Heritability of attractiveness to mosquitoes
Female mosquitoes display preferences for certain individuals over others, which is determined by differences in volatile chemicals produced by the human body and detected by mosquitoes. Body odour can be controlled genetically but the existence of a genetic basis for differential attraction to inse...
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Public Library of Science
2015
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34283/ |