Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Evolution of sexually-transferred steroids in Anopheles mosquitoes
E. Pondeville, N. Puchot, M. Lang…·C. Bourgouin
The paper analyzes the evolution of sexually-transferred steroids in Anopheles mosquitoes and finds that male steroid production and transfer are specific to the Cellia subgenus and not correlated with malaria transmission.
DOI 10.1038/s41598-019-41094-4