How Mosquitoes Target Us – Zhilei Zhao & Lindy McBride
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Why do mosquitoes prefer us over other animals? In episode 94, we talk with Zhilei Zhao and Lindy McBride from Princeton about their research into how mosquitoes that can carry dangerous diseases - such as Zika, dengue, West Nile virus and malaria - are able to track us down so quickly while ignoring other warm-blooded animals; an ability they’ve developed in just the past few thousand years. Their preprint manuscript “Chemical signatures of human odour generate a unique neural code in the brain of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes,” was posted to BioRXiv with multiple other co-authors on November 2, 2020.
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Websites and other resources
Zhilei's Twitter, website & Twitter thread on this research
Lindy's Twitter & lab website
Podcast interview with Lindy on Pew's Scientists at Work
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Hosts / Producers
Ryan Watkins & Doug Leigh
How to Cite
Watkins, R., Leigh, D., Zhao, Z., & McBride, L.. (2021). Parsing Science - How Mosquitoes Target Us. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14110274
Music
What’s The Angle? by Shane Ivers
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