LGALS4 and infection: The mean P. falciparum oocyst infection intensity of the MBL24/Gal4 UAS::LRIM1-silencer mosquitoes expressing the hairpin silencing construct was 86.0 oocysts/midgut (mean of geometric means for three independent experiments) compared to 8.0 oocysts/midgut in wild type mosquitoes, and 35.7 oocysts/midgut or 35.3 oocysts/midgut in transgenic mosquitoes with only the GAL4 element or UAS LRIM1 silencer element, respectively (Fig. 8a).