Silencing of the Hsf gene, the transcriptional regulator of A. Gambiae male accessory glands, inhibits the formation of the mating plug in mated females and disrupts their monogamous behaviour

Pathogens and Global Health

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 405-412

  Dottorini, Tania ^a   Persampieri, Tania ^b   Palladino, Pietro ^b   Spaccapelo, Roberta ^b   Crisanti, Andrea ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; Fertility; Malaria; Mating plug; Post mating behaviour; Receptivity to remating; Reproductive biology; Vector control

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HSF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84871287672     PISSN: 20477724     EISSN: 20477732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2047773212Y.0000000058     Document Type: Article

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