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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...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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| 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 |