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SUBMITTER: Zhao YO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3393683 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhao Yang O YO Kurscheid Sebastian S Zhang Yue Y Liu Lei L Zhang Lili L Loeliger Kelsey K Fikrig Erol E
PloS one 20120710 7
Plasmodium spp. are pathogenic to their vertebrate hosts and also apparently, impose a fitness cost on their insect vectors. We show here, however, that Plasmodium-infected mosquitoes survive starvation significantly better than uninfected mosquitoes. This survival advantage during starvation is associated with higher energy resource storage that infected mosquitoes accumulate during period of Plasmodium oocyst development. Microarray analysis revealed that the metabolism of sated mosquitoes is ...[more]