Polarized light and oviposition site selection in the yellow fever mosquito: No evidence for positive polarotaxis in Aedes aegypti

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1449-1455

  Bernáth, Balázs ^a,b   Horváth, Gábor ^c   Gál, József ^b   Fekete, Gábor ^a   Meyer Rochow, Victor Benno ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Egg laying; Oviposition site selection; Polarization pattern; Polarization vision; Polarized light; Water detection; Yellow fever mosquito

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 44649105050     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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