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A sweet appetizer protects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes against arboviral infection
Aedes aegypti females either non-fed (right) or fed with blue-coloured sugar (left). The ingested sugar solution is stored in the crop, which is visible through the abdomen on the picture thanks to the blue dye, and is intermittently relocated to the gut for digestion. See Almire et al.
Image Credit: Emilie Pondeville, 2021
Citation: (2021) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 17(9) October 2021. PLoS Pathog 17(9): ev17.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v17.i09
Published: October 1, 2021
Copyright: © 2021 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Aedes aegypti females either non-fed (right) or fed with blue-coloured sugar (left). The ingested sugar solution is stored in the crop, which is visible through the abdomen on the picture thanks to the blue dye, and is intermittently relocated to the gut for digestion. See Almire et al.
Image Credit: Emilie Pondeville, 2021