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Resolving malaria’s dry-season dilemma

Nature Ecology & Evolution volume 6, pages 1593–1594 (2022)Cite this article

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An innovative isotopic labelling strategy shows that malaria mosquitoes in the West-African Sahel region survive in dormancy over the prolonged dry season. These results have implications for efforts to suppress malaria transmission in Africa.

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Fig. 1: Isotopic labelling demonstrates dry-seasonal survival of adult A. coluzzi mosquitoes.

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