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Salivary gland maturation and duct formation in the African malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
Scientific reports - 4 Apr 2017
Wells Michael B, Villamor Jordan, Andrew Deborah J
Abstract excerpt
Mosquito-borne diseases cause one million deaths and hundreds of millions of human infections yearly. With all such diseases, the pathogen must traverse the mosquito salivary gland (SG) for transmission to a new host, making the SGs ideal targets for genetic strategies to block transmission. Prior studies have elucidated details of SG structure by light and electron microscopy and have deeply explored the...
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