Mosquitoes bamboozled

Mark Stopfer ()
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Mark Stopfer: Mark Stopfer is at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.

Nature, 2011, vol. 474, issue 7349, 40-41

Abstract: Mosquitoes harbouring the malaria parasite follow pulses of carbon dioxide exhaled by their human prey to track them down. A novel set of chemicals can distract these insects by disrupting their sense of smell. See Letter p.87

Date: 2011
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