Multi-Cue Integration: How Female Mosquitoes Locate a Human Host

Ring T Cardé

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.057

Multi-Cue Integration: How Female Mosquitoes Locate a Human Host

Curr Biol. 2015 Sep 21;25(18):R793-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.057.

Author

Ring T Cardé¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. Electronic address: ring.carde@ucr.edu.

PMID: 26394099
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.057

Abstract

To reproduce, the female yellow fever mosquito has to find a human host. There are many potential cues available to guide such navigation: exhaled carbon dioxide, a plethora of skin odors, the host's visual and heat signatures and, close by, moisture. Recent work is shedding new light on how these are integrated by the mosquito in targeting a human host.

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MeSH terms

Aedes / physiology*
Animals
Cues*
Female
Male
Smell*
Vision, Ocular*