ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2013
Associative learning in the dengue vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti: avoidance of a previously attractive odor or surface color that is paired with an aversive stimulus.
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- Dengue-mediated changes in the vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae): manipulation of transmission or infection by-product?Journal of medical entomology · 2025Review
- Hydrophobic solution functions as a multifaceted mosquito repellent by enhancing chemical transfer, altering object tracking, and forming aversive memory.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Control methods for invasive mosquitoes ofVeterinary world · 2023Review
- Standardised bioassays reveal that mosquitoes learn to avoid compounds used in chemical vector control after a single sub-lethal exposure.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Considerations for Insect Learning in Integrated Pest Management.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2019Review
- Associative Learning of Food Odor by Social Wasps in a Natural Ecosystem.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Article
- Dengue virus infection changes Aedes aegypti oviposition olfactory preferences.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Effect of DEET-multiple exposures on behavior and life history traits in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae (s.s.).Parasites & vectors · 2018Article
- Olfaction, experience and neural mechanisms underlying mosquito host preference.The Journal of experimental biology · 2018Review
- Modulation of Host Learning in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes.Current biology : CB · 2018Article
- The Olfactory Proboscis Extension Response in the Honey Bee: A Laboratory Exercise in Classical Conditioning.Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Olfactory learning and chemical ecology of olfaction in disease vector mosquitoes: a life history perspective.Current opinion in insect science · 2017Review
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- Factors influencing aversive learning in the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Article
- Learning and Memory in Disease Vector Insects.Trends in parasitology · 2016Review
- Associative learning for danger avoidance nullifies innate positive chemotaxis to host olfactory stimuli in a parasitic wasp.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2014Article
- Olfactory learning and memory in the disease vector mosquito Aedes aegypti.The Journal of experimental biology · 2014Article
- Potential causes and consequences of behavioural resilience and resistance in malaria vector populations: a mathematical modelling analysis.Malaria journal · 2014Article
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Abstract
Associative learning has been shown in a variety of insects, including the mosquitoes Culex quinquefasciatus and Anopheles gambiae. This study demonstrates associative learning for the first time in Aedes aegypti, an important vector of dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya viruses. This species prefers to rest on dark surfaces and is attracted to the odor of 1-octen-3-ol. After training in which a dark surface alone or a dark surface with odor was paired with electric shock, mosquitoes avoided the previously attractive area. The association was stronger when odor was included in training, was retained for at least 60 min but not for 24 h, and was equal for males and females. These results demonstrate the utility of a bulk-training paradigm for mosquitoes similar to that used with Drosophila melanogaster.
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