Abstract
The blood feeding behavior of disease-transmitting arthropods creates a unique intersection between vertebrate and invertebrate physiology. Here, we review host blood-derived factors that persist through blood digestion to affect the lifespan, reproduction, and immune responses of some of the most common arthropod vectors of human disease.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 243-254 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Microbes and Infection |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2013 |
Keywords
- Insulin
- Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)
- Mosquito
- Plasmodium
- Tick
- Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology
- Immunology
- Infectious Diseases
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Pakpour, N., Akman-Anderson, L., Vodovotz, Y., & Luckhart, S. (2013). The effects of ingested mammalian blood factors on vector arthropod immunity and physiology. Microbes and Infection, 15(3), 243-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2013.01.003