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Aedes aegypti mosquitoes use their legs to sense DEET on contact

DEET (N, N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) is the most effective and widely used insect repellent, but its mechanism of action is both complex and controversial [1]. DEET acts on insect smell [2–6] and taste [7–11], and its olfactory mode of action requires the odorant co-receptor orco [2, 3, 6]. We previou...

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Publicado en:Curr Biol
Main Authors: Dennis, Emily J., Goldman, Olivia V., Vosshall, Leslie B.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6504582/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31031114
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.004
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