| intensive trapping of blood-fed anopheles darlingi in amazonian peru reveals unexpectedly high proportions of avian blood-meals. | anopheles darlingi, the main malaria vector in the neotropics, has been considered to be highly anthropophilic. however, many behavioral aspects of this species remain unknown, such as the range of blood-meal sources. barrier screens were used to collect resting anopheles darlingi mosquitoes from 2013 to 2015 in three riverine localities (lupuna, cahuide and santa emilia) in amazonian peru. overall, the human blood index (hbi) ranged from 0.58-0.87, with no significant variation among years or s ... | 2017 | 28231248 |
| immune activation upregulates lysozyme gene expression in aedes aegypti mosquito cell culture. | after stimulation with heat-killed bacteria, cultured cells from the mosquito aedes aegypti (aag-2 cells) secreted an induced protein with a mass of approximately 16 kda that cross-reacted with antibody to chicken egg lysozyme. to investigate whether lysozyme messenger rna is induced in bacteria-treated cells, we used polymerase chain reaction-based approaches to obtain the complete lysozyme cdna from aag-2 cells. the deduced protein contained 148 amino acids, including a 23 amino acid signal se ... | 2000 | 11122464 |