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A persistent behavioral state enables sustained predation of humans by mosquitoes

2021-10-07

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Predatory animals pursue prey in a noisy sensory landscape, deciding when to continue or abandon their chase. The mosquito Aedes aegypti is a micropredator that first detects humans at a distance through sensory cues such as carbon dioxide. As a mosquito nears its target it senses more proximal cues such as body heat that guides it to a meal of blood. How long the search for blood continues after initial detectio...

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Literature Corpus work: afbb0161-959c-5bf6-a7fa-c24b52887212
DOI: 10.1101/2021.10.06.463436

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