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Visualization of house-entry behaviour of malaria mosquitoes

BACKGROUND: Malaria mosquitoes often blood feed indoors on human hosts. The mosquitoes predominantly enter houses via open eaves. Host-seeking is odour-driven, and finding a host depends on the quality of the odour plume and whether the route towards the host is free of obstructions. Little is known...

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Autores principales: Spitzen, Jeroen, Koelewijn, Teun, Mukabana, W. Richard, Takken, Willem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27108961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1293-7