Functional classification and central nervous projections of olfactory receptor neurons housed in antennal trichoid sensilla of female yellow fever mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1611-1623

  Ghaninia, Majid ^a,b   Ignell, Rickard ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Antennal sensilla; Olfaction; ORNs; Physiology

Indexed keywords

4 METHYLCYCLOHEXANOL; HEXANOL; INDOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EGG LAYING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTYPY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MICROELECTRODES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SENSE ORGANS;

EID: 34548685602     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05786.x     Document Type: Article

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