Activation of akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in anopheles stephensi mosquitoes

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Corby Harris, Vanessa ^a   Drexler, Anna ^b   de Jong, Laurel Watkins ^a   Antonova, Yevgeniya ^a   Pakpour, Nazzy ^b   Ziegler, Rolf ^a   Ramberg, Frank ^a   Lewis, Edwin E ^c   Brown, Jessica M ^a   Luckhart, Shirley ^b   Riehle, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOSITY; LIFESPAN; MALARIA; MIDGUT; MYRISTYLATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; PREVALENCE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77957686131     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001003     Document Type: Article

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