Assessment of diet choice by the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 274-286

  Ignell, Rickard ^a   Okawa, Satoshi ^a   Englund, Jan Eric ^a   Hill, Sharon R ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Contact chemoreception; Feeding cues; Taste; Two choice assay; Yellow fever mosquito

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD QUALITY; GLUCOSE; HONEYDEW; HOST PREFERENCE; MOSQUITO; NECTAR; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; TASTE; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 77955756772     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2010.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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