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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

The olfactory basis of orchid pollination by mosquitoes.

Chloé Lahondère, Clément Vinauger, Ryo P Okubo, Gabriella H Wolff, Jeremy K Chan, Omar S Akbari, Jeffrey A Riffell

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
69citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
26.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 149 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  12. Making scents of mosquito repellents.Trends in parasitology · 2025
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  15. Recalibrating Olfactory Neuroscience to the Range of Naturally Occurring Odor Concentrations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chloé LahondèreDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
Clément VinaugerDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
Ryo P OkuboDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
Gabriella H WolffDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
Jeremy K ChanDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
Omar S AkbariDivision of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093.ORCID 0000-0002-6853-9884
Jeffrey A RiffellDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; jriffell@uw.edu.
University of Washington · USUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

CRCNS: Decision-making in flying insects using multisensory cuesR01DC013693 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI DICKINSON, MICHAEL H, FAIRHALL, ADRIENNE L · 2013 to 2016
$1.1M
Visual and olfactory integration in mosquito behaviorR21AI137947 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI RIFFELL, JEFFREY A · 2019 to 2020
$428k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI137947NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC013693
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mosquitoes are important vectors of disease and require sources of carbohydrates for reproduction and survival. Unlike host-related behaviors of mosquitoes, comparatively less is understood about the mechanisms involved in nectar-feeding decisions, or how this sensory information is processed in the mosquito brain. Here we show that

Indexed as

AedesAnimalsAppetitive BehaviorArthropod AntennaeBrainDEETFemaleInsect RepellentsMaleMosquito VectorsOdorantsOlfactory PerceptionOlfactory Receptor NeuronsOrchidaceaePollinationDEETInsect RepellentsAedes aegyptimosquitoesnectarolfactionPlatanthera

Identifiers

PMID31871198
PMCPMC6955360
OpenAlexW2998691056

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