Insulin-Like Peptides and the Target of Rapamycin Pathway Coordinately Regulate Blood Digestion and Egg Maturation in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

BACKGROUND: Mosquitoes are insects that vector many serious pathogens to humans and other vertebrates. Most mosquitoes must feed on the blood of a vertebrate host to produce eggs. In turn, multiple cycles of blood feeding promote frequent contacts with hosts and make mosquitoes ideal disease vectors...

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Autores principales: Gulia-Nuss, Monika, Robertson, Anne E., Brown, Mark R., Strand, Michael R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21647424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020401

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21647424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020401

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