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The treacherous scent of a human

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Mosquitoes' odorant receptors help the insects to find humans and, inadvertently, to transmit malaria. The identification of the odorants that bind to these receptors opens up ways of reducing mosquito biting.

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  1. Walter S. Leal is in the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA. wsleal@ucdavis.edu,

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