UC Davis researchers identify dominant chemical that attracts mosquitoes to humans

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 08:28 in Biology & Nature

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odour naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases...

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