Feeding Response in Aedes Aegypti: Stimulation by Adenosine Triphosphate

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Journal Science

Specialty Science

Date 1963 Dec 27

PMID 17834375

Citations 34

Authors

R Galun

Y Avi-Dor

M Bar-Zeev

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Abstract

Taste receptors which evoke ingestion of blood in the mosquito, Aedes aegypti L., are stimulated by adenosine tetraphosphate, adenosine triphosphate, and adenosine monophosphate, in decreasing order. No other nucleotide is effective. Certain chelators can partially simulate the effect of nucleotides. The feeding response is elicited only at an osmotic pressure close to that of blood, and requires the presence of sodium ions.

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