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Science 4 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5591, pp. 172 - 175
DOI: 10.1126/science.1076827

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Neuropeptides and Peptide Hormones in Anopheles gambiae

Michael A. Riehle,1* Stephen F. Garczynski,2* Joe W. Crim,2 Catherine A. Hill,3 Mark R. Brown1dagger

The African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, is specialized for rapid completion of development and reproduction. A vertebrate blood meal is required for egg production, and multiple feedings subsequently allow transmission of malaria parasites, Plasmodium spp. Regulatory peptides from 35 genes annotated from the A. gambiae genome likely coordinate these and other physiological processes. Plasmodium parasites may affect actions of newly identified insulin-like peptides, which coordinate growth and reproduction of its vector, A. gambiae, as in Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, and mammals. This genomic information provides a basis to expand understanding of hematophagy and pathogen transmission in this mosquito.

1 Department of Entomology,
2 Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
3 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
*   These authors contributed equally to this work.

dagger    To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mbrown{at}bugs.ent.uga.edu


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