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Plasmodium development in white-eye (kh(w)) and transformed strains (kh43) of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae).
Journal of medical entomology - 1 Mar 2006
Beerntsen Brenda T, Li Jianyong
Abstract excerpt
Xanthurenic acid (XA) has been implicated as an inducer in vivo of exflagellation in Plasmodium spp. Consequently, the development of Plasmodium gallinaceum was assessed in a white-eye mosquito strain, kh(w), of Aedes aegypti (L.), which is deficient in XA because of a mutation of the gene encoding the enzyme kynurenine hydroxylase, and in a transformed line of kh(w) mosquitoes that carry the wild-type cn+ gene...
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