Infection intensity-dependent responses of Anopheles gambiae to the African malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4708-4715

  Mendes, Antonio M ^a   Awono Ambene, Parfait H ^b   Nsango, Sandrine E ^b   Cohuet, Anna ^c,d   Fontenille, Didier ^c   Kafatos, Fotis C ^a   Christophides, George K ^a   Morlais, Isabelle ^b,c   Vlachou, Dina ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme Yaounde   (Cameroon)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 80855157066     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05647-11     Document Type: Article

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