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Bacteria-mediated hypoxia functions as a signal for mosquito development.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Jul 2017
Coon Kerri L, Valzania Luca, McKinney David A, Vogel Kevin J, Brown Mark R, Strand Michael R
Abstract excerpt
Mosquitoes host communities of microbes in their digestive tract that consist primarily of bacteria. We previously reported that several mosquito species, including Aedes aegypti, do not develop beyond the first instar when fed a nutritionally complete diet in the absence of a gut microbiota. In contrast, several species of bacteria, including Escherichia coli, rescue development of axenic larvae into adults. The...
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