The Major Yolk Protein Vitellogenin Interferes with the Anti-Plasmodium Response in the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

When taking a blood meal on a person infected with malaria, female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the major vector of human malaria, acquire nutrients that will activate egg development (oogenesis) in their ovaries. Simultaneously, they infect themselves with the malaria parasite. On traversing the m...

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Autores principales: Rono, Martin K., Whitten, Miranda M. A., Oulad-Abdelghani, Mustapha, Levashina, Elena A., Marois, Eric
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20652016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000434

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