“If Orson Welles, in his now famous broadcast of October 30. 1938, had announced not that the Martians had landed in New Jersey, but that a mosquito called Anopheles gambiae, a native of Africa, had ...

We investigated patterns of genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum associated with its two main African vectors: Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus. We dissected 10,296 wildcaught mosquitoes ...

Mosquitoes always seem drawn to certain people, and theories have circulated over the years as to why—it's your soap, blood type, diet—but in the WHO African Region, which bears a disproportionately ...

Experts call it the malaria machine and the more one learns about anopheles gambiae, it is easy to see why. It breeds prolifically, it feeds on man, and infected females have a good chance of ...

To the naked eye, the egg of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito is just a dark speck, but under a 100-power microscope, it shows up as a fat, slightly curved cucumber, somewhat narrower at one end. In the ...

Population subgroups of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae have not been comprehensively characterized owing to the lack of unbiased sampling methods. In the arid savanna zone of West Africa ...

A new gene drive may push a species of malaria-carrying mosquito to extinction. “This is a great day,” says James Bull, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas at Austin who was not ...