Acute olfactory response of Culex mosquitoes to a human- and bird-derived attractant

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

Volumn 106, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 18803-18808

  Syed, Zainulabeuddin ^a   Leal, Walter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird odorants; Human odorants across different ethnicities; Nonanal baited traps; Semiochemicals; Single sensillum recordings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMELLING;

ALDEHYDES; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CULEX; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PHEROMONES; PHEROMONES, HUMAN; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

AVES; COLUMBA; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; GALLUS GALLUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 73249116414     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906932106     Document Type: Article

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