An In Vivo Transfection Approach Elucidates a Role for Aedes aegypti Thioester-Containing Proteins in Flaviviral Infection

Abstract excerpt

Mosquitoes transmit pathogens that cause infectious diseases of global importance. Techniques to easily introduce genes into mosquitoes, however, limit investigations of the interaction between microbes and their arthropod vectors. We now show that a cationic liposome significantly enhances delivery and expression of plasmid DNA in Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. We then introduced the genes for...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Insect Resistance and Genetics
• Share to Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
• Share to Mosquito-borne diseases and control