Sensory appendage protein triggers alarm to pyrethroid in Indian malarial vector Anopheles culicifacies

Vaishali Saini; Pooja Rohilla; Vartika Srivastava; Gitanjali Tandon; Pooja Yadav; Nirmala Sankhala; Tanvi Singh; Gunjan Sharma; Suchi Tyagi; Tanwee Das De; Rajnikant Dixit

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0333483

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Sensory appendage protein triggers alarm to pyrethroid in Indian malarial vector Anopheles culicifacies

Vaishali Saini,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Pooja Rohilla,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Vartika Srivastava,

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Gitanjali Tandon,

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India
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Pooja Yadav,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Nirmala Sankhala,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Tanvi Singh,

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Gunjan Sharma,

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Suchi Tyagi,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Tanwee Das De ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: dixitrk@mrcindia.org (RD); tanwee.das@gmail.com (TDD)

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Department of Medical Entomology and Zoology, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Microbial Containment Complex, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Rajnikant Dixit

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

* E-mail: dixitrk@mrcindia.org (RD); tanwee.das@gmail.com (TDD)

Affiliations Laboratory of Host-Parasite Interaction Studies, Department of Vector Genomics, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3536-8329

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Sensory appendage protein triggers alarm to pyrethroid in Indian malarial vector Anopheles culicifacies

Vaishali Saini,
Pooja Rohilla,
Vartika Srivastava,
Gitanjali Tandon,
Pooja Yadav,
Nirmala Sankhala,
Tanvi Singh,
Gunjan Sharma,
Suchi Tyagi,
Tanwee Das De

Published: October 7, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333483

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