Fabrication of an olfactometer for mosquito behavioural studies

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-25

  Omrani, Seyed Mohammad ^a,b   Vatandoost, Hassan ^a   Oshaghi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Shokri, Fazel ^a   Guerin, Patrick M ^c   Ershadi, Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi ^a   Rassi, Yavar ^a   Tirgari, Siavash ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Host seeking; Iran; Mosquito; Olfactometer; Olfactory behaviour

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM TETRACHLORIDE;

AIR; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BUILDING MATERIAL; HEATING; HUMIDITY; INCANDESCENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LIGHT; MONITORING; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OLFACTOMETER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SMOKE; STIMULUS; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; WIND;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULICIDAE; ENTOMOLOGY; HUMANS; IRAN; ODORS; SMELL;

EID: 77949525641     PISSN: 09729062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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