@article{M2013,
title = {Silencing of Genes and Alleles by RNAi in Anopheles gambiae},
author = {Marina Lamacchia and John Randy Clayton and R Wang-Sattler and Lars M Steinmetz and Elena A Levashina and Stéphanie A Blandin},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-06-13},
journal = {Methods Mol Biol.},
volume = {923},
pages = {161-76},
abstract = {Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes are the major vectors of human malaria parasites. However, mosquitoes are not passive hosts for parasites, actively limiting their development in vivo. Our current understanding of the mosquito antiparasitic response is mostly based on the phenotypic analysis of gene knockdowns obtained by RNA interference (RNAi), through the injection or transfection of long dsRNAs in adult mosquitoes or cultured cells, respectively. Recently, RNAi has been extended to silence specifically one allele of a given gene in a heterozygous context, thus allowing to compare the contribution of different alleles to a phenotype in the same genetic background.},
keywords = {blandin, dsRNA, M3i, RNAi},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes are the major vectors of human malaria parasites. However, mosquitoes are not passive hosts for parasites, actively limiting their development in vivo. Our current understanding of the mosquito antiparasitic response is mostly based on the phenotypic analysis of gene knockdowns obtained by RNA interference (RNAi), through the injection or transfection of long dsRNAs in adult mosquitoes or cultured cells, respectively. Recently, RNAi has been extended to silence specifically one allele of a given gene in a heterozygous context, thus allowing to compare the contribution of different alleles to a phenotype in the same genetic background.