Natural plant sugar sources of Anopheles mosquitoes strongly impact malaria transmission potential

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gu, Weidong ^a   Müller, Günter ^b   Schlein, Yosef ^b   Novak, Robert J ^a   Beier, John C ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUGAR;

ACACIA; ACACIA RADDIANA; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES SERGENTII; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEMALE; INCUBATION TIME; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLANT TISSUE; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT;

ACACIA RADDIANA; ANOPHELES (GENUS); ANOPHELES SERGENTII;

ACACIA; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79251622711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015996     Document Type: Article

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