Fruitless mutant male mosquitoes gain attraction to human odor

The Aedes aegypti mosquito shows extreme sexual dimorphism in feeding. Only females are attracted to and obtain a blood-meal from humans, which they use to stimulate egg production. The fruitless gene is sex-specifically spliced and encodes a BTB zinc-finger transcription factor proposed to be a mas...

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Autores principales: Basrur, Nipun S, De Obaldia, Maria Elena, Morita, Takeshi, Herre, Margaret, von Heynitz, Ricarda K, Tsitohay, Yael N, Vosshall, Leslie B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020
Materias:
Genetics and Genomics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7806257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33284111
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63982

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7806257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33284111
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63982

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