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Mosquitoes Use Several Different Kinds of Odor Sensors to Track Human Prey

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avatar Mosquitoes Use Several Different Kinds of Odor Sensors to Track Human Prey
August 31, 2010 06:56PM
ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2010) — It now appears that the malaria mosquito needs more than one family of odor sensors to sniff out its human prey. That is the implication of new research into the mosquito's sense of smell published in the Aug. 31 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, published by the Public Library of Science.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100831172433.htm
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