Malaria disease have a great impact in social health, and for this reason the interactions between the malarial parasite and the mosquito vector can be ellucidated by different methods including transcriptomics. RNA-seq is a new approach that by a comparison of the transcriptome of a organism in different conditions, can provide a catalogue of differentially expressed genes constituting a crucial information for selection of potential targets for malaria candidate vaccines. Confirmed by qPCR and assembled with knockdown-silencing assays, the eventual relevant role of these genes in the...

Plasmodium spp. and Leishmania are the causing parasites to malaria and leishmaniasis, two widely spread diseases that are still responsible for millions of cases worldwide every year. The proteins in study, AGAP007752-PA (Anopheles gambiae) and α-tubulin (Plasmodium spp. and Leishmania infantum), are thought to be relevant in decreasing parasite transmission by affecting their life cycles. The aim is to use recombinant versions of those proteins to develop new control strategies to diminish disease incidence. In order to further the AGAP007752-PA research, the gene was amplified, cloned...