The Leverhulme lectures were established this year to commemorate the centenary of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Fotis Kafatos, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, discusses how molecular genetic analysis is helping to elucidate the interaction between mosquitoes and malaria parasites, the subject of the first Leverhulme lecture.
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Richman, A., Kafatos, F. Malaria: In the belly of the beast. Nat Med 4, 552–553 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0598-552
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