To combat the deadly diseases spread by mosquitoes, entomologists often turn to the blood-sucking insect’s reproductive life.

Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical questions.

Malaria is transmitted to humans and animals by the female Anopheles mosquito. Even though the disease is curable in its early stages, treatment is expensive and hard to deliver to many of the ...

Female mosquitoes ... Several species of Anopheles are responsible for the majority of transmission in Africa, where the disease causes the most morbidity. In Anopheles mosquitoes, levels of ...

A new malaria mosquito is emerging in African cities, with potentially devastating consequences for those living there, according to a new study. The larvae of Anopheles stephensi – India’s ...

If you could peer into the mind of a female mosquito ... a family of 79 odorant receptors (ORs) in the malaria mosquito (Anopheles gambiae) in hopes of finding better repellents and lures ...

Andrea Cristani of Imperial College London, an international research team started with a caged population of Anopheles gambiae ... as it's only the female mosquitoes that bite.

When a male Anopheles coluzzii mosquito picks up the sound of female-specific wingbeats, his vision becomes active. These findings are detailed in a study published August 30 in the journal ...

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the salivary glands of female Anopheles mosquitoes. Understanding the ...