borne Plasmodium spp. parasites that must infect and survive within mosquito salivary glands (SGs) prior to host transmission. Recent advances in transcriptomics and the complete genome sequencing of mosquito vectors have increased our knowledge of the SG genes...

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Main Authors: J. Couto, S. Antunes, R. Pinheiro-Silva, V. do Rosário, J. de la Fuente, A. Domingos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06317-6