Mosquitoes smell and avoid the insect repellent DEET

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

Volumn 105, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 13598-13603

  Syed, Zainulabeuddin ^a   Leal, Walter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DEET mode of action; DEET detecting neuron; Fixative effect of DEET; Mosquito olfaction; Surface landing bioassay

Indexed keywords

1 OCTEN 3 OL; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; INSECT REPELLENT; TERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIOASSAY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOSQUITO; NERVE CELL; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SMELLING; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CULICIDAE; DEET; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT REPELLENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SMELL;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 51649112411     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805312105     Document Type: Article

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