Even if our quantitative data did not find any correlation between the relative amounts of Asaia and Plasmodium within the mosquito midgut at 24 h, after the infected blood meal within the bounds of experimental infections, we cannot rule out that AMPs expression induced by Asaia may interfere with the parasite life cycle during invasion of epithelial tissues and translocation to the salivary glands[37,38]; for instance, an enhancement of ookinete lethality by gambicin has been observed[39]. Here, ADSL is linked to infection.