Human blood microRNA hsa-miR-21-5p induces vitellogenin in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Perdomo et al. fed mosquitos (Aedes aegypti) a diet spiked with human blood miRNA, hsa-miR-21-5p and used proteomics analysis to show differential protein expression in female Ae. aegypti mosquitoes after feeding. They showed that hsa-miR-21-5p positively regulated vitellogenin, which plays a role i...

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Main Authors: Hugo D. Perdomo, Mazhar Hussain, Rhys Parry, Kayvan Etebari, Lauren M. Hedges, Guangmei Zhang, Benjamin L. Schulz, Sassan Asgari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02385-7