Mosquitoes live under the endless threat of infections from different kinds of pathogens such
as bacteria, parasites, and viruses. The mosquito defends itself by employing both physical …

In the Americas, areas with a high risk of malaria transmission are mainly located in the
Amazon Forest, which extends across nine countries. One keystone step to understanding …

Nearly one million people are killed every year by the malaria parasite Plasmodium.
Although the disease-causing forms of the parasite exist only in the human blood …

Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases. Because of the ineffectiveness of current malaria-
control methods, several novel mosquito vector-based control strategies have been …

Insect serine proteases (SPs) and serine protease homologs (SPHs) participate in digestion,
defense, development, and other physiological processes. In mosquitoes, some clip-domain …

Background Wolbachia is a bacterial endosymbiont that naturally infects a wide range of
insect species, and causes drastic changes to host biology. Stable infections of Wolbachia in …

Mosquitoes transmit diseases that seriously impact global human health. Despite extensive
knowledge of the life cycles of mosquito-borne parasites and viruses within their hosts …

The establishment of a productive dengue virus (DENV) infection in the midgut epithelial
cells of Aedes aegypti is critical for the viral transmission cycle. The hypothesis that DENV …

Malaria is a vector-borne disease causing extensive morbidity, debility and mortality.
Development of resistance to drugs among parasites and to conventional insecticides …

The availability of genome sequencing data in combination with knowledge of expressed
genes via transcriptome and proteome data has greatly advanced our understanding of …