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Blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum parasites rely on a non-photosynthetic plastid, the apicoplast, for survival, making it an attractive target for antimalarial intervention. Like the mitochondrion, th...

Nitisinone, a medication already used to treat rare genetic disorders like tyrosinemia type 1, blocks an essential enzyme mosquitoes need to digest their blood meal, resulting in rapid death.The new

Plasmodium sporozoites, the stage that initiates a malaria infection, must invade the mosquito salivary glands (SGs) before transmitting to a vertebrate host. However, the effects of sporozoite invasi...

Dry conditions increase blood feeding in mosquitoes, but it is unknown if dehydration-induced bloodmeals are increased beyond what is necessary for re…

Larviciding is an important part of effective integrated mosquito management. However, growing resistance to chemical and bacterial-based insecticides requires biocontrol agents with novel modes of ac...

A protein found in the saliva of Anopheles gambiae stopped blood from clotting in the insects’ stomachs and aided parasite transmission.

Here, Pala et al. show that mosquito salivary apyrase regulates hemostasis in the mosquito blood meal, boosting malaria transmission. They demonstrate that immunizing against apyrase inhibits parasite...

Background Study of malaria parasite cell biology is challenged by their small size, which can make visualisation of individual organelles difficult or impossible using conventional light microscopy. ...