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Wild Anopheles funestus mosquito genotypes are permissive for infection with the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Xu Jiannong, Hillyer Julián F, Coulibaly Boubacar, Sacko Madjou, Dao Adama, Niaré Oumou, Riehle Michelle M, Traoré Sekou F, Vernick Kenneth D
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BACKGROUND: Malaria parasites undergo complex developmental transitions within the mosquito vector. A commonly used laboratory model for studies of mosquito-malaria interaction is the rodent parasite, P. berghei. Anopheles funestus is a major malaria vector in sub-Saharan Africa but has received less attention than the sympatric species, Anopheles gambiae. The imminent completion of the A. funestus genome...
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