Immunological Crosstalk between Human Transforming Growth Factor-β1 and the Malaria Vector Anopheles stephensi

The emergence of pesticide-resistant mosquitoes and drug-resistant parasites in the last twenty years has made control of malaria more difficult. One novel strategy to better control malaria is the development and release of transgenic mosquitoes whose enhanced immunity prevents transmission of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lieber, Matthew Joshua
Other Authors: Biochemistry
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
BMP
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42816
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06012005-211726/