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Harvey WR, Okech BA, Linser PJ, Becnel JJ, Ahearn GA, Sterling KM. 2010. H(+)V-ATPase-energized transporters in brush border membrane vesicles from whole larvae of Aedes aegypti. J Insect Physiol. 56(10):1377-89

Harvey, W.R. and Okech, B.A. (2010) H⁺, Na⁺, K⁺ and Amino acid transport in Caterpillar and Larval Mosquito Alimentary Canal. In Epithelial Transport Physiology, Editor G. Gerencser, Humana-Springer Verlag, page 113—148.

Harvey, W.R., Boudko^, D.Y and Okech, B.A. (2009) NHEVNAT, H+ V-ATPases Electrically Coupled to Na+: Nutrient Amino acid Transporters (NATs) Constitute Functional Na+/H+ Exchangers (NHEs). Journal of Experimental Biology, 212 (3):347-57

  Okech, BA, Meleshkevitch, EA, Miller, MM, Popova, LB Harvey, WR and Boudko, DY (2008). Synergy and Specificity of Two Na⁺: Amino Acid Symporters in the Alimentary Canal of Model organism, Anopheles gambiae. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211:1594-602.

 Okech, BA, Boudko, DY, Harvey, WR (2008) Cationic pathway of pH regulation in Anopheles gambiae larva. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211, 957 – 968.

 Rheault, MR, Okech, BA, Keen, SBW, Miller, MM, Meleshkevitch, MM, Linser, PJ, Boudko, DY and Harvey, WR (2007). Molecular Cloning, Phylogeny and Localization of a First Alkali Metal Ion/Hydrogen Ion Antiporter a Metazoan Anopheles gambiae (AgNHA1). Journal of Experimental Biology, 210, 3848 -3861.

 Okech, B, Arai, M, Matsuoka, H. (2006). The effects of blood feeding and exogenous supply of tryptophan on the quantities of xanthurenic acid in the salivary glands of Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae).  Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 24;341(4):1113-8

 Okech BA, Gouagna LC, Walczak E, Kabiru EW, Beier JC, Yan G, Githure JI. 2004. The development of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in experimentally infected Anopheles gambiae ss (Diptera: Culicidae) under ambient microhabitat temperature in western Kenya. Acta Tropica, 92 (2) 99 – 108.

 Okech BA, Gouagna LC, Kabiru, EW, Beier JC, Yan G, Githure JI. 2004. Influence of age and previous diet of Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) on the infectivity of natural Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes from human volunteers. J. Insect Sci., 4, 33.

 Okech BA, Gouagna LC, Kabiru EW, Walczak E, Beier JC, Yan G, Githure JI. 2004. Resistance to high temperatures of the early midgut stages of natural isolates Plasmodium falciparum in artificially infected Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes. J. Parasitol., 90 (4) 764 – 768.

 Okech BA, Gouagna LC, Killeen GF, Knols BG, Kabiru EW, Beier JC, Yan G, Githure JI. 2003. The influence of sugar availability and indoor microclimate on the survival of Anopheles gambiae under semi field conditions in western Kenya. J. Med. Entomol., 40, 657 – 663.

 Bousema JT, Gouagna LC, Meutstege AM, Okech BA, Akim NI, Githure JI, Beier JC, Sauerwein RW. 2004. Treatment failure of pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine and induction of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytaemia in children in western Kenya. Trop Med Int Health.8 (5) 427-430.