Factors modulating the blood feeding behavior and the electrophysiological responses of labral apical chemoreceptors to adenine nucleotides in the mosquito Aedes aegypti (Culicidae)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 801-808

  Werner Reiss, U ^a   Galun, R ^a   Crnjar, R ^b   Liscia, A ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Buffer; Labral apical chemoreceptors; PH; Phagostimulants

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BICARBONATE; BUFFER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL ACTIVITY; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0032794746     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(98)00153-X     Document Type: Article

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