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PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 17(9) October 2021

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

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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

https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v17.i09.g001