The fact that other antimicrobial effectors, such us lysozyme (this study) and TEP22 (Wang et al., 2015; Ramirez et al., 2018a) have been found to be elicited at early times of fungal infection, might indicate that a somewhat delayed AMP expression is part of the mosquito antifungal strategy, with AMP recruitment as the second line of effector response to limit the spread of fungal infection. This evidence concerns the gene LYZ and fungal infectious disease.