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Lysine as a Mosquito Attractant

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PREVIOUS work has indicated that attractive factors other than carbon dioxide are present in the vapour from mammalian blood1 and body exudations2. A distillate obtained from mammalian blood proved highly attractive to Culex pipiens 3. It has been recently reported that a mixture of nine biological acids and bases was attractive to C. pipiens and Anopheles maculipennis at concentrations down to 0.05 per cent, although none of the compounds was attractive when tested individually4.

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BROWN, A., CARMICHAEL, A. Lysine as a Mosquito Attractant. Nature 189, 508–509 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189508a0

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