Animal Diversity Mosquito Paper

Question 1

Malaria causes over … … human cases and over … … deaths each year.

Answer 1

200 million

770 thousand

Question 2

Infection with plasmodium falciparum causes….

Answer 2

Alterations in behavioural responses to host-derived olfactory stimuli in host seeking female Anopheles gambiae mosquitos

Question 3

P. falciparum-infected mosquitos were significantly … … … to human … than uninfected mosquitos

Answer 3

Significantly more attracted

Odours

Question 4

Both infected and uninfected mosquitos landed significantly more on a substrate … … … … compared to a clean substrate

Answer 4

Emanating human skin odour

Question 5

However, significantly more infected mosquitos … and … on a substrate emanating human skin odour than uninfected mosquitos

Answer 5

Landed, probed

Question 6

In previous studies it has been shown that transmissible infected mosquitos take..

Answer 6

Larger and more frequent blood meals

Than uninfected mosquitos and those infected with non-transmissible oocyst forms

Question 7

Human odours were collected using a…

Answer 7

Nylon matrix

Question 8

What was used to measure the landing responses?

Answer 8

A cage olfactometer

Question 9

It is likely that the mechanism underlying the behavioral difference in infected mosquitoes lies within the … …, possibly mediated by alteration of …-… … (OBPs) or … and … receptors (ORs and IRs; Figure 1B) tuned to host-derived semiochemicals

Answer 9

olfactory system

Odourant-binding proteins

Olfactory, ionotropic

Question 10

Where were the mosquitos from?

Answer 10

Cameroon (Ngousso strain)