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Flávia P. Franco, Pingxi Xu, B. Harris…·Walter Soares Leal
The paper identifies a single amino acid residue that determines reciprocal specificity between two mosquito odorant receptors for oviposition attractants.
Pingxi Xu, Young-Moo Choo, Sunny An…·Walter Soares Leal
The paper identifies an odorant receptor in mosquitoes that responds to both agonists and antagonists, showing intrareceptor inhibition and testing its repellent activity against DEET.
Pingxi Xu, Xiaolan Wen, Walter Soares Leal
The paper identifies that CO2-sensitive receptors in mosquitoes are activated by CO2 itself, not bicarbonate, using Xenopus oocyte expression assays.
Pingxi Xu, Fangfang Zeng, Robert H. Bedoukian, Walter S. Leal
The paper investigates how DEET and other repellents inhibit mosquito odorant receptors involved in oviposition attractants, showing dose-dependent inhibitory effects and modulation of receptor responses.