Ana P. M. Duarte

TL;DR: The literature on malaria transmission from the perspective of its Amazon vectors is reviewed and the importance of the modulation of Plasmodium infection by the vector microbiota is discussed and also the anopheline genomes are considered.

TL;DR: It was found that sporozoites have species-specific mechanisms of escape from the oocyst, demonstrating that Plasmodium species do not share a common mechanism of sporozoite escape, as previously thought, but show complex and species- specific mechanisms.

TL;DR: Bayesian analysis suggests that the most recent ancestor of Nyssorhynchus and Anopheles + Cellia was extant ~83 MYA, corroborating current estimates of ~79–100 MYA and additional sampling and publication of African, Asian, and North American anopheline mitogenomes would improve the resolution of the Anophele phylogeny and clarify early continental dispersal routes.