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Rodent malaria-resistant strains of the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, have slower population growth than -susceptible strains

BACKGROUND: Trade-offs between anti-parasite defence mechanisms and other life history traits limit the evolution of host resistance to parasites and have important implications for understanding diseases such as malaria. Mosquitoes have not evolved complete resistance to malaria parasites and one h...

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Autores principales: Voordouw, Maarten J, Anholt, Bradley R, Taylor, Pam J, Hurd, Hilary
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2675531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19379508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-76