While obtaining a blood meal from a host, the female mosquito injects some of its own saliva into the skin. The saliva contains anticoagulants and anti-inflammation substances that prevent the host’s ...

coming out of a mosquito's mouth, also called a proboscis (2). At this stage in its life cycle, a plasmodium can be up to 14 micrometers long, or roughly five times smaller than the width of a human ...

But virtually all other cells have a primary cilium. Likewise, for many years it was generally assumed that the entire phylum Nematoda, comprising roundworms, completely lacked cilia or flagella.

And that means bug bites. When a mosquito bites you, it pierces the skin using a mouthpart called a proboscis to suck up ...

Male proboscis monkeys weigh about 20 kilograms while females are roughly half that. The long nose is only found in males. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...