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Mosquito taste responses to human and floral cues guide biting and feeding.
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- The sensory biology of mosquito gustation.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2026Review
- A Molecular and Cellular Mechanism for Bitter Taste in the mosquitobioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Gustatory avoidance of fatty acids byProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Post-biting behavioral reprogramming underlies reproductive efficiency in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Exploiting nectar and blood feeding cues and phagostimulants to optimise Attractive Targeted Sugar Baits against a sand fly vector of leishmaniasis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- The olfactory neurobiology and chemical ecology of mosquito attraction to plant nutrient sources.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- The sensory arsenal mosquitoes use to find us.Trends in parasitology · 2025Review
- Post-biting behavioral reprogramming underlies reproductive efficiency inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Making scents of mosquito repellents.Trends in parasitology · 2025Review
- Opponent coding mechanisms in Drosophila taste neurons.Chemical senses · 2025Review
- Multi-omics profiling reveals associations between gut microbiota and olfactory gene expression in mosquitoes.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The taste system controls many insect behaviours, yet little is known about how tastants are encoded in mosquitoes or how they regulate critical behaviours. Here we examine how taste stimuli are encoded by Aedes albopictus mosquitoes-a highly invasive disease vector-and how these cues influence biting, feeding and egg laying. We find that neurons of the labellum, the major taste organ of the head, differentially encode a wide variety of human and other cues. We identify three functional classes of taste sensilla with an expansive coding capacity. In addition to excitatory responses, we identify prevalent inhibitory responses, which are predictive of biting behaviour. Certain bitter compounds suppress physiological and behavioural responses to sugar, suggesting their use as potent stop signals against appetitive cues. Complex cues, including human sweat, nectar and egg-laying site water, elicit distinct response profiles from the neuronal repertoire. We identify key tastants on human skin and in sweat that synergistically promote biting behaviours. Transcriptomic profiling identifies taste receptors that could be targeted to disrupt behaviours. Our study sheds light on key features of the taste system that suggest new ways of manipulating chemosensory function and controlling mosquito vectors.
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