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Climate and urbanization drive mosquito preference for humans
2020-02-13
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<h4>Summary</h4> The majority of mosquito-borne illness is spread by a few mosquito species that have evolved to specialize in biting humans, yet the precise causes of this behavioral shift are poorly understood. We address this gap in the arboviral vector Aedes aegypti . We first characterize the behaviour of mosquitoes from 27 sites scattered across the species’ ancestral range in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7e97384a-6b43-5b4f-b5ae-a3467e67f43b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.02.12.939041