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Larval nutritional stress affects vector immune traits in adult yellow fever mosquito <i>Aedes aegypti (Stegomyia aegypti)</i>
23 Nov 2011
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We report key physiological traits that link larval nutritional experience to adult immune status in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti L. (Stegomyia aegypti) (Diptera: Culicidae). Many lines of defence make up the innate immune system of mosquitoes. Among defences, the epithelium-lined midgut is the first barrier, circulating haemocytes are cellular components of innate immunity and, when triggered, the...
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