The effects of mating and blood feeding on the immune defense of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

• Brendan J. Kelly ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Brendan J. Kelly, Nicki C. Joseph

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

  Affiliations Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Nicki C. Joseph ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Brendan J. Kelly, Nicki C. Joseph

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

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6961-2287

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• Dom Magistrado,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Sarah M. Short

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

  * E-mail: short.343@osu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1074-8982

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