Heritability of attractiveness to mosquitoes
(2015)
Journal Article
Mandela Fernández-Grandon, G., Gezan, S. A., Armour, J. A., Pickett, J. A., & Logan, J. G. (in press). Heritability of attractiveness to mosquitoes. PLoS ONE, 10(4), Article e0122716. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122716
Female mosquitoes display preferences for certain individuals over others, which is determined by differences in volatile chemicals produced by the human body and detected by mosquitoes. Body odour can be controlled genetically but the existence of a... Read More about Heritability of attractiveness to mosquitoes.