Talk:Engineered bacterial symbionts of Anopheles gambiae as inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum

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==Introduction Comments "the erythrocytic stage which is the phase at which the host red blood cells are infected with the Plasmodium parasite"

  - Phrasing is slightly awkward.

"In the past two decades, malaria vaccine development has expanded to target the three different stages of Plasmodium development: (1) the initial stage of mosquito vector to host transmission, which is the stage of liver cell infection; (2) the erythrocytic stage which is the phase at which the host red blood cells are infected with the Plasmodium parasite; (3) the sexual stage, which is the phase at which the mosquito has taken up the parasite, and Plasmodium sexually reproduces midgut of the vector."

 - It might be helpful to direct the reader to figure 2 at somepoint in the above paragraph.

"With a large microbiota population colonizing the midgut of the mosquito, this compartment becomes a highly competitive environment for symbiotic bacteria as well as pathogenic bacteria"

- Could be restructured "The midgut of the mosquito is colonized by a large population of microbiota, fostering a highly competitive environment..." but it is fine. 

"can be effected by microbiota"

- I believe affected may be more appropriate here.

Lifecycle comments

"pre erythrocytic stage of the Plasmodium life cycle."

-pre-erythrocytic

Microbial Symbiosis of Anopheles gambiae comments

 - Is there information on the potential roles of each of these Asaia, Enterobacter, Mycobacterium, Sphingomonas, Serratia and Chryseobacterium?

General Comments

-Species and organism names need italics. ex. Anopheles gambiae