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Mosquitoes taste for blood traced to four types of neurons

It’s one of the world’s deadliest animals, and it has a taste for human blood: the mosquito.

Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and yellow fever that kill at least a half a million people each year. Now researchers are learning what humans taste like to mosquitoes, down to the individual neurons that sense blood’s distinctive, delectable flavor.

Female mosquitoes have a sense of taste that is specially tuned to detect a combination of at least four different substances in blood.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/hhmi-mtf100820.php

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