Olfactory neurons in mosquito antennae (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Olfactory neurons in mosquito antennae

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Olfactory neurons in mosquito antennae activate and glowed blue in normal mosquitoes exposed to common animal scents (top two images). However, mosquitoes with overexpressed AgOR2 receptors had very little response to common animal scents (bottom two images).

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Credit: Sarah Maguire and Christopher Potter, Johns Hopkins Medicine

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