Both living bacteria and eukaryotes in the mosquito gut promote growth of larvae.

• Main Authors: Luca Valzania (Author), Vincent G Martinson (Author), Ruby E Harrison (Author), Bret M Boyd (Author), Kerri L Coon (Author), Mark R Brown (Author), Michael R Strand (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We recently reported that larval stage Aedes aegypti and several other species of mosquitoes grow when living bacteria are present in the gut but do not grow when living bacteria are absent. We further reported that living bacteria induce a hypoxia signal in the gut, which activates hypoxia-induced...