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Parasitic Malaria Prorogation Through Mosquito Host

This website is a student project and was created to inform the general public and fellow scientist about a current topic in scientific research and its significance to furthering human knowledge. The topic that will be discussed on this website is "Parasitic Malaria Prorogation Through Mosquito Host" and is based on the scientific paper "Real Time, in vivo analysis of malaria ookinete locomotion and mosquito midgut invasion," by Dina Vlachou, Timo Zimmermann, Rafael Cantera, Chris J. Janse, Andrew P. Walters and Fotis C. Kafatos. This paper was published by Cellular Microbiology in 2004. The details of this paper and its experiemtns have been simplified here for the understanding of a borader range of readers.

Cartoon Picture of a Mosquito from Microsoft Clip Art

This website was created by students at the University of Arizona for fulfillment of Honors Introductory Biology (Ecol 181H) assignment. The faculty mentor overseeing this project and offering professional advice was Dr. Michael Riehle, an Assistant Professor in the Entomology Department at the University of Arizona.