An alternative focus in strategic research on disease vectors: The potential of genetically modified non-biting mosquitoes

Parassitologia

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 131-135

  Coluzzi, M ^a   Costantini, C ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genetic transformation; Mosquitoes; Obligate autogeny; Refractoriness to pathogens; Vector replacement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE CARRIER; EGG LAYING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INSECT VECTORS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; OVIPOSITION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0038654277     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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