We at Easy Ear Training love anything that gets people thinking about exploring their ears, but this page left a lot to be desired. The Oatmeal explained nothing about what the Mosquito tone really is, why only some people can hear it, the damage it might do you, and why—when you clic...
To begin unraveling the function of nootkatone, we first used the standardized World Health Organization (WHO) spatial repellency assay13 (Figure 1C), which prevents direct contact between mosquitoes and the test substance. As a positive control, we screened DEET (5%), which exhibited clear spati...
many of these behaviours occur in the evening or at night, when darkness makes direct observations more challenging. Video-recording makes it possible to visualize mosquito behaviour on a small scale, even during the scotophase, without
Sialokinin was characterized as a tachykinin because of its sequence similarity to the mammalian tachykinins and its ability to dilate the rabbit aortic ring and contract the guinea pig ileum. The vasodilatory activity in the saliva of Ae. aegypti was shown to be endothelium dependent, heat stabl...