The molecular and cellular basis of olfactory-driven behavior in Anopheles gambiae larvae

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6433-6438

  Xia, Yuanfeng ^a   Wang, Guirong ^a   Buscariollo, Daniela ^a   Pitts, R Jason ^a   Wenger, Heidi ^a   Zwiebel, Laurence J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Malaria; Odorant receptors; Olfaction; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LARVA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; XENOPUS;

EID: 44049094971     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801007105     Document Type: Article

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