This thread remind me of the recent cover story in
Nature---investigator from UC Riverside. He found some blockers and
super agonists for the
mosquito CO2 receptor. Simple stuff like butanal, IIRC.
http://newsroom.ucr.edu/2645
IIRC it was over 10 years ago that someone notice homology between
fruit fly odor receptor and some genes in female skeeters---one down
regulated by blood meal.
I believe over 75 receptors ar enow known --likely some for butylamine
and lactic acid but the biggie seems to be CO2. Some are working on
super agonists for the CO2
receptor and putting it in house paint---voilà, no skeeters at your
barbeque. I'll defer to Dean on the details on any of this.
Frequent skeeter target, Mike
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