Insulin receptor knockdown blocks filarial parasite development and alters egg production in the southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus

• Andrew Bradley Nuss ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nuss@cabnr.unr.edu (ABN); mgulianuss@unr.edu (MGN)

  Affiliations Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Mark R. Brown,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Upadhyayula Suryanarayana Murty,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India

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• Monika Gulia-Nuss

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nuss@cabnr.unr.edu (ABN); mgulianuss@unr.edu (MGN)

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7095-1037

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