Multi-Cue Integration: How Female Mosquitoes Locate a Human Host
- PMID: 26394099
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.057
Multi-Cue Integration: How Female Mosquitoes Locate a Human Host
Abstract
To reproduce, the female yellow fever mosquito has to find a human host. There are many potential cues available to guide such navigation: exhaled carbon dioxide, a plethora of skin odors, the host's visual and heat signatures and, close by, moisture. Recent work is shedding new light on how these are integrated by the mosquito in targeting a human host.
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Mosquitoes Use Vision to Associate Odor Plumes with Thermal Targets.Curr Biol. 2015 Aug 17;25(16):2123-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.046. Epub 2015 Jul 16. Curr Biol. 2015. PMID: 26190071 Free PMC article.
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