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Species-specific chemosensory gene expression in the olfactory organs of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae

BACKGROUND: The malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae has a high preference for human hosts, a characteristic that contributes greatly to its capacity for transmitting human malaria. A sibling species, An. quadriannulatus, has a quite different host preference and feeds mostly on bovids. For this reaso...

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Autores principales: Hodges, Theresa K, Cosme, Luciano V, Athrey, Giridhar, Pathikonda, Sharmila, Takken, Willem, Slotman, Michel A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25495232
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-1089