Transgenic Anopheles gambiae expressing an antimalarial peptide suffer no significant fitness cost

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  McArthur, Clare C ^a   Meredith, Janet M ^a   Eggleston, Paul ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; HATCHING; IMAGO; INHERITANCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATERNAL INHERITANCE; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PUPATION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORELIMB; GENETICS; INSECT; LARVA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PEPTIDE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTIMALARIALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC FITNESS; LARVA; LONGEVITY; MALE; PEPTIDES; PUPA; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; WING;

EID: 84895512933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088625     Document Type: Article

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