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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2021

Elimination of vision-guided target attraction in Aedes aegypti using CRISPR.

Yinpeng Zhan, Diego Alonso San Alberto, Claire Rusch, Jeffrey A Riffell, Craig Montell

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Insect opsins and evo-devo: what have we learned in 25 years?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yinpeng ZhanDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Diego Alonso San AlbertoDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Claire RuschDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Jeffrey A RiffellDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Craig MontellDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. Electronic address: cmontell@ucsb.edu.
University of Washington · USUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · US

Funding

Unconventional roles for opsinsR01EY008117 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI MONTELL, CRAIG · 1989 to 2022
$8.2M
The olfactory basis of locating nectar sugar sources in Aedes aegypti mosquitoesR01AI148300 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Omar Sultan Akbari, Ronald Jason Pitts · 2021 to 2026
$4.1M
Creation of a new generation of transgenic mosquitoes to control infectious diseaseDP1AI124453 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI MONTELL, CRAIG · 2015 to 2019
$3.8M
Visual and olfactory integration in mosquito behaviorR21AI137947 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI RIFFELL, JEFFREY A · 2019 to 2020
$428k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY008117NIAID NIH HHS DP1 AI124453NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI148300NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI137947
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blood-feeding insects, such as the mosquito, Aedes (Ae.) aegypti, use multiple senses to seek out and bite humans.

Indexed as

AedesAnimalsCuesFemaleHot TemperatureOdorantsSmellcarbon dioxideCRISPRhost seekingmosquitooptomotorrhodopsintarget recognitionvisionwind tunnel

Identifiers

PMID34331858
PMCPMC8478898
OpenAlexW3187681115

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Registered trials

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