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 …

Baking soda and vinegar have been used as home remedies for generations and today we
are only a mouse-click away from claims that baking soda, lemon juice, and apple cider …

Female mosquitoes are major vectors of human disease and the most dangerous are those
that preferentially bite humans. A 'domestic'form of the mosquito Aedes aegypti has evolved …

Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed
resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that …

Multiple sensory cues emanating from humans are thought to guide blood-feeding female
mosquitoes to a host. To determine the relative contribution of carbon dioxide (CO 2) …

All moving animals, including flies [1–3], sharks [4], and humans [5], experience a dynamic
sensory landscape that is a function of both their trajectory through space and the …

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

Blood-feeding mosquitoes survive by feeding on nectar for metabolic energy but require a
blood meal to develop eggs. Aedes aegypti females must accurately discriminate blood and …

Insects locate many resources important to survival by tracking along wind-borne odor
plumes to their source. It is well known that plumes are patchy distributions of high …

CO2 elicits a response from many insects, including mosquito vectors of diseases such as
malaria and yellow fever, but the molecular basis of CO2 detection is unknown in insects or …