Comparison of the hemolysis machinery in two evolutionarily distant blood-feeding arthropod vectors of human diseases

Moataza Dorrah; Chaima Bensaoud; Amr A. Mohamed; Daniel Sojka; Taha T. M. Bassal; Michail Kotsyfakis

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0009151

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Comparison of the hemolysis machinery in two evolutionarily distant blood-feeding arthropod vectors of human diseases

Moataza Dorrah ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Moataza Dorrah, Chaima Bensaoud

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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Chaima Bensaoud ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Moataza Dorrah, Chaima Bensaoud

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

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice (Budweis), Czech Republic
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Amr A. Mohamed ,

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

* E-mail: mamr@sci.cu.edu.eg (AAM); mich_kotsyfakis@yahoo.com (MK)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2788-5534

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Daniel Sojka,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice (Budweis), Czech Republic
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Taha T. M. Bassal,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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Michail Kotsyfakis

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mamr@sci.cu.edu.eg (AAM); mich_kotsyfakis@yahoo.com (MK)

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice (Budweis), Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7526-1876

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Comparison of the hemolysis machinery in two evolutionarily distant blood-feeding arthropod vectors of human diseases

Moataza Dorrah,
Chaima Bensaoud,
Amr A. Mohamed,
Daniel Sojka,
Taha T. M. Bassal,
Michail Kotsyfakis

Published: February 4, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009151

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