Study provides better understanding of how mosquitoes find a host

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 12:36 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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