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Wolbachia infections in natural Anopheles populations affect egg laying and negatively correlate with Plasmodium development
31 May 2016
Abstract excerpt
The maternally inherited alpha-proteobacterium Wolbachia has been proposed as a tool to block transmission of devastating mosquito-borne infectious diseases like dengue and malaria. Here we study the reproductive manipulations induced by a recently identified Wolbachia strain that stably infects natural mosquito populations of a major malaria vector, Anopheles coluzzii, in Burkina Faso. We determine that these...
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