Professor University of Washington Seattle, Washington
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can be trained to associate specific odor cues with appetitive or aversive stimuli. Wild mosquitoes may use these associations to prefer hosts that they have previously succeeded in feeding from, or, conversely, to avoid hosts with strong defensive behaviors. However, not all odor cues can be learned equally well, and information from learnable and unlearnable odor cues is processed in different ways in the antennal lobe of the brain. We will present results of screening multiple odors for learnability and associated differences in the mosquito brain.
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