Olfactory sensing and navigation in turbulent environments

G Reddy, VN Murthy… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Fluid turbulence is a double-edged sword for the navigation of macroscopic animals, such
as birds, insects, and rodents. On the one hand, turbulence enables pheromone …

Access to the odor world: olfactory receptors and their role for signal transduction in insects

J Fleischer, P Pregitzer, H Breer, J Krieger - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2018 - Springer
The sense of smell enables insects to recognize and discriminate a broad range of volatile
chemicals in their environment originating from prey, host plants and conspecifics. These …

[HTML][HTML] Non-canonical odor coding in the mosquito

M Herre, OV Goldman, TC Lu, G Caballero-Vidal, Y Qi… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are a persistent human foe, transmitting arboviruses including
dengue when they feed on human blood. Mosquitoes are intensely attracted to body odor …

Thermal infrared directs host-seeking behaviour in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

A Chandel, NA DeBeaubien, A Ganguly, GT Meyerhof… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Mosquito-borne diseases affect hundreds of millions of people annually and
disproportionately impact the develo** world,. One mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, is a …

[HTML][HTML] A volatile from the skin microbiota of flavivirus-infected hosts promotes mosquito attractiveness

H Zhang, Y Zhu, Z Liu, Y Peng, W Peng, L Tong… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The host-seeking activity of hematophagous arthropods is essential for arboviral
transmission. Here, we demonstrate that mosquito-transmitted flaviviruses can manipulate …

[HTML][HTML] Genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9 in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

KE Kistler, LB Vosshall, BJ Matthews - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
The mosquito Aedes aegypti is a potent vector of the chikungunya, yellow fever, and dengue
viruses, responsible for hundreds of millions of infections and over 50,000 human deaths …

[HTML][HTML] Mosquitoes use vision to associate odor plumes with thermal targets

F Van Breugel, J Riffell, A Fairhall, MH Dickinson - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
All moving animals, including flies [1–3], sharks [4], and humans [5], experience a dynamic
sensory landscape that is a function of both their trajectory through space and the …

A multilevel multimodal circuit enhances action selection in Drosophila

T Ohyama, CM Schneider-Mizell, RD Fetter, JV Aleman… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Natural events present multiple types of sensory cues, each detected by a specialized
sensory modality. Combining information from several modalities is essential for the …

[HTML][HTML] Aedes aegypti mosquitoes detect acidic volatiles found in human odor using the IR8a pathway

JI Raji, N Melo, JS Castillo, S Gonzalez, V Saldana… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Mosquitoes use olfaction as a primary means of detecting their hosts. Previously, the
functional ablation of a family of Aedes aegypti olfactory receptors, the odorant receptors …

The olfactory gating of visual preferences to human skin and visible spectra in mosquitoes

D Alonso San Alberto, C Rusch, Y Zhan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mosquitoes track odors, locate hosts, and find mates visually. The color of a food resource,
such as a flower or warm-blooded host, can be dominated by long wavelengths of the visible …