Forty-two compounds in eleven essential oils elicit antennal responses from Aedes aegypti

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-32

  Campbell, Cory ^a   Gries, Regine ^a   Gries, Gerhard ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culicidae; Diptera; Electrophysiology; Gas chromatographic electroantennographic detection; GC EAD; Minor constituents; Mosquito; Repellence; Yellow fever

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOSQUITO; REPELLENT;

AEDES AEGYPTI; CINNAMOMUM VERUM; CITRONELLA; CULICIDAE; CUMINUM CYMINUM; DIPTERA; EUCALYPTUS; HEXAPODA; MELISSA; MELISSA OFFICINALIS; MENTHA X PIPERITA; NEPETA CATARIA; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS; THYMUS VULGARIS; ZINGIBER OFFICINALE;

EID: 78650072844     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01072.x     Document Type: Article

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