Olfactory Responses and Field Attraction of Mosquitoes to Volatiles from Limburger Cheese and Human Foot Odor

Journal of Vector Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 186-194

  Kline, Daniel L ^a  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Foot odor; Host seeking; Kairomones; Limburger cheese; Mosquitoes; Olfactometer

Indexed keywords

AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEESE; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ODOR; VOLATILIZATION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CHEESE; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; MOVEMENT; ODORS; SMELL; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0032252951     PISSN: 10811710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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