Viral paratransgenesis in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Ren, Xiaoxia ^a,b   Hoiczyk, Egbert ^b   Rasgon, Jason L ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSOVIRUS; DISEASE CARRIER; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENICS; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; VIRAL PARATRANSGENESIS; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; LARVA; PATHOGENICITY; VIROLOGY;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BOMBYX MORI DENSOVIRUS; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DENSOVIRUS; GENETIC VECTORS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALARIA;

EID: 50849118144     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000135     Document Type: Article

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