The Plasmodium transmission-blocking symbiont, Microsporidia MB, is vertically transmitted through Anopheles arabiensis germline stem cells

• Thomas Ogao Onchuru ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jherren@icipe.org (JKH), tonchuru@icipe.org (TOO)

  Affiliations International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Bomet University College, Bomet, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-9449

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• Edward Edmond Makhulu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, University of the Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand, South Africa

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• Purity Cassandra Ronnie,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Stancy Mandere,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Fidel Gabriel Otieno,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Joseph Gichuhi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Jeremy Keith Herren

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jherren@icipe.org (JKH), tonchuru@icipe.org (TOO)

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2239-7275

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