bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Окт. 8, 2024

Female mosquitoes are reproductively obligate bloodfeeders which feed on vertebrate blood to obtain nutrients required for egg production (driving transmission of vector-borne pathogens in the process), and rely plant sugars their non-reproductive energy requirements. Male mosquitoes, other hand, thought exclusively energetic needs; indeed, this dichotomy is one central tenets medical entomology. Here, we show that male

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