The response of the blood-sucking bug Triatoma infestans to carbon dioxide and other host odours

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 319-329

  Barrozo, Romina B ^a   Lazzari, Claudio R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Carbon dioxide; Chagas' disease; Host location; Semiochemicals; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

1 OCTEN 3 OL; CARBON DIOXIDE; LACTIC ACID; OCTANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1-OCTEN-3-OL;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; ODOR; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; STARVATION; TRIATOMA;

HEXAPODA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; OCTANOLS; ODORS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STARVATION; TRIATOMA;

EID: 4744366365     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh035     Document Type: Article

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