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Should trials of this compound as a natural repellent be stopped since there is doubt it may actually be attractive at low levels? When a high-visibility journal like Nature publishes a incomplete…
Should trials of this compound as a natural repellent be stopped since there is doubt it may actually be attractive at low levels? When a high-visibility journal like Nature publishes a incomplete…
After reading the publications I agree with both peers - that there is a lot of confusion for the role of human odour sulcatone, and now I think also for the role of AaegOr4 gene...
We agree with the comment that an AaegOr4 mutant would be very interesting, and something that we pursued quite actively over the 6 years of experimentation that led to this Nature Article...
Thank you for your comment on our work. You note that preference for humans in Aedes aegypti is associated with an enhanced ability to detect sulcatone (McBride et al...
Aedes aegypti mosquites transmit the Dengu virus which harms many thousands of people in Brazil and also in latin Americas, Africa, Asia and in the tropics and therefore there has been a lot of work…