The females feed on both humans and animals, but some species have a preference for one over the other; species that favor humans pose the greatest risk for transmitting malaria. There are four ...

The circumsporozoite protein (CSP) has a key role in several stages of the Plasmodium life cycle ... Malaria infection is initiated by the injection of Plasmodium sporozoites from infected ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Several vaccines that target different stages of the malaria parasite life cycle are now in clinical trials (see the table). The most ...

14 At lower altitudes where malaria is already a problem, warmer temperatures will alter the growth cycle ... life by cutting down on carbon, 78,000 lives may be saved annually by using mosquito ...

The malaria-carrying one is mostly the female ... After the airborne portion of their life cycle, female mosquitoes usually lay eggs on the surface of water or in areas where water can rise ...

Within its two hosts, mosquitoes and vertebrates ... The identification of NEK1 as a key regulator in the malaria parasite’s life cycle is a critical milestone in this effort.

Genetically engineered mosquitoes with toxic semen could be ... a common laboratory species favored for its short two-week life cycle. Female flies that bred with "toxic" males had a significantly ...