Close encounters: Contributions of carbon dioxide and human skin odour to finding and landing on a host in Aedes aegypti

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 60-68

  Lacey, Emerson S ^a   Ray, Anandasankar ^a   Cardé, Ring T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemotaxis; Orientation wind tunnel; Yellow fever mosquito

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894094605     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/phen.12048     Document Type: Article

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