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Olfaction: Repellents that Congest the Mosquito Nose

How does the common insect repellent DEET modify a mosquito’s ability to detect humans? New research using GCaMP-expressing mosquitoes suggests that DEET works differently for different mosquito species. For An. coluzzii, DEET and other non-volatile repellents mask the mosquitoes’ ability to detect...

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Published in:Curr Biol
Main Author: Riffell, Jeffrey A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144811/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31689395
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.053
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