The roles of kairomones, synomones and pheromones in the chemically-mediated behaviour of male mosquitoes

Acta Tropica

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pitts, R Jason ^a   Mozuraitis, Raimondas ^b,c   Gauvin Bialecki, Anne ^d   Lempérière, Guy ^e  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Kairomone; Male mosquito; Odour; Pheromone; Semiochemical; Synomone

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT; KAIROMONE DERIVATIVE; NATURAL PRODUCT; PHEROMONE DERIVATIVE; SEX PHEROMONE; SYNOMONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT;

CHEMICAL CUE; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CHEMICAL METHOD; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; MOSQUITO; PHEROMONE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT SWARM; MALE; MATING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; VECTOR CONTROL;

HEXAPODA;

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; KAIROMONE; MALE MOSQUITO; ODOUR; PHEROMONE; SEMIOCHEMICAL; SYNOMONE;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84896547338     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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