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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...
Autores principales: | Basrur, Nipun S, De Obaldia, Maria Elena, Morita, Takeshi, Herre, Margaret, von Heynitz, Ricarda K, Tsitohay, Yael N, Vosshall, Leslie B |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2020
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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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