Blood feeding, microbiota, and layered mosquito immunity: from pathway phenotypes to vector competence.

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Mosquitoes impose a significant epidemiological burden on public health through the transmission of malaria parasites and arboviruses. Vector competence, the ability of a mosquito to acquire, maintain, and transmit pathogens, is tightly linked to immune regulation, but immune phenotypes in mosquitoes cannot be interpreted only as pathogen-triggered activation of canonical pathways. Following blood feeding, female...

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