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female monogamy

Male accessory gland proteins induce female monogamy in anopheline mosquitoes

Author(s): 
B. Shutt, L. Stables, F. Aboagye-Antwi, J. Moran, F. Tripet
Reference: 
Medical and Veterinary Entomology Volume 24 Issue 1, Pages 91 - 94
Contact email: 
f.tripet@biol.keele.ac.uk

Here we confirm the function of MAG secretions in anophelines experimentally by showing that intra-thoracic injections in Anopheles stephensi Liston and in the M and S molecular forms of An. gambiae s.s. result in the expected female monogamy.

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