Sentences with word «gambiae»

The scientists used the new CRISPR / Cas9 system, which permits precise DNA editing, to delete a gene called FREP1 from the genome of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the chief transmitters of malaria to humans.

Gene drive technology might limit the ability of Anopheles gambiae mosquito to transmit malaria to humans.

Eight species known as the Anopheles gambiae complex of mosquitoes in Africa became separate species less than 5 million years ago, and they sometimes still interbreed, producing fertile hybrids.

Reticulate Speciation and Barriers to Introgression in the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex.

3 - D flight behaviour of the malarial mosquito Anopheles gambiae s.s. inside an odour plume.

This was demonstrated in a laboratory setting in which infected female Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto mosquitoes were attracted to human odours three times more than mosquitoes that were not infected with the malaria - causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite.

Evolution of GOUNDRY, a cryptic subgroup of Anopheles gambiae sl, and its impact on susceptibility to Plasmodium infection.

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gambiae appears to have driven an increase in both kdr frequency, along with the selection of metabolic resistance via strongly increased expression of P450s, especially CYP9K1, which prompted a revision to bendiocarb IRS in 2016 to prevent a resurgence in cases of malaria.

In a paper published in PNAS the team of researchers led by LSTM's Professor Janet Hemingway describe how operational malaria control activities, and a move back to pyrethroid based indoor residual spray (IRS), has led to the selection of metabolic resistance in Anopheles gambiae on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Track 3D: visualization and flight track analysis of Anopheles gambiae s.s mosquitoes.

«We hope that these data will allow the Anopheles research community to understand the evolutionary processes that make Anopheles gambiae such a formidable malaria vector.»

Genome sequences of Anopheles gambiae sister species help to investigate insecticide resistance

FlyMine loads gene expression data for Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae from FlyAtlas, BDGP, ArrayExpress and Fly - FISH.

gambiae during the 1st period, the results did not reveal any statistical association between mean trend in monthly rainfall and declining malaria vector populations.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

Reticulate speciation and adaptive introgression in the Anopheles gambiae species complex.

A 3D Analysis of Flight Behavior of Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto Malaria Mosquitoes in Response to Human Odor and Heat.

Evolution of GOUNDRY, a cryptic subgroup of Anopheles gambiae sl, and its impact on susceptibility to Plasmodium infection Crawford, J. C., M. M. Riehle, K. Markianos, E. Bischoff, et al. 2016.

A UK - based team hopes to begin field tests of gene drives in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the main carrier of malaria in Africa, as soon as 2024.

Reticulate Speciation and Barriers to Introgression in the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex Crawford, J. E., M. M. Riehle, W. M. Guelbeogo, A. Gneme et al. 2015.

Crisanti's team, for instance, is working on gene drives in the malaria - carrying mosquito Anopheles gambiae that perpetuate mutations causing females to become infertile.

A self - propagating cut - and - paste system known as a gene drive can sterilize female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, researchers report December 7 in Nature Biotechnology.

The main vector across Africa, Anopheles gambiae, is so ubiquitous that people can be exposed to thousands of infectious bites a year, and transmission is the highest in the world.

Waiting with bated breath: Opportunistic orientation to human odor in the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, is modulated by minute changes in carbon dioxide concentration.

To the malaria - carrying mosquito Anopheles gambiae (pictured), the stench of human feet is like the smell of a fresh - baked pie.

In 2016, for example, researchers reported that they had created a CRISPR / Cas9 gene drive that forces a fertility - reducing gene modification into female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes — which could quickly reduce local Anopheles populations if unleashed in the wild.

To understand how mosquitoes are evolving, researchers working with the Anopheles gambiae 1000 genomes project sequenced the DNA of 765 wild Anopheles mosquitoes.

This is an Anopheles gambiae mosquito being injected with hemolymph for a malaria research study.

For the research, conducted in the insectary at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore, Dimopoulos and colleagues modified Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes by deleting the gene FREP1, which encodes an immune protein, fibrinogen - related protein 1.

AN African mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, kills hundreds of thousands of people every year by giving them malaria.

The study was funded by UK Aid and carried out in Uganda, focusing on one of the main malaria carrying mosquitoes in Africa — Anopheles gambiae s.s..

A group of insect geneticists, genome researchers, and funding officials has put together a plan to open a new front in the war against malaria: the sequencing of the genome of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito primarily responsible for spreading the disease in Africa.

PARIS — Scientists have agreed to collaborate on an eagerly awaited effort to sequence the genome of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, the main vector for the malaria parasite in sub-Saharan Africa.

He is inspired because his own group is trying to infect A. gambiae, the main malaria vector in Africa and an even more difficult target to infect.

Knols is an admirer of Fred Soper, a legendary U.S. scientist at The Rockefeller Foundation who in the late 1930s helped Brazil get rid of a massive infestation of Anopheles gambiae, Africa's main malaria vector.

In the future, the same technique might also work for other malaria - carrying mosquitoes, such as A. gambiae, which predominates in Africa, Takken says.

The variation data can be viewed using the Anopheles gambiae genome browser, and links to the PanOptes browser developed by the Anopheles gambiae 1000 genomes consortium.

Reticulate speciation and adaptive introgression in the Anopheles gambiae species complex Crawford, J. M. M. Riehle, W. M. Guelbeogo, A. Gneme et al. 2014.

The release incorporates data on 44 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), more than were discovered by the human 1000 genomes project from a similar number of genomes, even though the human genome is more than ten times larger than that of A. gambiae, highlighting the spectacular natural diversity that exists in mosquito populations.

The mosquito species Anopheles gambiae is a major carrier of dangerous malaria parasites in sub-Saharan Africa, where 90 per cent of annual malaria deaths occur.

Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have found that exposure to just 10 minutes of light at night suppresses biting and manipulates flight behavior in the Anopheles gambiae mosquito,... Read more

Anopheles gambiae is one of the primary vectors of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

He provides leadership to a number of discreet large - scale collaborations including the MalariaGEN Consortial Projects, Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes, Plasmodium falciparum 3000 genomes, and MalariaGEN P. falciparum Community Project, and routinely shares his experience with several other large - scale data - sharing initiatives including the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), PneumoGEN and the African Plasmodium Diversity Network (PDNA).

The Ag1000G project is using whole genome deep sequencing to provide a high - resolution view of genetic variation in natural populations of A. gambiae.

Anopheles gambiae is the principal malaria vector.