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<i>Anopheles coluzzii</i> stearoyl-CoA desaturase is essential for adult female survival and reproduction upon blood feeding
2020-06-15
Abstract excerpt
Vitellogenesis and oocyte maturation require anautogenous female Anopheles mosquitoes to obtain a bloodmeal from a vertebrate host. The bloodmeal is rich in proteins that are readily broken down into amino acids in the midgut lumen and absorbed by the midgut epithelial cells where they are converted into lipids and then transported to other tissues including ovaries. The stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) plays a pivo...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 22fed1ca-1ee6-5177-9a4f-890f417e9a35
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.06.14.151019
