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SUBMITTER: Vantaux A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5101500 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vantaux Amélie A Lefèvre Thierry T Cohuet Anna A Dabiré Kounbobr Roch KR Roche Benjamin B Roux Olivier O
Scientific reports 20161109
Exposure to stress during an insect's larval development can have carry-over effects on adult life history traits and susceptibility to pathogens. We investigated the effects of larval nutritional stress for the first time using field mosquito vectors and malaria parasites. In contrast to previous studies, we show that larval nutritional stress may affect human to mosquito transmission antagonistically: nutritionally deprived larvae showed lower parasite prevalence for only one gametocyte carrie ...[more]