The treacherous scent of a human

Walter S. Leal
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Walter S. Leal: University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA. wsleal@ucdavis.edu

Nature, 2010, vol. 464, issue 7285, 37-38

Abstract: Mosquitoes' odorant receptors help the insects to find humans and, inadvertently, to transmit malaria. The identification of the odorants that bind to these receptors opens up ways of reducing mosquito biting.

Date: 2010
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