Carboxylic acids that drive mosquito attraction to humans activate Ionotropic Receptors

Abstract excerpt

Female mosquitoes are attracted to sources of blood by responding to odor plumes that are emitted by their preferred hosts. Acidic volatile compounds, including carboxylic acids, represent particularly salient odors driving this attraction. Importantly, carboxylic acids are major constituents of human sweat and volatiles generated by skin microbes. As such, they are likely to impact human host preference, which is...

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• Chemotactic Factors
• Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
• Insect Utilization and Effects
• Mosquito-borne diseases and control
• Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
• Odorants
• Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
• Receptors, Odorant

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Literature Corpus work

e202f649-592a-5bab-8e8b-e09f93104fc9

DOI

10.1101/2022.10.20.513041