Study Provides a Better Understanding of How Mosquitoes Find a Host

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 10:21 in Biology & Nature

The potentially deadly yellow-fever-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquito detects the specific chemical structure of a compound called octenol as one way to find a mammalian host for a blood meal.

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