Engineered action at a distance: Blood-meal-inducible paralysis in Aedes aegypti

Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah; Tim Harvey-Samuel; Sanjay Basu; Oliver StJohn; Sarah Scaife; Sebald Verkuijl; Erica Lovett; Luke Alphey

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007579

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Engineered action at a distance: Blood-meal-inducible paralysis in Aedes aegypti

Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah, Tim Harvey-Samuel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Tim Harvey-Samuel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah, Tim Harvey-Samuel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom
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Sanjay Basu,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom
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Oliver StJohn,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6771-0280

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Sarah Scaife,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Immunocore, Park Drive, United Kingdom
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Sebald Verkuijl,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom
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Erica Lovett,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom
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Luke Alphey

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Luke.alphey@pirbright.ac.uk

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-3802

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Engineered action at a distance: Blood-meal-inducible paralysis in Aedes aegypti

Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah,
Tim Harvey-Samuel,
Sanjay Basu,
Oliver StJohn,
Sarah Scaife,
Sebald Verkuijl,
Erica Lovett,
Luke Alphey

Published: September 3, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007579

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