The role of olfaction in host preference by Aedes (Stegomyia) simpsoni and Ae.aegypti

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dc.contributor.authorMukwaya, L. G.
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dc.date.issued1976
dc.description.abstractHost preference in females of the mosquitoes Aedes simpsoni (Theo.) and Aedes aegypti (L) appears to be based largely on responses to specific odours at short range, with the site of olfaction being the antennae. In blank Y‐olfactometer tests, 48 % of an anthropophilic (llobi) strain of Ae. aegypti responded to one arm and 52% to the other. However, presented with a man's hand in one arm of the olfacto‐meter and a whole rat, Arvicanthis niloticus, in the other, 65% responded to man and 35% to the rat. With the same strain in a blank Gouck's type of olfactometer, the response was very poor, only 1 % of the mosquitoes in the olfactometer responded at all, again with no preference for either side. On the introduction of the same hosts into the Gouck's olfactometer, the total response was c. 31 %, of which 72 % responded to man and 28 % to the rat. Elimination of some visual cues affected neither the total response nor the preference. Removing one antenna, reduced the preference for man from about 70 % in the normal mosquitoes to about 58%. The total response remained approximately the same as in the normal mosquitoes. Removing both antennae, in both Ae. aegypti and Ae. simpsoni, caused a sharp depression in the total response and in host discrimination.
dc.identifier.citationMukwaya, L. G. (1976). The role of olfaction in host preference by Aedes (Stegomyia) simpsoni and Ae. aegypti. Physiological Entomology, 1(4), 271-276.
dc.identifier.urihttps://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-3032.1976.tb00976.x
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/11581
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPhysiological Entomology
dc.titleThe role of olfaction in host preference by Aedes (Stegomyia) simpsoni and Ae.aegypti
dc.typeArticle
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