Smelling your way to food: Can bed bugs use our odour?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 623-629

  Harraca, V ^a   Ryne, C ^a   Birgersson, G ^b   Ignell, R ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Chemoreception; Cimex lectularius; Electrophysiology; Host cue; Single sensillum recording

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIMEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSILLUM;

ANIMALS; BEDBUGS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; ODORS; PHEROMONES, HUMAN; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SENSILLA; SMELL;

CIMEX; CIMEX LECTULARIUS; CIMICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84856557663     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.065748     Document Type: Article

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