{"id":203066,"date":"2025-01-04T06:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/cross-modal-sensory-compensation-increases-mosquito-attraction-to-humans"},"modified":"2025-01-04T06:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T12:35:34","slug":"cross-modal-sensory-compensation-increases-mosquito-attraction-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/cross-modal-sensory-compensation-increases-mosquito-attraction-to-humans","title":{"rendered":"Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cross-modal-sensory-compensation-increases-mosquito-attraction-to-humans3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When unable to smell prey, female <i>Aedes aegypti<\/i> mosquitoes turn to\u2014and upregulate\u2014heat sensors in their legs, new <i><i>Science<\/i> Advances<\/i> research finds.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Fig. 2. <i>Orco<\/i> mutant mosquitoes display enhanced heat-seeking behavior.<\/p>\n<p>(A) Schematic of female body parts that express Orco. (B) Heatmaps showing mean mosquito occupancy for the indicated genotypes on the Peltier (dotted lines) and surrounding area at indicated Peltier temperature during seconds 90 to 180 of each stimulus period. \u00a9 Mean \u00b1 SEM percentage of mosquitoes of indicated genotypes on Peltier (top) during the 36\u00b0C trial (bottom). A 20-s pulse of CO<sub>2<\/sub> was applied at the beginning of each stimulus period. (D) Percent of mosquitoes of indicated genotypes on Peltier during seconds 90 to 180 of stimuli of indicated temperature (mean \u00b1 SEM, n = 9 trials per genotype; data points marked with indicate that the mutant differs significantly from all other tested genotypes within each tested temperature at P &lt; 0.05; one-way ANOVA with Tukey\u2019s HSD post hoc test). (E to G) Mean dwell time (E), landing frequency (F), and take-off frequency (G) of indicated genotypes on the Peltier surface during the 36\u00b0C trial (n = 9 trials per genotype).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When unable to smell prey, female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes turn to\u2014and upregulate\u2014heat sensors in their legs, new Science Advances research finds. Fig. 2. Orco mutant mosquitoes display enhanced heat-seeking behavior. (A) Schematic of female body parts that express Orco. (B) Heatmaps showing mean mosquito occupancy for the indicated genotypes on the Peltier (dotted lines) and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}