Aquaporin water channel AgAQP1 in the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae during blood feeding and humidity adaptation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6062-6066

  Liu, Kun ^a   Tsujimoto, Hitoshi ^a   Cha, Sung Jae ^a   Agre, Peter ^a   Rasgon, Jason L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Desiccation resistance; Plasmodium vector borne disease; Water homeostasis

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 1; MERCURY CHLORIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TETRYLAMMONIUM; TYROSINE DERIVATIVE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; BLOOD FEEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FAT BODY; FEEDING; FEMALE; GENOME; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMIDITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTESTINE; MALARIA; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; STELLATE CELL; SUCKING; SURVIVAL TIME; UPREGULATION; WATER FLOW; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 79955021124     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102629108     Document Type: Article

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