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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Rodgers FH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5448818 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS pathogens 20170517 5
Manipulation of the mosquito gut microbiota can lay the foundations for novel methods for disease transmission control. Mosquito blood feeding triggers a significant, transient increase of the gut microbiota, but little is known about the mechanisms by which the mosquito controls this bacterial growth whilst limiting inflammation of the gut epithelium. Here, we investigate the gut epithelial response to the changing microbiota load upon blood feeding in the malaria vector Anopheles coluzzii. We ...[more]