气味
嗅觉
生物
嗅觉线索
寄主(生物学)
嗅觉系统
嗅觉感受器
感觉线索
动物
沟通
生态学
神经科学
心理学
作者
Iliano V. Coutinho-Abreu,Jeffrey A. Riffell,Omar S. Akbari
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.pt.2021.09.012
摘要
Female mosquitoes use chemical and physical cues, including vision, smell, heat, and humidity, to orient toward hosts. Body odors are produced by skin resident bacteria that convert metabolites secreted in sweat into odorants that confer the characteristic body scent. Mosquitoes detect these compounds using olfactory receptors in their antennal olfactory receptor neurons. Such information is further integrated with the senses of temperature and humidity, as well as vision, processed in the brain into a behavioral output, leading to host finding. Knowledge of human scent components unveils a variety of odorants that are attractive to mosquitoes, but also odor-triggering repellency. Finding ways to divert human-seeking behavior by female mosquitoes using odorants can possibly mitigate mosquito-borne pathogen transmission.
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