Characterization of antennal trichoid sensilla from female Southern house mosquito, culex quinquefasciatus say

Chemical Senses

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 231-252

  Hill, Sharon R ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^a,b   Ignell, Rickard ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemoreception; Electrophysiology; Host cues; Olfactory receptor neurons; Oviposition cues; Plant volatiles; Semiochemicals and southern house mosquito

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HOST SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CULEX; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ODORS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SMELL;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS;

EID: 60849126431     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjn080     Document Type: Article

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