A predator from East Africa that chooses malaria vectors as preferred prey.

<h4>Background</h4>All vectors of human malaria, a disease responsible for more than one million deaths per year, are female mosquitoes from the genus Anopheles. Evarcha culicivora is an East African jumping spider (Salticidae) that feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood by selecting blood...

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Main Authors: Ximena J Nelson, Robert R Jackson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000132