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Generic Insect Repellent Detector from the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster

BACKGROUND: Insect repellents are prophylactic tools against a number of vector-borne diseases. There is growing demand for repellents outperforming DEET in cost and safety, but with the current technologies R&D of a new product takes almost 10 years, with a prohibitive cost of $30 million dolla...

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Autores principales: Syed, Zainulabeuddin, Pelletier, Julien, Flounders, Eric, Chitolina, Rodrigo F., Leal, Walter S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3059203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21436880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017705