Sensory Discrimination of Blood and Floral Nectar by Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

Veronica Jové; Zhongyan Gong; Felix J.H. Hol; Zhilei Zhao; Trevor R. Sorrells; Thomas S. Carroll; Manu Prakash; Carolyn S. McBride; Leslie B. Vosshall

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.019

Sensory Discrimination of Blood and Floral Nectar by Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

Veronica Jové, Zhongyan Gong, Felix J.H. Hol, Zhilei Zhao, Trevor R. Sorrells, Thomas S. Carroll, Manu Prakash, Carolyn S. McBride, Leslie B. Vosshall

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Abstract

Jové et al. characterize specialized blood-feeding sensory neurons in female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and demonstrate that they encode the distinction between blood and floral nectar. Polymodal integrator neurons respond to glucose only in the presence of additional blood components, allowing mosquitoes to discriminate these two appetizing food sources.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1163-1180.e12
Journal	Neuron
Volume	108
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.019
State	Published - Dec 23 2020

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General Neuroscience

Keywords

Aedes aegypti
GCaMP calcium imaging
blood-feeding behavior
chemogenetics
gustatory receptors
ionotropic receptors
mosquito
nectar-feeding behavior
stylet
taste

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Sensory Discrimination of Blood and Floral Nectar by Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

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