Publication: Do apes smell like humans? The role of skin bacteria and volatiles of primates in mosquito host selection
Do apes smell like humans? The role of skin bacteria and volatiles of primates in mosquito host selection
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Verhulst, N. O., Umanets, A., Weldegergis, B. T., Maas, J. P. A., Visser, T. M., Dicke, M., Smidt, H., & Takken, W. (2018). Do apes smell like humans? The role of skin bacteria and volatiles of primates in mosquito host selection. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(22), jeb185959. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.185959
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Anthropophilic mosquitoes are effective vectors of human disease because of their biting preferences. To find their host, these mosquitoes are guided by human odours, primarily produced by human skin bacteria. By analysing the skin bacterial and skin volatile profiles of humans, bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, lemurs and cows, we investigated whether primates that are more closely related to humans have a skin bacterial community and odour profile that is similar to that of humans. We then investigated whether this affected discrimina
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- Verhulst, Niels O
- Umanets, Alexander
- Weldegergis, Berhane T
- Maas, Jeroen P A
- Visser, Tessa M
- Dicke, Marcel
- Smidt, Hauke
- Takken, Willem
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Verhulst, N. O., Umanets, A., Weldegergis, B. T., Maas, J. P. A., Visser, T. M., Dicke, M., Smidt, H., & Takken, W. (2018). Do apes smell like humans? The role of skin bacteria and volatiles of primates in mosquito host selection. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(22), jeb185959. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.185959
