Anopheles coluzzii stearoyl-CoA desaturase is essential for adult female survival and reproduction upon blood feeding

• Zannatul Ferdous,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Silke Fuchs ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Silke Fuchs, Volker Behrends

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8921-7422

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• Volker Behrends ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Silke Fuchs, Volker Behrends

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Health Science Research Centre, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4855-5497

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• Nikolaos Trasanidis,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Robert M. Waterhouse,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4199-9052

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• Dina Vlachou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8305-3014

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• George K. Christophides

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: g.christophides@imperial.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3323-1687

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