Shirley Luckhart

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of guidelines for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macro-autophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the genomic basis of vectorial capacity and explore new avenues for vector control, sequenced the genomes of 16 anopheline mosquito species from diverse locations spanning ~100 million years of evolution Comparative analyses show faster rates of gene gain and loss, elevated gene shuffling on the X chromosome, and more intron losses, relative to Drosophila.

TL;DR: It is discovered that the mosquito Anopheles stephensi, a natural vector of human malaria, limits parasite development with inducible synthesis of nitric oxide (NO), and dietary provision of the NOS substrate L-arginine reduced Plasmodium infections in A.stephensi.

TL;DR: This results constitute the first-time that a lensfree on-chip microscope has successfully imaged malaria parasites and would be important for global health problems such as diagnosis of infectious diseases in remote locations.

TL;DR: It is shown that a parasite with characteristics of Plasmodium vivax is being transmitted among Duffy blood group-negative inhabitants of Kenya, and positives were found late in the rainy season, when An.