How Octenol Guides Mosquitoes To Mammalian Hosts

Scientists from the U.S. department of Agriculture have discovered how The Aedes aegypti mosquito detects the chemical structure of a compound called octenol as one way to find a mammalian host for a blood meal. Scientists have long known that mosquitoes can detect octenol, but this most recent finding, published in PLoS One, explains in greater detail how Ae. aegypti--and possibly other mosquito species--detect the compound. read more

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