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Spatial and sex-specific dissection of the Anopheles gambiae midgut transcriptome
29 Jan 2007
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BACKGROUND: The midgut of hematophagous insects, such as disease transmitting mosquitoes, carries out a variety of essential functions that mostly relate to blood feeding. The midgut of the female malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae is a major site of interactions between the parasite and the vector. Distinct compartments and cell types of the midgut tissue carry out specific functions and vector borne...
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