AEDES AEGYPTI D7 LONG SALIVARY PROTEINS MODULATE BLOOD FEEDING AND PARASITE INFECTION

ABSTRACTMosquito saliva facilitates blood meal acquisition through pharmacologically active compounds that prevent host hemostasis and immune responses.Here, we generated two knockout (KO) mosquito lines by CRISPR/Cas9 to functionally characterize D7L1 and D7L2, two abundantly expressed salivary proteins from the yellow fever mosquito vector Aedes