Mosquitoes use several different kinds of odour sensors to track human prey

It now appears that the malaria mosquito relies on a battery of different types of odour sensors to mediate its most critical behaviours, including how to choose and locate their blood-meal hosts. In an article to be published next week in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology, researchers at Vanderbilt University have characterised two families of molecular odorant sensors in Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito responsible for the majority of human malaria transmission...

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