Responses of antennal olfactory receptors in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti to human body odours

CIBA Foundation Symposia

Volumn , Issue 200, 1996, Pages 254-266

  Pappenberger, Barbara ^a   Geier, Martin ^a   Boeckh, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ODORS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT;

EID: 0030331730     PISSN: 03005208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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