Understanding how mosquito vectors and malaria parasites interact is of fundamental
interest, and it also offers novel perspectives for disease control. Both the genetic and …

Highlights • Mosquito vectors can evolve behavioural adaptations in response to vector control.
• Observed behavioural shifts in the field concern biting time/site and bitten host species. …

Odors emitted by human skin are of great interest to biologists in many fields; applications
range from forensic studies to diagnostic tools, the design of perfumes and deodorants, and …

The standard membrane feeding assay (SMFA) is currently considered to be the ‘gold standard’
for assessing the effectiveness of malaria transmission blocking interventions (TBIs) in …

Malaria reduction is most efficiently achieved by vector control whereby human populations
at high risk of contracting and transmitting the disease are protected from mosquito bites. …

Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) target the development of Plasmodium
parasites within the mosquito, with the aim of preventing malaria transmission from one infected …

The widespread insecticide resistance raises concerns for vector control implementation
and sustainability particularly for the control of the main vector of human malaria, Anopheles …

10.7554/eLife.34463.001 Understanding the importance of gametocyte density on human-to-mosquito
transmission is of immediate relevance to malaria control. Previous work (…

Parasites that cause malaria must complete a complex life cycle in Anopheles vector mosquitoes
in order to be transmitted from human to human. Previous gene‐silencing studies have …

Infection with Plasmodium can elicit antibodies that inhibit parasite survival in the mosquito,
when they are ingested in an infectious blood meal. Here, we determine the transmission-…