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Multimodal floral cues guide mosquitoes to tansy inflorescences

Female mosquitoes exploit olfactory, CO(2), visual, and thermal cues to locate vertebrate hosts. Male and female mosquitoes also consume floral nectar that provides essential energy for flight and survival. Heretofore, nectar-foraging mosquitoes were thought to be guided solely by floral odorants. U...

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Autores principales: Peach, Daniel A. H., Gries, Regine, Zhai, Huimin, Young, Nathan, Gries, Gerhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6405845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30846726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39748-4

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