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Hydric stress-dependent effects of Plasmodium falciparum infection on the survival of wild-caught Anopheles gambiae female mosquitoes

BACKGROUND: Whether Plasmodium falciparum, the agent of human malaria responsible for over a million deaths per year, causes fitness costs in its mosquito vectors is a burning question that has not yet been adequately resolved. Understanding the evolutionary forces responsible for the maintenance of...

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Autores principales: Aboagye-Antwi, Fred, Guindo, Amadou, Traoré, Amadou S, Hurd, Hilary, Coulibaly, Mamadou, Traoré, Sékou, Tripet, Frédéric
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20796288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-243