A New Role for an Old Antimicrobial: Lysozyme c-1 Can Function to Protect Malaria Parasites in Anopheles Mosquitoes
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Silencing of LYSC-1 did not alter the overall number of culturable bacteria in An. gambiae midguts.
Enumeration of culturable bacteria in the midguts of dsGFP and dsLYSC-1 injected mosquitoes. The presented bacterial count data were derived from individual mosquitoes from three biological replicates. Statistical analysis on the count data was performed using software suite R. A two-way ANOVA analysis on the log-transformed data did not reveal any statistical significance in the total number of bacteria in the LYSC-1 knockdown mosquitoes as compared to dsGFP injected mosquitoes (p = 0.11).