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Organization of olfactory centres in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, October 2016
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Title
Organization of olfactory centres in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae
Published in
Nature Communications, October 2016
DOI 10.1038/ncomms13010
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Authors

Olena Riabinina, Darya Task, Elizabeth Marr, Chun-Chieh Lin, Robert Alford, David A. O'Brochta, Christopher J. Potter

Abstract

Mosquitoes are vectors for multiple infectious human diseases and use a variety of sensory cues (olfactory, temperature, humidity and visual) to locate a human host. A comprehensive understanding of the circuitry underlying sensory signalling in the mosquito brain is lacking. Here we used the Q-system of binary gene expression to develop transgenic lines of Anopheles gambiae in which olfactory receptor neurons expressing the odorant receptor co-receptor (Orco) gene are labelled with GFP. These neurons project from the antennae and maxillary palps to the antennal lobe (AL) and from the labella on the proboscis to the suboesophageal zone (SEZ), suggesting integration of olfactory and gustatory signals occurs in this brain region. We present detailed anatomical maps of olfactory innervations in the AL and the SEZ, identifying glomeruli that may respond to human body odours or carbon dioxide. Our results pave the way for anatomical and functional neurogenetic studies of sensory processing in mosquitoes.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 220 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 23%
Researcher 38 17%
Student > Master 27 12%
Student > Bachelor 23 10%
Student > Postgraduate 11 5%
Other 31 14%
Unknown 42 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 75 34%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 37 17%
Neuroscience 32 14%
Physics and Astronomy 4 2%
Environmental Science 4 2%
Other 18 8%
Unknown 52 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 348. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 June 2023.
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#92,271
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#1,355
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