Landing responses of Anopheles gambiae elicited by oxocarboxylic acids

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 126-132

  Healy, Tim P ^a   Copland, M J W ^a   Cork, A ^a   Przyborowska, A ^a   Halket, J M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 oxopentanoic acid; Anopheles gambiae; Attractants; Host seeking; Human sweat; Landing behaviour; Mosquitoes; Oxocarboxylic acids; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID; VALERIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; HOST LOCATION; MOSQUITO;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FLYING; HUMAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SWEAT; TEMPERATURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; PENTANOIC ACIDS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SWEAT; TEMPERATURE; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 0036282935     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2002.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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