Identification of xanthurenic acid as the putative inducer of malaria development in the mosquito

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6673, 1998, Pages 289-292

  Billker, O ^a   Lindo, V ^a   Panico, M ^a   Etienne, A E ^a   Paxton, T ^a   Dell, A ^a   Rogers, M ^b   Sinden, R E ^a   Morris, H R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b M Scan Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XANTHURENIC ACID;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GAMETOGENESIS; GENOTYPE; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; XANTHURENATES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032546376     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32667     Document Type: Article

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