Molecular detection of Wolbachia pipientis in natural populations of mosquito vectors of Dirofilaria immitis from continental Portugal: first detection in Culex theileri

Authors: Almeida AP, Belo S, Calado MM, de Pinho Mixao V, Mauricio IL, Mendes AM, Novo MT
Publication Year: 2016
Journal: Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mve.12179

Wolbachia pipientis (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) protects mosquitoes from infections with arboviruses and parasites. However, the effect of its co-infection on vector competence for Dirofilaria immitis (Spirurida: Onchocercidae) in the wild has not been investigated. This study aimed to screen vectors of D. immitis for wPip, to characterize these, and to investigate a possible association between the […]
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Comparative morphological and molecular analysis confirms the presence of the West Nile virus mosquito vector, Culex univittatus, in the Iberian Peninsula

Authors: Almeida AP, Braack L, Bravo-Barriga D, Frontera E, Mixão V, Novo MT, Parreira R, Sousa CA, Venter M
Publication Year: 2016
Journal: Parasites & Vectors
Link: https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-016-1877-7

Authors: Afonso C, Almeida AP, Frischknecht F, Gardner R, Gomes-Santos CS, Henriques R, Itoe MA, Moita LF, Mota MM, Raquel H, Sepúlveda N, Simões PD
Journal: PLoS One
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Highly+Dynamic+Host+Actin+Reorganization+around+Developing+Plasmodium+Inside+Hepatocytes

Plasmodium sporozoites are transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes and infect hepatocytes, where a single sporozoite replicates into thousands of merozoites inside a parasitophorous vacuole. The nature of the Plasmodium-host cell interface, as well as the interactions occurring between these two organisms, remains largely unknown.
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The Culex pipiens complex in continental Portugal: distribution and genetic structure.

Authors: Almeida AP, Donnelly MJ, Gomes B, Novo MT, Parreira R, Sousa CA, Pinto J
Journal: Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=The+Culex+pipiens+complex+in+continental+Portugal%3A+Distribution+and+genetic+structure.

Portugal is a southern European country that displays favorable ecological conditions for the establishment of West Nile virus (WNV) transmission cycles. Competent mosquito vector species are present throughout the country.
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A divergent insect-specific flavivirus that causes overt cytopathic effect in a mosquito cell-line

Authors: Almeida AP, Alves de Matos AP, Duque Ferreira D, Esteves A, Lopes A, Parreira R, Piedade J
Publication Year: 2013
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis
Link: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8964978&fileId=S1431927613001049

This work reports the initial characterization, including near full-length sequence analysis, of an ISF which seems to form a divergent lineage within the ISF radiation, as indicated by phylogenetic analysis based on ac multiple sequence alignment of the NS5 flavivirus coding sequence.
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Molecular detection of Wolbachia pipientis in natural populations of mosquito vectors of Dirofilaria immitis from continental Portugal: first detection in Culex theileri

Comparative morphological and molecular analysis confirms the presence of the West Nile virus mosquito vector, Culex univittatus, in the Iberian Peninsula

Highly dynamic host actin reorganization around developing Plasmodium inside hepatocytes.

The Culex pipiens complex in continental Portugal: distribution and genetic structure.

A divergent insect-specific flavivirus that causes overt cytopathic effect in a mosquito cell-line

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