Sugar digestion in mosquitoes: Identification and characterization of three midgut α-glucosidases of the neo-tropical malaria vector Anopheles aquasalis (Diptera: Culicidae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 993-1000

  Souza Neto, Jayme A ^a   Machado, Fábio P ^a   Lima, José B ^b   Valle, Denise ^b   Ribolla, Paulo E M ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anopheles aquasalis; Digestion; Malaria; Midgut; Mosquito; Sucrose; Survivorship; Glucosidase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; POLYPEPTIDE; SUGAR;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES AQUASALIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; FEMALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PH;

ANOPHELES AQUASALIS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 34249817106     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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