Conditioning individual mosquitoes to an odor: Sex, source, and time

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Sanford, Michelle R ^a   Tomberlin, Jeffery K ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING; SUGAR INTAKE; AGE; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS;

CARBOHYDRATE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CULICIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; ODORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 80052073576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024218     Document Type: Article

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