Wolbachia infections in natural Anopheles populations affect egg laying and negatively correlate with Plasmodium development

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Shaw, W Robert ^a   Marcenac, Perrine ^a   Childs, Lauren M ^a   Buckee, Caroline O ^a   Baldini, Francesco ^b   Sawadogo, Simon P ^c   Dabiré, Roch K ^c   Diabaté, Abdoulaye ^c   Catteruccia, Flaminia ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE MURAZ   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; EGG; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INSECT; MOSQUITO; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES COLUZZII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BURKINA FASO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; MALARIA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; WOLBACHIA INFECTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MATERNAL INHERITANCE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION; WOLBACHIA;

BURKINA FASO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM PARASITES; PROTEOBACTERIA; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BURKINA FASO; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MALARIA; MALE; MATERNAL INHERITANCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOSQUITO VECTORS; OVIPOSITION; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84973380349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11772     Document Type: Article

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