Natural odor ligands for olfactory receptor neurons of the female mosquito Aedes aegypti: Use of gas chromatography-linked single sensillum recordings

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3020-3027

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

^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; Biologically active volatiles; Electrophysiology; Olfactory receptor neurons

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE;

ADULT; AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMELLING; STIMULATION; VOLATILIZATION;

ADULT; AEDES; ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; VOLATILIZATION;

AEDES AEGYPTI; HEXAPODA; NEPETA; NEPETA FAASSENII;

EID: 54349084327     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.016360     Document Type: Article

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