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Carbon dioxide and blood-feeding shift visual cue tracking during navigation in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

Haematophagous mosquitoes need a blood meal to complete their reproductive cycle. To accomplish this, female mosquitoes seek vertebrate hosts, land on them and bite. As their eggs mature, they shift attention away from hosts and towards finding sites to lay eggs. We asked whether females were more t...

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Autores principales: Barredo, Elina, Raji, Joshua I., Ramon, Michael, DeGennaro, Matthew, Theobald, Jamie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9514554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36166270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0270