Dengue, caused by the dengue virus, is the most widespread arboviral infectious disease of
public health significance globally. This review explores the communicative function of …

Highlights•Mosquito vectors can evolve behavioural adaptations in response to vector
control.•Observed behavioural shifts in the field concern biting time/site and bitten host …

Mosquitoes are important vectors of disease and require sources of carbohydrates for
reproduction and survival. Unlike host-related behaviors of mosquitoes, comparatively less …

Blood feeding is a fundamental mosquito behavior with consequences for pathogen
transmission and control. Feeding behavior can be studied through two lenses–patterns and …

Female mosquitoes use chemical and physical cues, including vision, smell, heat, and
humidity, to orient toward hosts. Body odors are produced by skin resident bacteria that …

There are 3559 species of mosquitoes in the world (Harbach 2018) but, so far, only a
handful of them have been a focus of olfactory neuroscience and neurobiology research …

Geosmin is one of the most recognizable and common microbial smells on the planet. Some
insects, like mosquitoes, require microbial-rich environments for their progeny, whereas for …

Background Three arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) causing human disease have
been the focus of a large number of studies in the Americas since 2013 due to their global …

Mosquitoes rely on the integration of multiple sensory cues, including olfactory, visual, and
thermal stimuli, to detect, identify, and locate their hosts [1–4]. Although we increasingly …

Loss-of-function technologies, such as morpholino-and RNAi-mediated gene knockdown,
and TALEN-and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockout, are widely used to investigate …