pathogens Article Delineating the Role of Aedes aegypti ABC Transporter Gene Family during Mosquito Development and Arboviral Infection via Transcriptome Analyses Vikas Kumar 1 , Shilpi Garg 1, Lalita Gupta 2, Kuldeep Gupta 3 , Cheikh Tidiane Diagne 4 , Dorothée Missé 4 , Julien Pompon 4 , Sanjeev Kumar 5,*,† and Vishal Saxena 1,*,† 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani Campus, Pilani 333031, India;
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[email protected] (V.S.) † Both the authors contributed equally. Citation: Kumar, V.; Garg, S.; Gupta, L.; Gupta, K.; Diagne, C.T.; Missé, D.; Abstract: Aedes aegypti acts as a vector for several arboviral diseases that impose a major socio- Pompon, J.; Kumar, S.; Saxena, V. economic burden. Moreover, the absence of a vaccine against these diseases and drug resistance in Delineating the Role of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes necessitates the development of new control strategies for vector-borne diseases.