Enhanced Survival of Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes during Starvation

Plasmodium spp. are pathogenic to their vertebrate hosts and also apparently, impose a fitness cost on their insect vectors. We show here, however, that Plasmodium-infected mosquitoes survive starvation significantly better than uninfected mosquitoes. This survival advantage during starvation is ass...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Yang O., Kurscheid, Sebastian, Zhang, Yue, Liu, Lei, Zhang, Lili, Loeliger, Kelsey, Fikrig, Erol
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040556

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040556

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