TNF signaling mediates cellular immune function and promotes malaria parasite killing in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae

• George-Rafael Samantsidis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: George-Rafael Samantsidis, Hyeogsun Kwon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶These authors are contributed equally.

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Hyeogsun Kwon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: George-Rafael Samantsidis, Hyeogsun Kwon

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

  ¶These authors are contributed equally.

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Megan Wendland,

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

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Catherine Fonder,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Interdepartmental Graduate Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Ryan C. Smith

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

  * E-mail: smithr@iastate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0245-2265

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