Importantly, this multi-peptide protein is expressed from a promoter that is turned on in the midgut, specifically when the mosquito feeds on a blood meal. In this way, the peptide is expressed in ...

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

After feeding on an infected bird, the virus circulates in the blood of the mosquito for a few days until it reaches the salivary gland. When next the mosquito takes a blood meal from a person, the ...

The new study provides “fascinating insight into life immediately after the ... or have yet to get a meal. While in flight, though, a belly full of blood slowed the mosquitoes down by about ...

A mosquito can slip that fascicle into your skin so gently that you have no idea what’s happening until the blood meal is already under way. She can sip your blood until she’s more than twice ...