Anopheles albimanus
Molecular evidence for historical presence of knock down resistance in Anopheles albimanus, a key malaria vector in Latin America
... Background: Anopheles albimanus is a key malaria vector in the northern ...An. albimanus and to conduct a preliminary retrospective analysis of field samples collected in the 1990 ’ s, coinciding ...
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The salivary catechol oxidase/peroxidase activities of the mosquito Anopheles albimanus
... female Anopheles albimanus mosquitoes relaxed aortic rings preconstricted with noradrenaline ...female Anopheles albimanus mosquitoes contain a salivary heme peroxidase that functions during ...
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Purification and cloning of the salivary peroxidase/catechol oxidase of the mosquito Anopheles albimanus
... Initially, we tested the ability of size-exclusion, strong- cation, strong-anion and hydroxyapatite columns to resolve the salivary peroxidase of Anopheles albimanus chromatographically using 20 pairs of ...
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Models of effectiveness of interventions against malaria transmitted by Anopheles albimanus
... Anopheles albimanus is the main vector in malaria foci in Central America and the Caribbean, in particular in Haiti [1, 2], which accounts for most of the Plasmodium falcipa- rum transmission in the ...
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Fipronil and ivermectin treatment of cattle reduced the survival and ovarian development of field collected Anopheles albimanus in a pilot trial conducted in northern Belize
... Belize. Anopheles albimanus mos- quitoes were distinguished from other anopheline species routinely collected in San Roman ...(e.g., Anopheles puncti- macula, Anopheles vestitipennis) based on ...
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Contrasting patterns of gene expression indicate differing pyrethroid resistance mechanisms across the range of the New World malaria vector Anopheles albimanus
... in Anopheles albimanus from Peru and Guatemala. An. albimanus were phenotyped as either deltamethrin or alpha-cypermethrin ...An. albimanus was sequenced and analyzed using ...An. ...
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Plasmodium vivax CSP Pvs25 variants from southern Mexico produce distinct patterns of infectivity for Anopheles albimanus versus An pseudopunctipennis, in each case independent of geographical origin
... Anopheles albimanus Wiedemann, 1820 and An. pseudo- punctipennis Theobald, 1901 are the main malaria vec- tors in Mexico, Central America and northern South America [1]. The former occurs on the coastal ...
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An antibody against an Anopheles albimanus midgut myosin reduces Plasmodium berghei oocyst development
... LC-MS/MS raw data were converted to Mascot generic Format (.mgf) by Agilent MassHunter Qualitative Analysis B.04.00. Mascot version 2.4.1 was used to search against three different FASTA databases downloaded from Vector- ...
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Differential susceptibilities of Anopheles albimanus and Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes to ivermectin
... Background: Vector control is a crucial element of anti-malaria campaigns and works best when there is a thorough knowledge of the biology and behaviour of the Anopheles vector species responsible for transmitting ...
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Precopulatory acoustic interactions of the New World malaria vector Anopheles albimanus (Diptera: Culicidae)
... Background: Anopheles albimanus is a malaria vector in Central America, northern South America and the Carib‑ ...An. albimanus precopulatory mating behaviors are ...and Anopheles gambiae; ...
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Infection with Plasmodium berghei ookinetes alters protein expression in the brain of Anopheles albimanus mosquitoes
... interaction between them. The enolase was determined to be the alfa protein of this interactome. This indicates that the metabolism of neuronal cells is the first cellular process altered by Plasmodium infection (Fig. ...
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Near-present and future distribution of Anopheles albimanus in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean Basin modeled with climate and topographic data
... The fact that MaxEnt projected near-present occurrence of the vector in Trinidad and other portions of the southern Caribbean islands where it is generally absent [5] suggests that the outputs from our experiments ...
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Novel mutations on the ace 1 gene of the malaria vector Anopheles albimanus provide evidence for balancing selection in an area of high insecticide resistance in Peru
... This study presents the first evidence of two previously undescribed mutations associated with high levels of re- sistance to OP and CA insecticides in a field population of An. albimanus, potentially maintained ...
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Population structure analyses and demographic history of the malaria vector Anopheles albimanus from the Caribbean and the Pacific regions of Colombia
... same time, the F ST is the estimate presenting the lowest differentiation bias [98]. The SAMOVA, UPGMA and BAPS detected two distinctive clusters: ACH, SRL, MON and TUR, NUQ, BUE, STU and MTU. Unlike the COI data, the ...
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Defining the larval habitat: abiotic and biotic parameters associated with Anopheles farauti productivity
... for Anopheles albimanus in the Pacific region of Colombia, where larval density was highest in sites with abundant and varied aquatic fauna, including different predators ...
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New highland distribution records of multiple Anopheles species in the Ecuadorian Andes
... Anopheles albimanus has been considered a low-alti- tude (< 500 m) species that is believed to have become more abundant through the irrigation of low-lying areas ...An. albimanus transmitting ...
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Relationships between anopheline mosquitoes and topography in West Timor and Java, Indonesia
... [5,28,29,38]. Anopheles barbirostris has also been found associated with higher elevations, rice areas, relatively shallow water depths, higher water temperatures, higher acidity and salinity concentrations, and a ...
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Genetic diversity and population structure of malaria vector mosquitoes Anopheles subpictus, Anopheles peditaeniatus, and Anopheles vagus in five districts of Sri Lanka
... Whereas Anopheles aconitus, Anopheles annularis, Anopheles barbirostris, Anopheles nigerrimus, Anopheles pallidus, Anopheles peditaneatus, Anopheles tessellatus, ...
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Simultaneous identification of the Anopheles funestus group and Anopheles longipalpis type C by PCR RFLP
... Koekemoer et al [5] reported that sequence analysis of the ITS2 region in An. longipalpis type C is similar to the sequences of An. parensis and An. vaneedeni in the An. funestus subgroup. These three species are almost ...
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Implications of low density microfilariae carriers in Anopheles transmission areas: molecular forms of Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus populations in perspective
... Background: Previous studies have shown a general reduction in annual transmission potential (ATP) of Anopheles species after mass drug administration (MDA) in lymphatic filariasis endemic communities. Whereas ...
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