Hold your breath - Differential behavioral and sensory acuity of mosquitoes to acetone and carbon dioxide.

Host seeking in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles coluzzii, relies on specific and generic host-derived odorants. Previous analyses indicate that the behavioral response of these species depends differentially on the presence of carbon dioxide (CO2...

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Main Authors: Majid Ghaninia, Shahid Majeed, Teun Dekker, Sharon R Hill, Rickard Ignell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226815