Why do mosquitos bite people?
Chemistry For Your Life
English - November 10, 2022 09:24 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 254 ratingsChemistry Science science chemistry melissa jam chemistry for your life everyday understand humor storytelling story Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week, Melissa and Jam begin a multi-faceted topic: mosquitos. Now of course mosquitos are insects, so studying them would mostly fall into biology. But there's a lot of chemistry here too. The first question, why do mosquitos bite humans at all? How do they find us, and why do they want to bother us? And perhaps more importantly, how is it related to chemistry? Let's find out.
References from this episode
Mosquito Life Cycle - United States Centers For Disease ControlAedes aegypti Mosquitoes Detect Acidic Volatiles Found in Human Odor Using the IR8a Pathway - Current Biology - Joshua I. Raji, Nadia Melo, John S. Castillo, Sheyla Gonzalez, Valeria Saldana, Marcus C. Stensmyr, Matthew DeGennaroMosquitoes detect human sweat by sniffing for volatile acids - Chemical & Engineering News - Alla KatsnelsonMultimodal Integration of Carbon Dioxide and Other Sensory Cues Drives Mosquito Attraction to Humans - Cell - Conor J. McMeniman, Román A. Corfas, Benjamin J. Matthews, Scott A. Ritchie, Leslie B. Vosshall
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