The effects of ingestion of hormonal host factors on the longevity and insecticide resistance phenotype of the major malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidae)

Shüné V. Oliver; Basil D. Brooke

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180909

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The effects of ingestion of hormonal host factors on the longevity and insecticide resistance phenotype of the major malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidae)

Shüné V. Oliver ,

* E-mail: shuneo@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations Centre for Emerging, Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-6658

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Basil D. Brooke

Affiliations Centre for Emerging, Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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The effects of ingestion of hormonal host factors on the longevity and insecticide resistance phenotype of the major malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidae)

Shüné V. Oliver,
Basil D. Brooke

Published: July 11, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180909

About the Authors

Shüné V. Oliver

* E-mail: shuneo@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations Centre for Emerging, Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-6658

Basil D. Brooke

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SVO BDB. Data curation: SVO. Formal analysis: SVO. Funding acquisition: SVO BDB. Investigation: SVO. Methodology: SVO BDB. Project administration: SVO. Resources: SVO BDB. Software: SVO BDB. Supervision: SVO BDB. Validation: SVO BDB. Visualization: SVO BDB. Writing – original draft: SVO. Writing – review & editing: SVO BDB.

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