A taste for humans: How disease-carrying mosquitoes evolved to specialize in biting us

Friday, July 24, 2020 - 09:51 in Paleontology & Archaeology

There are two paths. One leads to the arm of Noah Rose, a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. The other leads to a guinea pig. For some species of mosquitoes, their preference for humans reveals something about their evolution — and the ecology of their ancestral homes. New research, published July 23 in the […]

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