Mosquitoes use vision to associate odor plumes with thermal targets

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 2123-2129

  Van Breugel, Floris ^a   Riffell, Jeff ^b   Fairhall, Adrienne ^b   Dickinson, Michael H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES;

FRAGRANCE;

AEDES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; MALE; ODOR; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEMALE; MALE; ODORANTS; ORIENTATION; SMELL; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84939569432     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.046     Document Type: Article

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