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Nature or nurture in mosquito resistance to malaria?

The genetic basis of mosquito resistance to malaria parasites is well established and currently receives a lot of attention. However this is not the sole determinant of the success or failure of an infection. In a recent article, Lambrechts and colleagues report the influence of the quality of the e...

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Autor principal: Hurd, Hilary
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17276733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2007.01.011
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description The genetic basis of mosquito resistance to malaria parasites is well established and currently receives a lot of attention. However this is not the sole determinant of the success or failure of an infection. In a recent article, Lambrechts and colleagues report the influence of the quality of the external environment of a mosquito on infection. They indicate that external variations could substantially reduce the importance of resistance genes in determining infection by malaria parasites. Furthermore, these variations could influence future plans to use malaria-resistant transgenic mosquitoes to control parasite transmission.
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spelling pubmed-24746622008-07-17 Nature or nurture in mosquito resistance to malaria? Hurd, Hilary Trends Parasitol Update

Research Focus The genetic basis of mosquito resistance to malaria parasites is well established and currently receives a lot of attention. However this is not the sole determinant of the success or failure of an infection. In a recent article, Lambrechts and colleagues report the influence of the quality of the external environment of a mosquito on infection. They indicate that external variations could substantially reduce the importance of resistance genes in determining infection by malaria parasites. Furthermore, these variations could influence future plans to use malaria-resistant transgenic mosquitoes to control parasite transmission. Elsevier Science 2007-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2474662/ /pubmed/17276733 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2007.01.011 Text en © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Open Access under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) license
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Hurd, Hilary
Nature or nurture in mosquito resistance to malaria?
title Nature or nurture in mosquito resistance to malaria?
title_full Nature or nurture in mosquito resistance to malaria?
title_fullStr Nature or nurture in mosquito resistance to malaria?
title_full_unstemmed Nature or nurture in mosquito resistance to malaria?
title_short Nature or nurture in mosquito resistance to malaria?
title_sort nature or nurture in mosquito resistance to malaria?
topic Update

Research Focus
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17276733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2007.01.011
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