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“Salivary gland cellular architecture in the Asian malaria vector mosquito Anopheles stephensi”

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, December 2015
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Title
“Salivary gland cellular architecture in the Asian malaria vector mosquito Anopheles stephensi”
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13071-015-1229-z
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Michael B. Wells, Deborah J. Andrew

Abstract

Anopheles mosquitoes are vectors for malaria, a disease with continued grave outcomes for human health. Transmission of malaria from mosquitoes to humans occurs by parasite passage through the salivary glands (SGs). Previous studies of mosquito SG architecture have been limited in scope and detail. We developed a simple, optimized protocol for fluorescence staining using dyes and/or antibodies to interrogate cellular architecture in Anopheles stephensi adult SGs. We used common biological dyes, antibodies to well-conserved structural and organellar markers, and antibodies against Anopheles salivary proteins to visualize many individual SGs at high resolution by confocal microscopy. These analyses confirmed morphological features previously described using electron microscopy and uncovered a high degree of individual variation in SG structure. Our studies provide evidence for two alternative models for the origin of the salivary duct, the structure facilitating parasite transport out of SGs. We compare SG cellular architecture in An. stephensi and Drosophila melanogaster, a fellow Dipteran whose adult SGs are nearly completely unstudied, and find many conserved features despite divergence in overall form and function. Anopheles salivary proteins previously observed at the basement membrane were localized either in SG cells, secretory cavities, or the SG lumen. Our studies also revealed a population of cells with characteristics consistent with regenerative cells, similar to muscle satellite cells or midgut regenerative cells. This work serves as a foundation for linking Anopheles stephensi SG cellular architecture to function and as a basis for generating and evaluating tools aimed at preventing malaria transmission at the level of mosquito SGs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 2%
Unknown 41 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 21%
Researcher 5 12%
Student > Master 5 12%
Student > Postgraduate 4 10%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 7 17%
Unknown 9 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 12%
Environmental Science 3 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 7%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 5%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 10 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 July 2016.
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#13,173,409
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#2,134
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#177,212
of 390,865 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#41
of 149 outputs
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