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Medard Ernest1, Thiago Luiz Alves E Silva1, Joel Vega-Rodríguez2.
Abstract
Anopheles mosquitoes feed on plant nectars as their main source of sugar. Wang et al. show that Asaia bacteria proliferate in the midgut of mosquitoes that feed on glucose or trehalose. Asaia increases the lumenal pH by downregulating mosquito vacuolar ATPase expression, therefore increasing Plasmodium gametogenesis and vector competence. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Entities:
Keywords: Anopheles; Plasmodium; glucose; microbiome; vectorial capacity
Year: 2021 PMID： 34275728 DOI： 10.1016/j.pt.2021.07.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Parasitol ISSN： 1471-4922