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PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 66, Issue 9, Pages 925-935Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1974
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insect repellent; DEET; chemical structure; olfaction
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Research on mosquito chemical repellents continues to advance, along with knowledge of mosquito olfaction and behavior, mosquito-host interactions and chemical structure. New tools and technologies have revealed information about insect olfactory mechanisms and processing, providing a more complex approach for the interpretation of how chemical repellents influence host-seeking and feeding behavior. Even with these advances, there is still a large amount of information contained in the early works on insect repellents. Many of the standard test methods and chemicals that are still used for evaluating active repellents were developed in the 1940s. These studies contain valuable references to the activity of different structural classes of chemicals, and serve as a guide to optimization of select compounds for insect repellency effects. (C) 2010 Society of Chemical Industry
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