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- Title
Studies on the responses of the female Aedes Mosquito. X.—Comparison of oestrogens and amino acids as attractants.
- Authors
Roessler, P.; Brown, A. W. A.
- Abstract
The attractiveness of oestriol and of a sample L-lysine to females of Aedes aegypti (L.) was tested (a) in an olfactometer of the Wieting-Hoskins type, and (b) in a free-flight cage enclosed in glass. Similar results were given by both methods, L-lysine being the more attractive at higher concentrations, but oestriol retaining its attractiveness down to much lower concentrations. When 27 L-amino acids were tested in the free-flight cage, 16 showed significantly positive stimulation. Of these lysine was the most attractive, representing a group of 11 which carried CO2 in carbaminoyl or adsorbed form or in both; the other five, of which tyrosine was the most attractive, carried no CO2.
- Publication
Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1964, Vol 55, Issue 3, p395
- ISSN
0007-4853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0007485300049543