The specimens were collected during the rainy season. The climate of the area is "As" following Koeppen's system, with two distinct seasons: a dry summer and a wet winter (Kottek et al. 2006).

Mosquito antennae have a main antennal shaft, or flagellum, and a secondary segment that contains the Johnston’s Organ—thought to be the most complex known insect organ capable of responding to ...

Mosquito antennae have a main antennal shaft, or flagellum, and a secondary segment that contains the Johnston’s Organ—thought to be the most complex known insect organ capable of responding ...

Through analysis of the mosquitoes' antennal features -- particularly the arrangement and morphology of sensory hairs -- civil and construction engineering PhD candidate and team researcher Phani ...

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China ...

Early research had suggested that each neuron expresses just one type of receptor, and that all the neurons expressing a particular receptor link to a dedicated olfactory nerve cluster (called a ...

Our experiments show that antennal mechanosensory feedback specifically mediates fast flight manoeuvres, but not slow ones. Moreover, we did not observe compensatory interactions between antennal and ...

Loss of the sense of smell is among the first signs of natural aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Cellular and molecular mechanisms promoting this smell loss are ...