| Autor: |
Diego Alonso San Alberto, Claire Rusch, Yinpeng Zhan, Andrew D. Straw, Craig Montell, Jeffrey A. Riffell |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2041-1723 |
| DOI: |
10.1038/s41467-022-28195-x |
| Popis: |
Vision in mosquitoes plays a critical but understudied role in their attraction to hosts. Here, the authors show that encounter with an attractive odor gates the mosquito attraction to specific colors, especially the long wavelengths reflected from human skin. Filtering the long wavelengths reflected from the human skin or knocking-out the ability for the mosquito to detect the wavelengths, suppressed their attraction. This work transforms our understanding of mosquito vision from the conventional view that vision does little in mediating mosquito-host interactions, to the recognition that vision plays a critical role. |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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