image: This shows an Anopheles gambiae female blood feeding. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the May 9, 2013, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Alvaro Molina-Cruz at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health in Rockville, Md., and colleagues was titled, "The Human Malaria Parasite Pfs47 Gene Mediates Evasion of the Mosquito Immune System." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Jose Luis Ramirez, LMVR, NIAID, NIH]