Plasmodium metabolite HMBPP stimulates feeding of main mosquito vectors on blood and artificial toxic sources

Viktoria Stromsky and Melika Hajkazemian et al. examine the potential effect of HMPBB, a Plasmodium metabolite, on blood-feeding rates of major vector mosquitoes, like Anopheles gambiae. They report that HMBPP significantly increased blood feeding on all tested mosquito species, and suggest that it...

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Main Authors: Viktoria E. Stromsky, Melika Hajkazemian, Elizabeth Vaisbourd, Raimondas Mozūraitis, S. Noushin Emami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-10-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02689-8