Bacteria- and IMD Pathway-Independent Immune Defenses against Plasmodium falciparum in Anopheles gambiae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Blumberg, Benjamin J ^a   Trop, Stefanie ^a   Das, Suchismita ^a   Dimopoulos, George ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN PLUS STREPTOMYCIN; PROTEIN CLIPC2; PROTEIN SRPN7; RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROFLORA; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVERSE GENETICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84883389437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072130     Document Type: Article

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