Mosquitoes Trade Fertility for Immune Defense against Malaria

A study of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes shows that a molecule involved in defense against the malaria parasite also plays a role in male fertility, identifying a potential evolutionary trade-off between immunity and reproductive fitness. Read the Research Article.

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Autor principal: Sedwick, Caitlin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26394127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002256
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spelling pubmed-45790732015-10-01 Mosquitoes Trade Fertility for Immune Defense against Malaria Sedwick, Caitlin PLoS Biol Synopsis A study of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes shows that a molecule involved in defense against the malaria parasite also plays a role in male fertility, identifying a potential evolutionary trade-off between immunity and reproductive fitness. Read the Research Article. Public Library of Science 2015-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4579073/ /pubmed/26394127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002256 Text en © 2015 Caitlin Sedwick http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title Mosquitoes Trade Fertility for Immune Defense against Malaria
title_full Mosquitoes Trade Fertility for Immune Defense against Malaria
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title_full_unstemmed Mosquitoes Trade Fertility for Immune Defense against Malaria
title_short Mosquitoes Trade Fertility for Immune Defense against Malaria
title_sort mosquitoes trade fertility for immune defense against malaria
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26394127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002256
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