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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages R41-R46Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.032
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- NIDCD NIH HHS [R00 DC012069] Funding Source: Medline
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Mosquito species that specialize in biting humans are few but dangerous. They include the African malaria vectors Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii, as well as Aedes aegypti, the cosmopolitan vector of dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever. These mosquitoes have evolved a remarkable innate preference for human odor that helps them find and bite us. Here I review what is known about this important evolutionary adaptation, from its historical documentation to its chemical and molecular basis.
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