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JNK signaling regulates reproductive trade-offs after Plasmodium infection in the malaria mosquito

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By Max Lombardi, Anastasia Accoti, Gloria Iacomelli, Lucia Pazzagli, Simona Ferracchiato, Duo Peng, Charles Vidoudez, W. Robert Shaw, Flaminia Catteruccia, Roberta Spaccapelo, Matthew Peirce, Paolo Scarpelli, Antonella Turco, Giulia Monacchia, Tasneem A. Rinvee
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Abstract Environmental stress can limit mammalian reproduction by affecting production of sexual steroid hormones. Here we reveal a similar mechanism in the malarial mosquito Anopheles gambiae: activation of the stress-sensitive c-Jun N-terminal kinase, JNK, constrains reproductive investment by suppressing production of ecdysteroids that orchestrate egg development in this species. We show that infection with Plasmodium berghei (P.
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Experimental evidence of male–male interaction in laboratory swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

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By Leonardo Parisi, Matteo Fiorini, Matthew Peirce, Stefania Melillo, Roberta Spaccapelo, Gloria Iacomelli, Max Lombardi, Francesca Grucci, Alessio Lavorgna, Melania Ligato, Gaetano Zarcone
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Abstract Mosquitoes mostly mate in the context of swarms: to facilitate encounters with females, males form disordered aggregations over a visual marker, which serves as a positional reference. While the relevance of this visual marker for swarming activity has been largely addressed, it is still poorly understood whether, in addition to an individual’s response to environmental stimuli, insects in a swarm interact with each other, giving rise to a collective behavior.
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