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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-10-01
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Series: | Communications Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02689-8 |